When I used to stimulate my brain with computer games excessively. I used experience legit panic attacks upon time when I was about to stop playing it.
I don’t claim to know what’s going on in brain at this point, but I found that the process of detaching from extremely addictive activity used to cause my brain to nearly explode.
Could there be something wrong with dopamine receptors and that there was some sort of disconnect between logical brain and subconscious and why it would perceive that sudden drop in dopamine as a threat rather than take it as simple logical fact that it’s time to stop playing video game. It used to invoke such a powerful and intense panic attacks it was ridiculous.
I’m wondering if this is how people feels when they go through various withdrawal process.
I’m going to stick with withdrawal being common symptom when you stop these dopamine inducing activities. And that I just need to ride it a long until it subsides and my thinking will normalize again.
No doubt about it. The substance abuse is really severe and debilitating form of any addiction. Internet gaming disorder is also in DSM-5. Which makes it also recognizable by official bodies.
WOW, it really is in the DSM 5. One more reason to not look too deeply in the DSM V. The way they diagnose severe mental disorders are barely covered in the DSM-V. DSM-V is merely a checklist or just completely unreliable. Internet Gaming Disorder. Yeah, right. What pdoc would ever diagnose a patient with that label? ROFL ROFL ROFL