j.l. thomas

got a question for you folk who've been around here for
awhile. never thought i'd ask this, n my stomach's tyin
itself up in knots thinkin bout it...which is silly, cuz i
never cared what other ppl thought bout this b4, so why
should i now?

but anyway...cuz of somethin my T said this week - something
good, about me, that i don't feel right sharing here. may
eventually, but just kinda huggin it to my heart for right
now - i'm wondering how others mighta seen this...

and dave, you don't get to answer this one. though if you
have a convincing enough reason, i might change my mind.

so, like, last year, when i was playing everqwest so much
(10-12 hrs a day, most days) for a couple months, n then
dave took a stand n told me to quit or get out...one of the
big questions that dave and i couldn't agree on was whether
i was addicted to the game, or whether it was an
obsessive-compulsive thing.

....and i know addiction's sometimes considered an
obsessive-compulsive thing, too, but...

oh, btw, i have a degree in alcoholism counseling, so in
*theory* i should be able to answer the question
myself...but i'm waaaaaaaaay too close to it.

so...anyone have any thoughts? it's not gonna bother me,
cuz of what my T said, if the general concensus is that i
was addicted.

it's also not gonna bother me, cuz i haven't played it in
well over a year.

i can provide more info, if it'd be helpful, and if the
newcomers to the group wanna get in on it, too. it's just
that some of it's still painful to me to dredge up, so i
won't if i don't have to.

but it might be good for me to do that anyway.

jt

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"It is astonishing, really, how many thoroughly mature,
well-adjusted grown-ups harbor a teddy bear -- which is
perhaps why they are thoroughly mature and well-adjusted."
-- Joseph Lempa