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Originally Posted by Steve Bozek
An NFL player, Qinn Pitcock, lost his NFL career due to video game addiction. It took him a few years to recover, and ended up in arena football.
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That's right, i had forgotten about that.
Jim Rome did that story and a really in-depth interview with him a few years back. It was a fascinating education for myself as I had no idea how depraved the video game thing could make you.
Here's an excerpt from an ESPN story years ago.
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"It was a rash decision," he said. "As soon as I made it, I wanted to play right away, but I was scared they didn't want me back."
Free from football, things really got bad. Pitcock was playing Xbox online up to 18 hours a day and sleeping for maybe five or six hours. His drug of choice was "Call of Duty," whose franchise has generated $6 billion worldwide. He lost touch with friends. He ignored his family when they tried to reach out to him. He became a complete hermit.
"The only way I could get my endorphins was by playing video games," he said.
He kept up that 18-hour routine for months. He tried to quit but couldn't.
"I would break the games, try to get rid of them," he said, "but I couldn't stop. I'd say, 'Quinn, what are you doing?' Physically, I could not put down a video game."
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That story also goes into how widespread and somewhat common this addiction is.
Worth a read.
http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/8...-deeper-issues