Someone else has to have gone through this:

I recently decided after 5 years of it to abandon my predominant game fixation: World of Warcraft. I've literally been in 'Azeroth' longer than I've been a citizen of my current country. My reasons: social decay, I felt I was giving up on living my life to play video games (not that there's anythign wrong with that, just in moderation). Having a passionate hobby is one thing, but when you pass on advancing your career because the offered job might conflict with your 'raiding' schedule, I'd say its something to regret in 10 years.

Unfortunately now I'm all messed up because I've manually chucked out something that, at minimum, consumed 2-4 hours of my day every day or the half a decade.

Has anyone gone through this kind of gamer's withdrawal? Any advice or encouragement would help. Oh and 'I always feel better after buying forum members things on Rendo' is not a valid answer.'

Oh, and 'smoke a pack' and 'drink yourself numb' aren't valid options. Islam isn't very well engineered for depressed video game junkies. lol.