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Originally Posted by Stonewallx39
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So your brain creates pathways which allow you to efficiently access portions that are often in use. If you’ve set these to EQ and connect to things that have strong emotional (loyalty to a guild or group of friends) or physiological impacts (endorphins for progress/upgrades) your brain will constantly pull you back.
If you want to reduce eq but not lose it you need to retrain your brain. This can be done by quitting cold turkey but it sounds like you don’t want that. Plan specific play sessions and stick to that and resetting your brain synapsis could help with your challenges.
You need to stop stimuli which drag you in. Turn off your discord notifications, and don’t go in and read messages. Stop visiting the forum/wiki. Don’t watch EQ videos on YouTube or elseware.
Anytime your feel yourself going down the EQ draw, tell yourself no and redirect. Remember you have a session planned and EQ can be your full focus then. Identify what triggered you craving for EQ and avoid that in the future.
It’s not easy and lord know we all struggle but if you apply some or all of this you can get it back on track. I’d also recommend setting a RL goal line xx time per day playing an instrument or working out. The accomplishment and pride of your progress will help to soften the feelings of missing out (FOMO) of EQ.
Good luck brother. You got this!
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Actual real good advice here btw.
Doing other cool things helps too. It's a lot easier to kick an addiction if you have some good hobbies that don't reinforce it.