Post-gaming depression.

[PureChaos]

as long as i enjoy it, i have no regrets

 

[The Procrastinated End]

After I play for over half the day in one sitting I get a little feeling that I could have done so much more in that time.

 

[Xyliss]

I feel like that whenever I sleep in and not so much when I play games for hours considering those are the two main things I do at the minute

 

[topbloke]

Mate, life is just how you waste time waiting to die. Did you enjoy that wasted time?
If you did then it wasn't wasted

 

[MiracleOfSound]

No. Never.

Life is short, it's there to be enjoyed.

 

[coldshadow]

the only time I feel a "depression" after gaming is when I just finished a game that was just so epic and grand that none of my other games will be good enough for awhile.

 

[Serioli]

Only time I felt like that I was lucky to overhear, soon after, some people discussing watching the 'soap-chain'. (Simpsons), Hollyoaks, Emmerdale, Eastenders, Coronation street or The Bill, and others. (I forget the exact line-up). Basically the group of people had sat in front of the TV from 6pm until about 11pm.

So it's a choice of gaming which I always enjoy for a few hours or watching random stuff which I may or may not enjoy, for 5 or more hours, basically out of habit.

I'd rather be a gamer.....

 

[Doclector]

What better am I going to do? I read, I watch movies, but really, the reachable outside world holds little more than the occasional hour spent wandering around the local shops.

 

[I Max95]

i have fits of that
but it happens more when i write fanfiction
but it goes away after a minute or two and im back to my normal nerdy self

 

[meticadpa]

Nah, as long as I enjoy spending the time, it's time well spent.

I got gaming depression after finishing ME2 though, that shit was epic and I wanted to continue playing.

Same with the original ME.

 

[Niryain]

The only time in recent memory I've felt kinda depressed after a game was Mass Effect 2, both because I realized that the great experience was over, and that I wanted to live with the consequences of my actions in the final mission. I lost a few people, and knowing that I could have done better made me feel down for an hour or two after I finished.

 

[TraceurRyuk]

No, never. But I usually game socially and I'm doing a lot else with my life. Maybe you just feel that because you aren't doing much else with your life?

 

[Ryank1908]

No, I feel great. I like to stagger what I do. I prefer to have a big gaming session after I've been out all day or gotten a lot of work done, and keep that cycle going instead of doing everything randomly or in small amounts. Makes the work feel satisfying, the gaming feel relaxing, and the going out feel eventful.

 

[Project_Xii]

I never feel depressed just after spending a long period gaming. It's my hobby and my passion, I don't give a crap what others think I should be doing with my day.

I get depressed when I finish a game I really really love and have spent the better part of a few days/weeks playing. Like Witcher or Risen or the Mass Effects. After they're done, I just sort of wander around aimlessly, wishing I could jump back into that world, but knowing there's not much left there for me now and I really need to more on and experience other things. Which I do, eventually, but there's always a period of sad apathy in there somewhere.

 

[Yureina]

Nope. If it was worthless, I would not have done it. I always get something out of my gaming experiences: fun. That's all that really matters.

 

[Kragg]

Am I the only one who gets a really terrible, soul-crushing sense of nihilism and self-disgust after a gaming session? You know, the 'I have just spent three hours of my life pretending to be an elf, what the hell am I doing with my life' revelation? Oddly enough, this doesn't happen after I finish a book, or even sleep through half the best part of a day.

I'm seriously considering giving up the hobby, because it really seems to be messing with my head and turning me irrational. And it's not as if I play excessively [2-3 hours a day is about average, but it's probably less than that].

For instance, are there any seasoned WoW players here who have sunk hundreds of hours into a character? I have a friend who is a recovered WoW-junkie, and he said he never really felt anything along these lines.

Your thoughts? Also, excuse my terrible writing.

Edit: I don't play, have never played and will never play an MMO. I've played around 80 hours of Mass Effect [1&2], but that's probably my most intensive.
It's a kind of washed-out feeling, as another poster has said. And I do get out of the house quite often, to hang around town or go hiking.

maybe you should quit the, no hobby should make you feel this way, hell even feeling that miserable at a job would make me quit

maybe it's the elf !