This is Your Intervention
“I’m here because at some point I handed my life over to a machine.” Imagine this situation: Over the past few years, you’ve spent so much time playing online games that playing online games is the only thing that can really take your mind off how bad you feel about spending so much time playing online games. Maybe your thing isn’t games — maybe it’s something else like email, chat, social media, or say, gathering online news stories. But it’s probably not that hard to imagine your tech drug of choice evolving from a manageable habit to a full-blown addiction. If that happens, you might want to head to ReStart. From GQ’s Ben Dolnick: Video-Game Rehab: It’s Real, It’s Awkward, and It Might Be Our Future.