My off the computer challenge

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da_illest101

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Alright so I'm making a small journal about a personal challenge that I'm making to let my neck, back, arms and other parts of my body. I called it off the freaking computer challenge.

I'm addicted on being online, in front of the computer. I spent countless hours and very often full days on it. With time it got the best of my body. I have been injured for nearly a year and my condition only got worse. I have two small herniated discs in my neck which are blocking some of the nerves on the right side of my body from the head to toe. To make matters worse the symptoms are starting to appear on the left side of my body as well.

I tried my best to stay away from the computer but never could survive more than four days without it. Well now I got no choice, I have to go cold turkey on it.

This is a no computer challenge not a no internet challenge ( Should think of doing that someday though) I will still have access to the internet on other devices such as my phone and my ps3. In case of emergency I will use my parents computer, which I can't spend all the time I want on it.

I'm hurt yet I don't even stop, that's what 11 years of being online will do to someone.

THE CHALLENGE

It goes like this : I have to last 21 days without it or my body heal completely

to be more precise I have to last a minimum of 21 days. The goal is for my body to heal. That means if my body doesn't heal before 21 days or at 21 days the challenge must go on until I fully heal or that school starts.

Challenge extender: My parents and my sister are gonna have a verdict after the 21 days assuming that my body did heal. If my lifestyle is similar meaning I still don't do anything else than staying online, they will have the right to extend my challenge for a couple more weeks.

Goals:

-Let my body recover
-Lose or learn how to control the time I spent online
-develop other coping skills that won't have a negative effect on me
-exercise more
-do other things that I wanted to do but never ended up doing
-stop watching porn or at least greatly reduce the amount I watch
-adopt ways to be more comfortable in front of the computer
-find ways to spend less time online
-be computer free or not abusing it until school starts

I don't expect this will change my life completely, it won't cure any mental problems I have, but at least it will cure my physical pain.

So today is day 0. I'm currently writing this on my computer. Right now I'm taking files that I need like my CV, music, cleaning my history. If I miss anything that I need than to bad for me. Gonna give my mouse and keyboard to my sister.

The challenge didn't even start yet and I'm already regretting it. This will by far the toughest challenge since my only using a mouse challenge a couple weeks ago. It's gonna be horrible :D
 
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da_illest101

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So today is day 0. I'm currently writing this on my computer. Right now I'm taking files that I need like my CV, music, cleaning my history. If I miss anything that I need than to bad for me. Gonna give my mouse and keyboard to my sister.

The challenge didn't even start yet and I'm already regretting it. This will by far the toughest challenge since my only using a mouse challenge a couple weeks ago. It's gonna be horrible :D
 
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Kat

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you're brave :) I think once I finish my computer course I'll try the same well at least cut down my usage. ::eek::
 
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da_illest101

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So I just survived day 1, wasn't too hard, it's just one day. I know that I can survive a few more days without effort. I would assume around day 4 I would start to have mood swings and become inpatient about everything
 
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da_illest101

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Ok just survived day 2 and 3. Wasn't bad either. Nothing special to say about since my phone and ps3 seems to be quite the balance. It's not as good or as fast as my computer but the job gets done. My main concern is the lack of dopamine in my body due to the lack of triple x content, it's driving me insane and putting me on edge about anything and everything.
 
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Foxface

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If I lived in the country or whereever, I would be outside I lot more. I can't wait until I move. If my Dad puts up a privacy fence in the backyard, I can go out clothesfree, I might.
 
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da_illest101

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Aspie said:
If I lived in the country or whereever, I would be outside I lot more. I can't wait until I move. If my Dad puts up a privacy fence in the backyard, I can go out clothesfree, I might.
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I seriously don't have an excuse for not going outside. I should go do bicycle in the forest or the cycling road, but I got bored of it. Barely went last year, didn't even go this year. I'm becoming too lazy. My injury is still there, but it's in better shape than it been in the past year. Where are you moving?
 
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da_illest101

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So today is the 9th day . My injury is getting better the doctor told me I should restart training and lift weight, nothing too heavy, just to get some strenght back, but my will to train is none existant. All i do is walk around my equipment instead of doing something.

The amount of time spent online is still high, but I starting to do other things that I didn't do in years like watching tv... it's still a work in progress.

Porn has been greatly, but greatly reduce. It's amazing how I went from watching an absurb amount daily to not even an hour in a week. It's too sloppy on my phone, unpraticable on the ps3 ( though it's douable) and I don't have enough free time on other people's computer to bother.

It's very hard but I got to continu no matter what
 
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da_illest101

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So I think it's time for me to add another level of difficulty to this challenge. I will now lose the internet on my phone for most of the day. I find that i'm not changing much if I always have internet access. So yea I'll have a more limited access to the online. Oh man it's gonna be hard
 
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da_illest101

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Well in two days it's gonna be 21 days. I trully never thought I would survive this long. As time goes by the worse it got and now I feel like exploding lol. Unfortunately for me my arm, my neck and my back are still not good, so the challenge will most likely not end this thursday. I'm assuming it won't heal by the time I restart school on august 27th it won't heal.

I'm wondering if I learn self control by now
 
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da_illest101

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One day leff and it's gonna be 21 day. I seriously doubt I'll be able to continue the challenge past that. I miss my computer to damn much
 
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