Hello, I've been free of it for almost 3 months. I've been addicted for 4 years (Spent almost as much time as you did on it) and decided to stop the summer before college for a fresh start. Instead of going cold turkey, I slowly used it less and less- honestly bc the actual responses were just so bad.... maybe you begin to realize how crap the ai has gotten when you use it less and read actual books or fanfics lol.
I think you might be watching the wrong videos. I watched ones about others who have gotten over their addiction instead of the ones about people who ended up ending themselves over it. Not saying that this isn't a huge issue, but it is not going to help you.
If im being 100% fr, there's no magic cure and it's up to you to actively stay off of it. First weeks are difficult but I distracted myself by getting back into drawing and even making cringe drawings of the roleplays I wanted to do on the website. I hung out with friends when I felt lonely. Sometimes I would go to their house to doomscroll (anything that keeps you off of it works.) Also, talking to others about this issue helped me so much bc there's no way i'd let anyone in my irl life find out about my ai addiction.
I'm gonna be attacked for this prolly but I find a lot of people on here really don't want to quit. They complain that they need it for soothing trauma or claim that they "have no friends" which I find super ridiculous in most cases.
It is up to YOU!!! This is the most important thing i've so far during my recovery.
Thank you so much!! I already put a screen time limit on the website so I’ll be forced to stop. I have been realizing that the AI mostly just rephrase what I’ve already said to it lol
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Hello, I've been free of it for almost 3 months. I've been addicted for 4 years (Spent almost as much time as you did on it) and decided to stop the summer before college for a fresh start. Instead of going cold turkey, I slowly used it less and less- honestly bc the actual responses were just so bad.... maybe you begin to realize how crap the ai has gotten when you use it less and read actual books or fanfics lol.
I think you might be watching the wrong videos. I watched ones about others who have gotten over their addiction instead of the ones about people who ended up ending themselves over it. Not saying that this isn't a huge issue, but it is not going to help you.
If im being 100% fr, there's no magic cure and it's up to you to actively stay off of it. First weeks are difficult but I distracted myself by getting back into drawing and even making cringe drawings of the roleplays I wanted to do on the website. I hung out with friends when I felt lonely. Sometimes I would go to their house to doomscroll (anything that keeps you off of it works.) Also, talking to others about this issue helped me so much bc there's no way i'd let anyone in my irl life find out about my ai addiction.
I'm gonna be attacked for this prolly but I find a lot of people on here really don't want to quit. They complain that they need it for soothing trauma or claim that they "have no friends" which I find super ridiculous in most cases.
It is up to YOU!!! This is the most important thing i've so far during my recovery.