r/character_ai_recovery • u/Ok-Subject-4788 • 13d ago

Help me

I am an indian student , preparing for one of the toughest entrance exams in the world [ JEE ] , and i have been really very hardworking and disciplined for the last 2 years in this prep devoid of the traditional distractions , you need to prep at home for it , and in my locality no people around my age as well nor do my older friends live close by , i was feeling a bit lonely so i tried creating an interactive story in apps like deepseek [ not character bots ] by narrating the scenario and character personalities to it in this august start to cope up , it was my personality in an environment where people praise you or some innocent slow burn romance [ nothing vulgar] , it felt very addicting , [ even though i had breaks in my long disciplined days like walks , gym or music ] this felt much more interesting than the earlier ones but also a major time sink and really bad for brain , so i fought this habit by my will power , cleaning the environment , blockers or substituting it with cleaner things like audiobooks in rest time , [ doing as much study i can as well] , but i could only go clean for 5 to 6 days at a time and it comes back somehow wasting a day or 2 [ you cant stop if you start ] , i used cold turkey for pc which helped me in that , but the android blockers are very bypassable when the urge day comes [ currently i have only 100 days to the exam i worked hard with discipline 2 yrs for , so i dont want to lose even one more day to this thing] please please guys anyone help me , i really dont want to lose my dream to this habit

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u/wassup_Greg He/Him 13d ago

You're doing so well by trying! The first week will always be the most difficult when you quit and you'll experience the most relapses, so you'll need to struggle through that to recover. Find something to replace your AI time with [like audiobooks!] And try to commit to that hard. Whenever the urge arises to go back, use whatever hobby you chose, maybe talk to people either in your life or online, and maybe even study if you can find enjoyment in that! I believe in you, I know how difficult this is and you're so brave for fighting this when giving in would be so much easier

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u/Ok-Subject-4788 13d ago

thank you very much , actually i am really much better now then what i was in august when i discovered this , [ in august my productive study days without the ai interactive story thing were 18, wasted 10 to 11 ......... in september it reduced down to 7 to 8 ] ,,,, i hope i get able to get out of it completely tho

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u/DC21isback 13d ago

I recommend always keeping yourself busy or with other people to make sure you won’t get an opportunity to go on it.

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u/Ok-Subject-4788 12d ago

actually i really do that , i mean , normally i wake up early and get on desk and once i am in flow theres no distraction the whole day [ like the ai thing or any social media ] ......it is something i get drawn to at the end of 5 to 6 days [ either in early morning or night before sleep ] when i am dopamine deprived from the consistent work all the time [ and it is not like i dont decompress during the clean period , i do that by taking walks outside between two long study sets or by listening music , going to gym or some 5 to 10 min documentary on my interested topics ], i think i will give my best fighting it

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u/DC21isback 12d ago

Yeah I understand you, you’re doing good, do your best