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<blockquote data-quote="TedCruz" data-source="post: 1014205" data-attributes="member: 95937">You can&#039;t, you have to talk to someone.&nbsp; Go to an alcoholic Anonymous meeting I know it&#039;s not booze but it&#039;s addiction.&nbsp; You can talk or listen to addicts and how they deal with things.&nbsp; Disabling gaming will not work for you since you have already tried it by locking your accounts and yet you still re-enabled them.&nbsp; So you will install games no matter what safeties you place on your system since you are fighting yourself.&nbsp; You took the first step, you have acknowledged that you have a problem.&nbsp; Now take the next steps and actually enlist people to help you.&nbsp; You can either go to addiction meetings, talk groups or go for talk therapy.Best of luck!edit:&nbsp; You can try Shadow Defender and always keep your system in Shadow mode.&nbsp; Enable shadow mode when all games are removed.&nbsp; That way each time you want to play the game you will have to install it from scratch and upon a reboot the game will be deleted.&nbsp; This will add another layer of difficulty for you.My best advice for you is this:&nbsp; Step away from your computer.&nbsp; DO NOT USE IT FOR TWO WEEKS.&nbsp; The desire to play the game will fade and become an echo.&nbsp;&nbsp; I was also a gamer, I personally love strategy games and civilization.&nbsp; Anyone who ever played civilization knows that &quot;ok just one more turn&quot; will become &quot;oh crap it&#039;s 3 am and I have work in 3 hours!&quot;.&nbsp; Once I got a kid, I had to spend all my time with the kid leaving me no time to play any game.&nbsp; Now even when I have free time I just don&#039;t feel like playing anything.&nbsp; I got myself a steamdeck with intention of being able to pick it up and play a game anytime I want.&nbsp; In reality I am using it more to tweak and code than play games.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TedCruz, post: 1014205, member: 95937"] You can't, you have to talk to someone. Go to an alcoholic Anonymous meeting I know it's not booze but it's addiction. You can talk or listen to addicts and how they deal with things. Disabling gaming will not work for you since you have already tried it by locking your accounts and yet you still re-enabled them. So you will install games no matter what safeties you place on your system since you are fighting yourself. You took the first step, you have acknowledged that you have a problem. Now take the next steps and actually enlist people to help you. You can either go to addiction meetings, talk groups or go for talk therapy. Best of luck! edit: You can try Shadow Defender and always keep your system in Shadow mode. Enable shadow mode when all games are removed. That way each time you want to play the game you will have to install it from scratch and upon a reboot the game will be deleted. This will add another layer of difficulty for you. My best advice for you is this: Step away from your computer. DO NOT USE IT FOR TWO WEEKS. The desire to play the game will fade and become an echo. I was also a gamer, I personally love strategy games and civilization. Anyone who ever played civilization knows that "ok just one more turn" will become "oh crap it's 3 am and I have work in 3 hours!". Once I got a kid, I had to spend all my time with the kid leaving me no time to play any game. Now even when I have free time I just don't feel like playing anything. I got myself a steamdeck with intention of being able to pick it up and play a game anytime I want. In reality I am using it more to tweak and code than play games. [/QUOTE]

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