Gaming With Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

This is driving me nuts, I can't enjoy video games like I used to be when I was a kid (and even then, I suffered the same bullshit but less frequent). Every time I get my hands on a new game, I never get to finish it as I'm constantly replaying the first few levels in search for "Perfection". It's getting worse as now I can only play video games on days that fall on even numbers, don't ask me why, I just do.

This is insane, I even went half a year without playing games to sort of "detox" myself and start this new year clean and willing, but no matter what I do, I'm a victim of my own bullshit.
Are there any anons out there that have suffered the same for years? If so, did you ever overcome said problem? And if so, how did you do it?

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Oh right, I forgot, Holla Forums is where video game related memes go into.

What does that even mean what do you mean 'perfection' and what sort of games are you playing

instead of trying to minmax the way you play, just minmax your stats and get the best gear you can get your hands on
but don't start the level again just because some enemy smacked you for one damage

You don't need video game help
This has nothing to do with video games you legitimately have a mental disorder and are asking random fags on an image board to help you.

Ya gotta get those cheevos man.

I don't know, depends on the game, I either gotta get all the secrets, or I gotta do it under a certain time, it's driving me nuts. Because if I don't give in to those desires, then I can't fully enjoy the game, it's like it takes over me.

That's what I tell myself

It is derived from my autism, so I thought Holla Forums would be the perfect place for that.

You should see a medical professional, like Dr. Reginald Brownpill.

I'm like that but with usernames. My username changes so often, and it's not enough to simply change my steam name. I have to change the login too. I'm not satisfied with anything I come pu with, and I never will be.

Replace video games with any other activity and see whether or not you have a legitmate mental illness.
You have a mental disorder, while I'm not telling you to go get prescription from Dr. Goldstein this isn't normal even for autism.

I've got other hobbies outside of gaming, like fishing, but fishing does not allow you to restart an entire session in order to do it better, so I have a better time rolling with what happens.

I'd love to help you, but it's all a problem that exists in your mind and body, and I have access to neither. No one here does. You must think yourself how to stop that shit. If anyone can help you, maybe a specialist?


If jewgle is right, it's not autism in the slightest, it's likely serotonin deficiency combined with some upbringing/minor mental problems that could be easily fixable through therapy. Go to a specialist for your own fucking sake, the even day thing is a dead giveaway something is seriously wrong.

If jewgle is right, it's not autism in the slightest, it's likely serotonin deficiency combined with some upbringing/minor mental problems that could be easily fixable through therapy.

That helps, thanks, I'll see what I can do.

Just stop it. It takes willpower. Just fucking stop it and learn to accept it. It's similar to addiction.
t. Someone who had compulsions but not as serious

Meant to green-text your post.

You're welcome and I wish you all the best, user. I'd tell you to try to turn your dedication into getting rid of such compulsions, but I doubt it works that way.

You should fuck his tight ass in the meantime until he recovers

And how are you so well informed about the state of his ass? If you're not and are merely assuming, why the fascination? Explain yourself you gay faggot. I bet you masturbate to the thought of kissing asses you humongous handholding homosexual.

Just suppress the urge to restart things. I used to have a mild tendency to do the same thing (keep restarting) with a few games which ruined a few of them for me, so I just gritted my teeth and ignored the gut feeling of wanting to restart and eventually no longer wanted to.

Habits like this are the same as people addicted to eating weird shit or something. There's no miracle cure and medication will just turn you into a fogey. You have to just force yourself to stop. Willpower is the best cure for bad habits.

Thats not OCD but what you should do is have a time limit where you cant spend an hour combing a level and you cant replay levels to 100% them unless a pivotal story missions requires a certain collectible to unlock a secret ending or something.

Try some roguelikes, OP. They never go perfectly, so your obsession shouldn't be fed there.

user, games allow you to experience things in many different ways, they're different from movies in many, many ways but especially because of this.

If you just restart and get a "great" score you're going to experience the level the exact same way every time. If you go off and actually adventure, you will see and experience things that the ones that railroad themselves to one single movement path with the same weapon at the same time intervals etc. do not see and experience.
Sometimes, i even go into games doing things that will likely make me lose deliberately, so that i can learn new and interesting things, and i use them to my own advantage, in multiplayer as well.

If you look at things from the perspective of the whole, you should realize. Rather than saying "oh i restarted so it's a different/new/the REAL timeline this time", and instead you see yourself as if someone was sitting next to you and you're playing games together, wouldn't restarting 22 times at the end of the level be seen as more losing than running into an unfortunately strong enemy at a bad time, but still beating them and completing the level?
If you're just playing it the same way over and over again you might as well watch a movie.

OCD can meta itself and prevent you from escaping it almost consciously, because it uses your mind to fuck yourself, so just realize that unless you magically out-meta it and cure yourself, giving into it is, essentially, in almost every case, losing. Pick up the game, play it, and focus on some random bullshit, like how satisfying it is to blow enemies up, or how nice the skybox is, or how your current sub-optimal driving style might very well become a new technique, or maybe your character is just retarded at rallying and you're witnessing their gitting gud firsthand. Make a story or something, autism is fucking powerful so if you're going to use it, use it for your own fun. Make it your bitch, your plaything, not the other way around.

I do think this thread is at least semi-vidya related because some games feed OCD almost as if it was a conscious design decision.
Also what said, play some games that don't have those stupid railroading ideals put in by devs. Dark Souls is unironically good in this regard, too. You might die a few times but there is no counter so it stops nagging you very soon.

Play games that are based around online matches i guess. Take something like tf2 or cod for example. You cant restart but you can hop into another match and try to get better. Thats what the game is about and i think maybe you'll feel less stressed playing. I really dont know though, i cant relate to this at all