I want to start off and say that as a wife and fellow gamer I am concerned. I’m concerned for my husband.

I love him dearly. But I believe that video games have really harmed him in a sense. He’s always been an big gamer, all consoles, everything and anything. He’s been gaming since a small child. In highschool he would skip school and play all day and night. And he’s even trying to become a top streamer, dream is to quit his job and stay home and game, etc. But that’s all he does. He really has no life outside of games. 

He continually is upset/depressed because his life feels so stagnant and unsuccessful (I don’t know what word to use.) I’m worried for him, because when I suggest taking a break or that games are not his life and he can do other things he simply just denies it and says he’s fine. Which he’s not.

I’ve loved him for 10 years and still do but there’s something wrong. I’ve tried researching and got little to nothing. The only thing that makes a smidge of sense is that he’s out gamed himself and his brain, it’s become such a constant for him that they’re no longer stimulating but he’s not realizing this.

The other day I was asleep with our child and he yelled so loudly at a game it startled me awake. I began crying.

Very often he begins to feel as if his life is meaningless. And I do my best to support him. I try to be there for him. And I want him to get help but he doesn’t budge.

I understand loving video games. I do too. But what do y’all do when or if you ever get to this point?

I’m sorry if my post is scrambled I’m on a very short break at work and I’m tired.