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by valarauca1 4198 days ago
In short you have to realize WoW is a drug. Now I say this as an ex-player, who had a very long complicated battle with depression and parental abuse. WoW makes it easy to escape and hide into a world where its very easy to get rewarded for what feels like fun, but is actually hours of your life.

The game rewards you like rewarding a dog to shit outside, or do funny tricks. The rewards become spaced further out over time conditioning you to work harder for the same reward. Its very easy to stay motivated when a green bar shows you how far you are from the next reward. Its just as easy to stay motivated as you slam your face into Heroic Ragnaros for the 246th time straight, because we're getting him to P4 and well its just RNG at that point if we keep it up because its just a matter of keeping focused. Depression is bad. I've been there and for well over 6 years I attempted to hide in another world to avoid it.

What you have to do is accept that slow action is still action. When ever I catch myself sliding back into older/bad habits I find its often good to mediate on the why you are doing that. A quote I've really fallen in love with is:

"One can be deceived by three types of laziness: of indolence, which is the wish to procrastinate; the laziness of inferiority, which is doubting your capabilities; and the laziness that is attachment to negative actions, or putting great effort into non-virtue." - the Dalai Lama.

Medication and Therapy can be very useful.