How World Of Warcraft Ruined my life.

I started playing World Of Warcraft with the 10 day trial in early January, and Just stopped Today. It started as a few hours after school I would play and level up with my brother, gradually it became from the time I woke until I went to bed and it was my life, I did nothing else. I had stopped getting on AIM and Myspace because I was too busy with WoW, It had turned into my life I just had to get a 70. My parents eventually limited me to taking breaks every few hours, but I eventually ignored that and started playing 12 hours a day with breaks for lunch and dinner. When I had gotten to level 55 me and my brother were getting frustrated at not being able to kill a boss, he screamed at the computer and I got told to get off. I chose not to and said I have to get out and hearthstone back, I can't just stop here. That was when I was limited to 2 hours on weekdays and 4 on weekends, that eventually got ignored also. Things got progressively worse until about a month ago. It was when I went to a party and met some amazing new friends. I gradually started playing less after seeing my guild leader and good friend had stopped playing for a month, when he came back we mad a new guild and he now is only on a few times a week for about an hour if that. I started only doing a few quests, stopped and did maybe 4 battlegrounds for a few hours. Today I had my subscription cancelled, I realized a few weeks ago what it had done and how I didn't have a social life outside of it barely. I could have gotten a girlfriend before I started WoW but chose WoW over it. I don't regret cancelling my subscription one bit, my friends are more important than a stupid game. There are 3 people I know who have also been affected by the game. One was my cousins ex boyfriend of 7 months, they were deep in love and he had quit WoW for her, he started playing it and lying, using her and WoW as to blame. No time for the Girl or anything but WoW.There's more after this, but if you wish to know IM me via AIM MxxCxxRxxNick, it is personal and we don't like to talk about it. Next is a friend I had from school, he was nice to me and everyone at the lunch table and one day wile giving out a dollar I saw he had a WoW gamecard. He said he used to play but stopped for 4 months since he needed a break, he later had 4 70's restored and got two more restored from his old account. Eventually after starting playing he got into more fights, and people started hating him. A few weeks ago he lost it all he told one of our friends Josh people like him make me want to bring in a gun and shoot everyone, he was soon after in a lot of trouble and is expelled. He had a mom who used to abuse him, but started taking medication last year. Finally my brother is affected by this game. He got me addicted to it, He needed me to help him with quests, show him where to go and do instances with him. I had stopped wanting to play a month ago but he made me get on and quest. Recently he started getting violent with the game, throwing the mouse yelling at the game and saying rude words at it. He is addicted to the game badly, it has turned him into a complete a**hole. when he cancelled my subscription he was getting mad because I ruined wow for him, he doesn't know where to go in quests or how to take on a beast 1v1, I did all the fighting he just sat there and clicked one spell the whole time. He got mad at me a few hours ago about it. He used to be a cool person, nice to me we talked about random things, listened to music and watched tv together. Now his whole day is sleep, eat and play WoW. It's horrible what and addiction this game is. He doesn't feel like doing anything around the house and when my dad asks him to mow the grass he gets all ticked off and has an angry tone in his voice.

Bottom line is WoW is an addiction, whether you make it yourself, or someone else does. If you want to start playing the game that's okay, but please don't give up things in you're life because of it. Don't make it an addiction, go out and do something with your life before it's too late. I have luckily quit before things got horrible in my life, but it has still torn me apart mentally and my relationships have suffered because of it. This is my story of how World Of Warcraft ruined my life, If you have a similar experience please share yours. When World Of Warcraft Wrath of the Lich King comes out I might start playing casually, but will not play for 12 hours of my day straight. My life has been shredded and torn apart because of a World of Warcraft addiction, but I was able to repair my relationships before things were unrepairable.(This took me over an hour to type, I appreciate you reading)

Please listen to this song - It has deep meaning to me, and relates to this problem for me [link]