Nintendo Ruins Lives: Arlo vs. Alec Andersson.

okay so first things first i'm not deleting the channel i'm i'm not gonna die i'm not uh nothing bad happened to be completely honest i've just been having some uh uh mental health issues i used to be heavily addicted to video games and the minimum amount that i would clock in daily was at least 12 hours and this was as early as at the age of 12. i've been struggling with anxiety and and stuff like that and uh and i have been on medication and i think for most young guys and most young men video games is probably the one obstacle that is hardest to overcome and the one obstacle that is hindering your kind of self-improvement success overall it is something that takes a lot of time out of your day whether you want to realize this or not and so therefore i want to tell you to well quit video games but i know because i've been through this experience myself i this year was when i started anxiety medication and uh really really really really been helping like oh my gosh so much helping like it's it's really really really incredible how much that's been doing for me and helping me beginning of the year approximately started having insomnia like just not sleeping i i thought it must be the anxiety and all that stuff i thought that must be most of it just just not sleeping well just the brain just won't let go and just fall into a deep sleep just like waking up all night sometimes feeling like i don't even sleep and um this went on for a really long time if you want to lead a good and happy life playing video games is the one thing that'll put you the furthest away from that and here's why so two years ago i suffered from a pretty severe or not a severe but a severe enough concussion that would put me out of school for about a month or two and during this time i didn't have much to do being like the dumbest teenager i was so i would spend my days just playing video games and like when you hear playing video games you think about maybe he was playing uh good games like call of duty or world of warcraft or assassin's creed or something that'll uh that that's kind of made on a big budget but no i was playing a game called crunker which is basically a combination of minecraft and cs go and it was something i just did during the time but i got quite good at it and it was quite addicting and as i said i used just my entire day [ __ ] grinding this game i got quite good at it but when i hopped off i would often i remember this one night in specific i hopped off at like 12 am or p.m oh it's am i am and i was ready to go to bed and i brushed my teeth did all that [ __ ] and then when i got to bed i just [ __ ] busted out crying like i was [ __ ] hysterical and i didn't know why the time but looking back it was certainly because when you're grinding at a video game for like your entire day as i did live outside video games just [ __ ] suck because you're putting all your effort into these virtual achievements that don't mean anything when you go outside of that world you'll just be left with what you've done which is nothing i thought that when i took meds and and got my anxiety in check that would help and i it also didn't help as much as i thought it would i did a sleep study and it turns out i have central sleep apnea uh obstructive sleep apnea is the one most people know about where just you know you snore and there's stuff blocking your airways and stuff central sleep apnea means that your brain is not sending the right signals to your body to breathe so it turns out i don't breathe a lot while i'm sleeping now i want to bust a common myth that is oh well at the end of the day i like to unwind playing video games like for an hour a half an hour which is [ __ ] [ __ ] first of all when you're playing video games you're activating your brain again you're you're starting to like uh i'm not gonna cite the [ __ ] research but your brain [ __ ] lights up it just hinders your sleep because think about it the last time you invited with video games you before bed you probably stayed on your phone for like half an hour or an hour before actually going to bed which is a pretty clear sign that you you're not winding you're just hindering being able to sleep again it's been about a year since i've felt like i slept well and like i i mean it like i i don't i just i don't i don't feel rested i've not felt rested in like a year i this year was when i started anxiety medication and uh really really really really been helping like oh my gosh so much helping when this kind of thing goes on a long time like sleep deprivation it it's it is literally impacting my cognitive functioning for the last six years or so i've been severely depressed and the way that i dealt with that was showing myself in my room for about 23 hours a day as early as at the age of 12. but going back to around the age of mia 12 to 13 i had an extreme obsession with game overwatch and i would originally i played with a lot of my real life friends but when they lost interest i kept playing i used to pull all-nighters at like grade school but i think that people are like i said in a much worse situation than i was back then because i was able to quit quite early compared to what most guys do like my brain's ability to be okay and function at all like you know i'm i'm making videos and stuff you know i i can play games i can make videos it's a lot harder um but it's like the it's like the day-to-day stuff you know i forget things uh you know like you ever open the fridge or go into a room and you forget why you were there i it's like that but all the time one of the real life friends who i'm still friends with now who i played overwatch with asked me to start playing overwatch with him again just to kind of kill some time during the pandemic because nobody could go out and as you all know it was quite a boring time so we started playing we started grinding competitive as he used to and when he when summer came around and he started quitting the game i couldn't put down my [ __ ] console and quit the game i just kept grinding and grinding all along and this was a result of my bad habits implemented at an early age which also like caused me a lot of sleep before that but now it was was much worse than what it used to be because now i was all [ __ ] alone there was no like social benefit or social pressure to keep playing i was just doing it because i was feeling the [ __ ] empty hole that i i had gained at a very early age i forget people's names and words and i it's really hard and it's made it so hard to just function your actions right now is what defines you in the future so what i mean by that is in five minutes you'll be another person based on the actions you take you could either stay on your couch or you could do five bishops like it's that simple and it's the same with a day from now an hour from now a week from now passions that you take here and now in the present moment is what will define you in the future i feel like i am functioning at such a minuscule capacity that i never feel like i'm ahead or rested or anything and it's really really really difficult i just don't have energy for everything i need and so and that's why recently i just haven't been doing arlo cast and i haven't been doing roundups because i just i just couldn't i just can't manage it you know when you play video games you'll think to yourself oh [ __ ] i have an assignment i should be doing that but i gotta play some more so you'll just take out like that general and happiness out of your whole week which is you don't think about it right now but it's pretty significant and that's kind of the main point i want to drill into that your actions right now will affect you for the future and for the rest of your life over the last year or so i've been having a lot of really big revelations about just like my own uh mental just you know it's stuff you know i've realized i have add or adhd or whatever you want to call it pretty like inattentive and uh you know i've learned a lot more about my ocd and all that stuff and i'm just i'm i'm learning more about how my brain works which is really good it's a really really really amazing thing i might even do an entire video on just like the mental health video anything anything but playing video games is better than playing video games if that makes sense so going outside staring at the f i gotta say stop saying literally because i can't pronounce it staring at the [ __ ] wall is better than playing video games because when you're staring at the wall you start thinking of things to do other than video games and that is progress towards quitting video games right i spent so much of my life beating myself up for these faults without realizing that my brain is wired in a different way that makes it difficult inattentive adhd makes my brain scream at me just scream at me to not do certain things like if something causes me even just a little tiny bit of anxiety or stress my brain tells me to ignore it just ignore it completely and it's like even something small even something so so small so insignificant a problem that would be fixed in literal minutes you know like literally minutes i could fix this and i wouldn't have that anxiety at all um but my brain tells me no my brain tells me to just look away and don't don't ever think about it and don't ever do it when you're kind of confident by the instant gratification of video games there's it's kind of like drugs so you can't really quit the comfort of playing video games because that's what gives you comfort and like a fulfillment but going through this rough period of time is necessary to be able to quit it right like you're being a [ __ ] [ __ ] just sitting in a chair all day and i'm being insensitive but this is truly my belief like sitting inside all day is being a [ __ ] little [ __ ] uh and oh [ __ ] i'm disgusted unsubbed unfollowed goodbye [Music]