I started playing wow when it first came out, (13/8/05) my b'day my mother bought me the game along with an ipod and upgrades for my PC.

I started playing WoW for like 1-2 hours a day, once i hit level 20 then 4-5 hours, then once i hit 60 i wouldent goto school, i would just sit at my PC playing 12-14 hours a day.

My pc was in my room next to my bed i would wake up goto the toilet go and get a pack of chips and go back to my room and hop on the PC right away and start playing, i never used to eat much unless the food was bought to me so my mum used to bring dinner down and i would eat at the PC, then when i got so tired i couldent stay awake i would take 2 steps to my bed and fall asleep.

My mum got very upset as i put on alot of KG's never went to school, lost all respect for my family and friends, and just went down hill.

Then it got to the stage when i stole my mums CC and spent $4,000 AUS on Items, Gold and WoW accounts, i enjoyed them for 4 hours and then mum came home from work and she logged onto paypal and noticed all the money missing and what it was used on, that was the last straw for mum and she started getting up me and we used to fight alot, she begged me to goto school, she kicked me out and i lived in a refuge for a few months and mum couldent handle not having me around so she asked me to come back and when i did it was back to the same old habbits.

I played WoW so much that i lost my girlfriend, all my RL friends and my family, it got so bad again that my mum called Today Tonight and asked them to coem and speak to me, when they did i tryed to hold up and have the interview with them but i broke down and ran to my bedroom.

It wasent untill i got kicked from a guild and started crying over it that i saw what this game was doing to me, i got so angrey and deleted the game went to my draw and snaped all the disks up and deleted all restore points on my pc so i would never play again, once i done this 10 minutes after i snaped out of it and thought about what i done i tryed to find a way to install it again (Yes after 10 minutes of not having it) and it dident work.

I was crying on my floor in my room when my mum came home from work and she asked me what was wrong and i explained she said it was a good thing and she would help me anyway should could.

We started doing things together as a family, she bought me dvds, she done everything to keep my mind off the game, it took me about 3 months to forget it all together.

Then i added up how much money i had spent on the game, it added upto well over $20,000 and then thought how i could have owned a car and all the nice things i could have bought with that money.

After all thattime of not playing it ive completed my year 10, started a job as a chef and getting on with life, now i feel strong enuf to speak about it, and i will be having an interview with TT again soon about this and how/what it does to people and family, so if your from AUS keep an eye out for that.

I still have very low self esteem and find it hard to cope and i wanted to play WoW latley and that what bought me to right this, to remind me what pain and trouble it made.

In alot of ways im still not over WoW.

In the end....
I lost my girlfriend.
I put on 41 KG's
I spent $20,000
I lost all my friends.
I lost all my family but my mum who stuck by me.

I saw this site and thought i may be able to help some people on here so i will be sticking around for awhile...

Sorry for the long post.