My addiction to crack.. in CD rom form.

I have an addiction. I self diagnosed this addiction. It takes a told on my health, my social status, and my relation to my family, so it is very serious. Over eleven million other people in the world also suffer from this. My addiction is to world of warcraft. I've been an addict now for almost 4 years. Although I joke about it, there are some honest signs of addiction to it.

Addiction- the state of being enslaved to a habit or practice or to something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (dictionary.com)

I play world of warcraft... a lot. Most likely I play every single day. The game is set up in such a way that the more you play it, the stronger of a character you become. There are quests that I am only able to do once per day, and doing these benefits my character as I acquire in game currency or a token of some kind that when I save up enough tokens I am able to spend them on shoulder plates with stronger stats. Everyone always wants to stay on top, and falling behind is always a risk.

I'm pretty much addicted, but some people use WoW like crack. A funny thing I saw once was on one of the world's best guild's websites, (planet earth.. not world of warcraft, and yes, there are world leading wow players) they had a banner on the top that said, "If you are going to try to apply to our guild, you better not have a job or a girlfriend." I was once in an "intense raiding guild". Most likely 5 or 6 nights a week we raided. 24 other people were just as addicted to me or even more addicted. Other people on the server we played on were jealous of our accomplishments. But accomplishments of what? Not going outside for 6 nights a week? I thought it was hell, and I did it for 2 months or more, I can't remember. I was demoted in the guild for not showing up to a 'progression raid' (when actually, I was just an hour late or two). I quit the guild out of rage and I was fed up with all that playing.

I don't know if it has hurt my work ethic, but I think it has stunted its progression. A few nights ago I got home at 9 from a college faire, and I did study for 30 minutes for my AP US quiz the next day, but I got pretty bored and so I logged on. Needless to say, I got an F on my quiz. It makes me wonder if I did not have access to this wow.exe file I would work on my work ethic. I have multiple times in the past deleted the game, even for a few months at a time. But I always end up relapsing again and redownloading it.

The main symptome of this addiction is boredom. Extreme boredom. It is almost pathetic just how bored I become when I do not have access to internet. My mind goes down the list of what to do..
1. World of warcraft
2. X box
3. Warcraft III
4. Youtube
5..... i do not have a long list but all these include internet. I almost go crazy it feels like when I don't have access to my precious bliss that is the internet. Isn't that was the definition of addiction was? Being enslaved to a habit, that habit is opening that wow.exe file and spending my time on it.