Which side effects are you talking about?
Lol maybe @borax and @gents93 can chip in on this one
I have difficulty processing at speed and very bad anhedonia so I can no longer play multiplayer. However I did discover Bloodborne and dark souls since PFS and I was pleased I managed to compete these. For a very long time after my crash I could not look at screens. No change in symptoms however.
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Erectile dysfunction, cause when I go to bed after gaming I get boners faster with some mental stimulation only… whereas on regular nights I can only get it up fully (like 90-100%) if I slowly work myself and touch myself to get boners… Sorry to be a bit graphic.
Also I notice I tend to think about sex more after gaming
Hahaha. Maybe thats cause Battlefield V is first person 
in Fortnite I get a good view of the female characters rear-view for a long time 
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I have been playing since I was a kid and I havent noticed anything similar. But I have to admit gaming distracts me enough to not feel miserable while Im playing.
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It has a lot of sense…for me what happens is that if i have nothing to do, then i got sick because i feel useless, tired, etc. However if i work, study, play, masturbate…then i feel much better. It is like if i need to do something to be like stressed…then i can manage i overcome that “vacuum feeling”.
Big fortnite guy. No change in symptoms at all while playing, but it does take my mind off this disease which is very helpful
Someone over here gets relief from mental symptoms with pseudoephedrine i believe, so maybe it’s just hormones moving around.
I can’t say fortnite in particular makes me feel better, but when i’m busy and able to keep up i feel better than when i’m not. Generally if I have nothing to do then I feel terrible.
I have a 60 Inch 4K TV, ps4 pro and the newest games lying around but I cant even play because of my anhedonia.
I bought Red dead redemption 2 on release but still havent played it. Fuck PFS
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Oh wow. I love Dark souls… Playing Dark souls 3 now at the moment as my single player game and loving it 
Glad to have met a fellow unkindled 
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Dont worry… You wont feel like this forever… It must get better! Try playing for 30 mins a day atleast?? See if that helps you get into it?
It wont get better cause I have this symptom since my crash 3 years ago.
I could play for 30 minutes but it would literally feel like a chore. I cant enjoy it.
When I first crashed I couldn’t even look at a tv screen - my eyes couldn’t keep up. Now I can watch tv and play games just fine! Although my reading is still compromised - words still visually seem to be distorted/hard to reads.
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This is not necessarily in response to the original post but a general rant on this general topic.
I am starting to get really frustrated with some of the posts about alleviation of sides, cures, etc. I think I am going to become an insufferable hater and everybody here will soon start hating me, which usually happens to people who insist on telling the truth to people who want nothing but wishful thinking.
Human libido and capacity for sexual arousal has ups and downs, it is variable. It has short term variation and it has longer term variation. The ups and downs can be big. Someone who is at their 100% baseline of sexual function can have a dip to 30% that lasts for days. This is normal.
Similarly, someone who is at a 20% permanent baseline can have a surge that brings them up to 50% temporarily, and for a magical moment in time they find themselves above what they would have been in a down state before PFS. If and when that happens that doesn’t mean their “sides” have been alleviated, nor does it mean they had a cure and then “crash”. I am so tired hearing this story in an endless number of permutations. This is a simple matter of critically analyzing variation and determining a long-term baseline or trend.
I also get hard-ons when I have slept little, for example, and that’s a normal part of being REM sleep deprived. Does it mean sleep deprivation can be considered a “cure” and I should resolve to sleep less so I can be cured? Yes, if I am a complete idiot.
Similarly, raising your baseline temporarily while taking supplements and pro-hormones does not constitute a cure. For any given level of libido, supplementing the right combination of hormone-boosting supplements will shift the baseline upward, while you are taking the supplements. If the effect goes away when you stop the supplements, you are not crashing after having been cured. You have never been cured.
When we talk about mental and emotional problems such as depression, the variation can be even more profound. This would be a more complex topic than what I want to discuss here but again - having positive emotions and experiences doesn’t mean you have been “cured” of the underlying condition or that its “sides” have been alleviated. Say tonight I went out to hang out with friends and for two hours I didn’t feel like killing myself. Did my sides get alleviated? Yes, if you have absolutely no concept of where those “sides” come from causally… Again, this is а long topic that I don’t want to begin now but maybe another time.
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I can not play anymore. I was fond of FPS (anagram of PFS) I really liked Crysis, Mirror’s Edge etc. Now I can no longer play anything, I’m not in the least concentrated.
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No offense but is this thread a joke?
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Wether it’s a joke or not, whatever gets you through the night is ok, in my opinion.
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Even I’m better at night, worse in the morning
Playing through boss fights and pivotal moments in RPGs was one of my favorite pastimes. This condition sucked all of the joy out of it for me and gaming has since been nothing but a mental escape. That is the only thing it does to alleviate symptoms.
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Personally I second what sibelio says
This whole thing is getting stupid
No offense but it’s hardly productive and threads like this wipe out the seriousness of our condition and create the hypochondriac accusations …
Sorry but come on guys threads like this are what made me hold off joining this forum for years when your in a shite situation the last thing you need is crazy talk.
If you like gaming fare enough but surely you can see my point.
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