Have you ever been so depressed that you couldn't play games

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Actually dealing with that issue right now. I recently got access to a Nintendo DS and a bunch of games. games I've wanted to try for years. And I can't be bothered to touch the thing.

My best guess is that it's because nobody around here likes video games at all. And while the kids do, my sister doesn't want me polluting their minds with it. So there's really nobody to enjoy the games with since it's basically trash to the world around me.

I think, for me, it may be that I know I have so much to complete and catch up on, that I avoid it. Then again, I'm not sure. I'm really hoping I find the answer soon.
But depression doesn't help with getting motivated to do things, that's for sure.

For me, it's a mix between depression and boredom because there are friends on my PSN friends list have games that I want to buy myself and play mutli-player with them. I currently own four PS3 games, which I'm trying to enjoy to the fullest extent. I'm planning on getting new ones to beat boredom.

I always used video games to escape the harsh realities of what I was facing, so no.

Personally I can't play video games whenever I'm feeling depressed which sucks. It seems like I have to have peace in order to concentrate on a game and allow myself to get lost in the game's world.

I can't play at all if I'm depressed. When I start to think too much about being lonely or some other cool issue, I can't focus at all.

I used to use video games to escape from life, but I can't seem to do it anymore - I think it's because when I was younger I barely was thinking for myself when I was immersed in my TV screen. Now I think a lot of different stuff while I'm bashing some trolls face in Skyrim.

It might not be what you mean, but what I'm getting from it: this. I'm having it. My mind is always wandering and I don't need the full 100% concentration when bashing trolls. So I'm thinking of the things I have to do, bad decisions I've made, games I want to play but haven't got the time to play etc. at the same time. Which is killing the mood a bit of bashing trollfaces, which normally is a pretty damn pleasant happening.

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eh, I'm like, so bored of all my games... guess that counts.

It's more the opposite for me (multiplayer excluded), I get obsessed with gaming when I'm depressed and wanting to avoid reality completely.

Going through it right now.

I have been for at least nine years, now..... I briefly played Twilight Princess and Resident Evil 4, on the Wii, and Grandia II and Skies of Arcadia, on the Dreamcast, and also some Nintendo DS games, but I never finished any of them, except for the DS game Another Code. I now have been playing the same game since two years back - the follow-up to Another Code called Another Code: R ~ A Journey into Lost Memories. I suppose I really should try to finish that game, before the end of the year.

....I just can't focus on playing them, when I try. I just sit there and then soon start asking myself, "Why am I doing this, exactly? What's the point?" Then I realize it will bore me, no matter how hard I try to like it, and I turn the console off.

I have kept buying the games I want to play, for when I am doing better, though..... 95 percent of them are still wrapped in the protecting plastic.

I don't feel like doing anything when I'm depressed except sleep or die, or watch nothing but YouTube videos of old commercials and video games I'll never play for hours, which is exactly how I feel right now. Even being in a fictional virtual world like The Sims 3 or Animal Crossing where my characters can have lots of friends, make lots of money, have cool careers and an awesome-looking home doesn't take away the fact that the real world is doomed. The weather is getting worse all the time and soon food will be even more expensive because of it, we're now in a 2nd Great Depression, the government just doesn't want to tell us, we're losing all the wars horribly and of course the gov. wants us to think that's not true either, everything we eat and drink will either poison us or make us obese, all the candidates in the American election are filthy crooks like all politicians are, people are starving in the streets, playgrounds and parks are like giant magnets for pedophiles, my parents are about the only people who are still a real part of my life, my brother never came home once this summer, it doesn't look like he's coming for Thanksgiving and I'm not even sure about Christmas.
It's because he's just so incredibly "busy" right now. Am I the only adult left who is hardly ever busy???
And dare I mention in December we're all supposed to be devoured by zombies or the earth's axes is supposedly going to turn horizontal and send us hurtling into space. When I said "Stop the world, I want to get off" I didn't mean it quite so literally.

All the stuff you have to do in a video game and the huge number of games you couldn't possibly finish in a lifetime (and if you did, then what?) just add to the stress. And so my Wii, my SNES and my DS are now all gathering dust.

Well, at least I stopped buying consoles and games and now emulate them (much more easily able to get rid of them if not played, and don't cost at least) whenever the relatively rare desire to play something comes along (did in the summer, myself being all alone, but it seems the potential stress of college beginning again effectively paralyzes any enjoyment or desire I could have to play even in the evenings (as I could easily do as a teen)).

BrokenEnvoke, why do you think we grow up to think ever more? Is it really thinking or are our emotions merely directing our attention? When we are younger are we more visceral, and could the reason games couldn't be enjoyed anymore as adults be the same reason some people begin meditating (or smoking cannabis)?

You can use Steam in offline mode and play single player Steam games if you have some.

This wasn't ever a problem for me, but I do know that when I am upset about something and try to play a game, I get very easily annoyed when I am upset and if I die a lot in the game, it makes me quit playing out of anger.

Yes, but still helped me get out of depression.

I have games on every device in the house.. I haven't touched anything in about a year.

Just can't focus enough to get into it I guess. To many things going on around me, depression and anxiety, a couple of deaths in the family (BF's parents) so having to deal with all that comes with the passing of ones parents... probate, sorting of belongings, renovations on the house, the will, disbersments, siblings, family, people people people... everyones emotional...... too much to process.....

BF3 is really hard for me to play for more than an hour. I can push past my wall and go longer than an hour but then it turns into 10 hour marathon and I'm miserable for days afterward (headaches, fatigue, quick temper, lots of time spent in the dark and quiet alone)

I even have games on my netbook which I tote around with me in my purse everywhere I go. BF2, Sim3 all expansions, C&C Generals, sim city 4, Artemis, Railroads.... AND I have emulators with a mess of games as well, which I tote a USB gamepad in my purse for..... as well as my big over-ear headphones (should have gone for the noise cancelling ones)

Winter is just about here so I'll have lots of spare time to play. I am eagerly awaiting the release of the new sim city game.... I'll play the frak out of that I'm sure.