Video Game Addiction Support Group

Friend has a video game addiction should I feel responsible.
Ok so here is the story, about 2 years ago I found a free online RPG game, I figured hey this might be fun to play and I asked one of my friends to join me thinking it would be fun to do since we both lived in an extremely small town with nothing to do. At first it was really causal and fun but for my friend it slowly became more and more serious for him, eventually it became all about drama as this friend started jumping from girl friend to girl friend with this game and started having relationship problems. Eventually I quit playing when it became not fun for me anymore, but my friend still plays and has said that he thinks of it as more than just a game now. He still has a girlfriend on this game that does not live anywhere near him, and he seems to be in a bad relationship as they are always fighting. I don’t know what to do I I feel horrible because im the one who asked him to play in the first place, but I never imagined that my friend would get addicted and start going too far. Im not the one who set him up with this girlfriend he did that by himself I think he would quit if it weren’t for this girlfriend and Im worried that this friend is never going to experience life now. I feel guilty about this all the time and im not sure how to deal with it. I never intended anything bad to happen:(, I think part of the reason he is addicted is because he has self esteem issues and does not always make friends easily.


P.S. Sorry about the blank post below scripting is not allowed on my computer so my first post was messed up.
Posted on 06/08/09, 12:06 pm