I'm a 4th-year college student and I'm supposed to be graduating soon, but I still have 3 exams to retake this summer. Problem is that I've spent this entire month on 4chan doing literally nothing. Now I've got 2 weeks left, and I'm freaking out because I haven't even started studying.

I keep coming back here even though I know it's messing me up. I've tried to stop, but every time I do, I just end up feeling insanely lonely. I don't have any friends IRL, so this place is my only social outlet. But it also destroys my ability to focus or get anything done.

I don't want to screw up my last year just because I couldn't put my phone down. But I feel stuck, like I physically can't stop.

Has anyone else been through something like this? How do you break out of it?

>>81941466 (OP)
Try dropping out in your 12th semester

>>81941466 (OP)
Sounds like depression. See the college councilor for help. Also I sure hope you didn't take out loans just to fuck around on 4chan while your schooling passes you by.

>>81941466 (OP)
give us an update after the exams
best of luck

I'm in the 4th year too now and I don't know if I will manage to pass, shit is just hard and I hate my major
It's honestly is so frustrating to drop out right at the end, everyone's going to judge you
while if I was just a bit weaker and got a mental breakdown last year or something no one would see it as me just being lazy but actually nothing I can't handle that shit

But alas, it's all a humiliation ritual anyway

>>81941505
>nothing
notice

>>81941466 (OP)
addictions can't really be "broken". Cold turkey doesn't work. Best bet is to simply focus on moderating your behaviour instead. Get some website blocking software. Ironically cold turkey blocker is good for this.
https://getcoldturkey.com/
I use it. It's free (unless you want the premium features then it's a one yimr payment thing) that lets you set up schedules and time limits for when you can use certain sites. Addictions also arise due to an unfulfilled need usually. If all you want is to stop going on 4chan try going somewhere else or try to get your fulfillment in some other, less intrusive manner.

>>81941518
time* organicallly

>>81941466 (OP)
>But I feel stuck, like I physically can't stop.
>Has anyone else been through something like this? How do you break out of it?
It's just internet addiction. There's no easy solution if you need a PC for whatever it is you're doing. Maybe study at a library or somewhere public so you're less likely to browse this shithole.

>>81941494
Nothing to do with depression.

>>81941494
Do NOT do this. Councilers fucking suck, especially free college ones.
t. went through this shit in my firet year of college and they were assholes to me and I ended up having to solve my own problem

>>81941548
Well dont bury the lead dipshit how does OP solve his problem

>>81941582
I posted already
>>81941518

>>81941543
I feel the exact opposite is true of pic related. When the real world stuff goes well it is incomparably better than video games and staying in. I have been a very shut in guy from college onward but when I had real world shit going on the first thing that happened to me was to ditch all that media. Video games didn't become boring per say but I would never pick them over doing stuff with friends. The problem arises when the real world inevitably breaks down and you are left alone and have to rebuild everything. Rebuilding once or twice is fine, but after a few times you start realizing how futile it is, that no matter what shit will just break. Nothing lasts nowadays, no friendships, no romantic relationships, no jobs, everything is ephemeral.

So at some point you realize that you are left with two options, either keep doing this shit over and over like Sisyphus hoping that one day something might stick or you just say fuck it, I am bored of the ups and downs and shut yourself completely. Then video games are all that is left so of course that's what you do all day. And then anhedonia follows and whatever else.

That's what I think drives so many people to just give up, the real world doesn't make sense anymore. It's not remotely stable or consistent or fair. So why bother, go do something that is, even if you don't enjoy it as much.

>>81941466 (OP)
Buddy you don't need motivation to do something, sometimes you just need to do it. Two weeks is likely enough to pass 3 exams if you study 8 hours a day, you just need to grind it out, study efficiently, and stop worrying so much. Do a lot of practice exams alright, speed read through the material. If you have some money, get a tutor and tell them your predicament.

Go to library, find a nerdy qt, study together, you both pass exams and get a gf ezpz

>>81942489
I guess you just have to accept that people come and go, its perfectly fine.
If you believe in fate, maybe its fated for you to keep getting into new circles, before maybe settling into the one. And maybe you are fated to meet em again.
Idk just sayin

>>81942586
Ye nah, sounds fine, doesn't work this way. There is a healthy amount of people coming and going and an unhealthy one. When social circles shift every five minutes, when people give up on the first sign of friction you know shit is fucked. Of all the people I know, friends and family, only one person is in a long term relationship. He is the most stable and happiest of them all, everyone is is constantly moving around trying to "find themselves" but they never do. Friends, relationships, jobs, even where they live all constantly shift. Mind you I am not talking about people in their early twenties where you find shit out, I am talking about people in their thirties and onward.

All of society works like that nowadays. Job skipping is a the best strategy to have the highest salary possible, you will see on social media and people around you I imagine, that swap partners the moment everything isn't honky dory, etc etc. Fuck that noise shit is broken and you know it.