Need to dramatically cut Internet time, main source of my problems.

[Limelight788]

God this is so frustrating. With less then two weeks to the end of the six weeks, I just feel like shooting myself so I don't have to deal with this crap anymore. Okay, not literally, but I still feel like shit.

I have a lot to worry about:
- Having to deal with a hard school schedule, which will be much harder next year.
- Getting a job.
- Applying for SAT
- Studying for final exams
- Getting homework done
- Trying to figure out how to help my family
- Etc.

I wouldn't have brought this up, except for one thing; I can't seem to ever find time to get most of these done. And the main problem? It has to do with me and the Internet.

I'm going to be completely honest here, I am incredibly addicted to the Internet. I cannot seem to drag myself off the Internet except to eat, to go to school, or to sleep. I've tried to ask for help, but it hasn't worked. My Physic teacher saying "It's hard to get motivated" is true, but it doesn't help at all. I mostly ignored it when I started to get addicted back in mid-2007, but ever since late last year, I noticed it's a serious problem that can destroy my future.

I don't know where to go now. Every day I fail to do the homeworks I need to get to, I feel like an asshole who is doing nothing with his life. This isn't me. I'm suppose to be among the best students in my class and do everything I can to achieve a top-notch grade and I can't seems to get to that.

I don't want to be told that I'll be addicted to the Internet for the rest of my life. Just take a look at Chris Chan, Spax3, and other people. They ruined their lives they wasting their time BSing on it with stuffs that no one wants to hear about. I'm better then that and I know it, so I can't end up like them. Not only that, I want to live an actual life, not just a virtual one. I also do not wish to be told that "Hey, it's better then being on the street." Maybe you're right on it, but that doesn't make Internet addictions any less negative to your future.

I will do absolutely anything to ensure that I never need such huge reliance on the Internet again. I will take any advice from you and imply it into my real life. Please help.

[JunkBondTrader]

First of all, those people ruined their lives by essentially turning themselves into spectacles for the world to gawp at. You are not those people.

And increasing number or specialists believe that internet addiction is a real thing and a serious problem. My advice would be to handle it like any other addiction, which of course means that there is more than one way to go about it.

With alcoholism, for example, there are some organisations such as AA which preach total abstinance whilst others encourage moderate, social drinking. At first, try simply cutting down. Prepare a schedule and give yourself a slot of say - two hours a day - in which you can freely use the internet.

Then, when the time comes for you to crack down and work, try going into a room with no computer, or distract yourself with something else. It sounds like you turn to the internet out of boredom so try to fill the time you would be spending online doing some other kind of stimulating activity like reading or just sitting down and listening to music.

Hope this helped. :)