KajitiSouls Wrote:I don't know if there really is a good way to quit MS once you really get into it =/ Based on what I know about psych, there probably is no straight way to beat the feelings and urges to come back once it's ingrained.This is quite true. I guess I'm coming from a postmodern perspective where "What is X" creates multiple definitions. I was trying to address some of these definitions, through psychological reality and basically "What people think X is." I guess I was also trying to answer "What is the mental state needed for X." This is intrinsically linked with "What is X" but I suppose it does deviate a bit. Maybe that's what I should change it to. "The cognitive substrates of Quitting Maplestory" isn't quite as snappy!
Also, "cognitive processes" does not equate to "WHAT, not HOW to quit MS" in super layman terms, because that flew over my head.
I won't go in great detail into what I know about psychology here. Suffice it to say that behavioural psychology would certainly disagree with what you just said, and probably cognitive and cbt as well. I'm pretty sure psychodynamic theory has its own opinion (although I don't know what exactly it would say here), and systems/family approach its own opinion again.
However, I played MS for at least 2 years before I quit (in the guide it hints that I used to be a very hardcore player), and I would definitely say I've successfully quit MS, in the sense that I have no interest in playing it and certainly haven't played it for a long time. So I would respectfully disagree with you that it's impossible to quit. Perhaps another day someone (or myself) can make a guide about what exactly one can do to quit.
It's interesting that you think that you can't quit. I didn't leave much room for people to believe that quitting wasn't possible, did I? Although, see the first table on beliefs - there are a few unspoken beliefs about the impossibility of quitting in there. I must say I haven't explored the psychological perceptions as much as I could have, have I?