I've been a bit more brainwashed on it than most. My wife has some issues and I don't know if our marriage will make it. Clearly I have 'issues' too, I mean no one's perfect and I'm not trying to blame my wife, but she has C-PTSD and BPD and while diagnosed, rarely steps outside denial regarding behavior or actions.
Before we got married I'd game a couple hours most nights I didn't see her or after I hung out with her. After getting married I'd do it 1-3 nights a week a couple hours. It was my wife's first BPD obsession, the first opportunity she thought she could make me feel guilty for and control or stop something I enjoyed that made me feel better or happy. She was right. She made it so miserable anytime I would try to game with my online friends that it was never worth it and that I almost never turned one on.
Ironically, regarding the context of the previous post, that was also why I stopped cannabis. I talked with her a bunch for almost a year. Slowly explaining how it might help, trying everything from the doctors, and eventually told her I desired trying it, but didn't want to if it would cause a chasm in our marriage. It was no problem to her (she's an immigrant from a country it is common, came here as an adult, and her own grandma uses cannabis). So I tried it- HOLY CRAP did it work!
So after the games I used to enjoy, cannabis became my wife's next BPD obsession. She tried to isolate me from my family over it (telling my anti-drug older parents) and she told my boss. I'm the only one working in the family, that was nuts. I realized as we are always on the cusp of divorce I couldn't risk letting her hurt me as she might over cannabis, so I stopped again. It been eight years since I tried it before talking with her and finding how much it helped. At that point though I stopped another year.
Since then we saw along with all the typical symptoms we knew of, that I have a bicuspid aortic valve and enlarged aorta which will need surgery soon, now my rheumatologist believes me that I likely have Ehlers Danlos Syndrome and he suspects I might also have another autoimmune disorder (I have no idea on that one because prednisone didn't help me much). But all the medicine and therapies I've tried offered little to no relief with strong side effects. From what I can tell, from how my body and neck feel and move, cannabis personally helps me incredibly.
Rather than go on a DMARD that I suspect won't help (since prednisone didn't) and have it's side effects... I finally went back to cannabis. I feel like an idiot though because of my incredibly screwed marriage, but I also don't want to live my life unnecessarily in pain and letting my joints stay locked up as they degrade and deform. Life is too short and I'm running on a heart my cardiologist said was only ever going to run for 30-35 years tops. I'm 31.
I wouldn't worry about what my wife would do about this obsession, except we have a son. Now I'm already thinking of ceasing after just a couple weeks.
I don't know why I am rambling this long rant to you, but I felt it related to the 'stigma' of video games and found it odd how relatable my story on that was to the other topic brought up in my previous post.