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I can't stop playing solitaire. Help.
The_Scarab
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earlier, I was watching an episode of the West Wing. And there was this shot where donna was standing in front of josh doing some paperwork, i dunno what she does, anyway she was wearing a red dress and he was wearing a black suit and i smiled because ive been playing too much solitaire that it felt good to see the cards stacked like that except they were people, not card.s
then, about an hour ago i was tidying up a bookcase and there was a vintage (not old, its a brand) copy of brave new world, and it had a red spine. and there was a copy of dracula, with a black spine. perhaps you can see where this is going. anyways, when i had finished stacking the books neatly i stood back and oh shit, all the books on the shelf went red spine, black spine, red spine black spine.
it's like every spare second, every possible free nano-moment between typing or browsing the internet or anything else on the computer i immediately open solitaire and start clicking away. furiously. i always go for fastest time, unscored, because you can tell after about ten slots whether or not your're going to beat your're time so you can start over real quick. my fastest time is now 32 seconds, which has been attained from nearly six thousand games of solitaire. you can tell i go for speed because i only have a 32 per cent win record which i try really hard to keep because of the nice symmetry with my best time. often i just quit and start over and over again until i get a good start, which is usually a couple of aces and some empty card spots for kings.
its like, im starting to stack things on my desk in rows. im wearing one red sock and one black sock right now. im not even kidding. how can i stop playing solitaire? this is becoming a very serious problem.
should i try chess titans maybe?
then, about an hour ago i was tidying up a bookcase and there was a vintage (not old, its a brand) copy of brave new world, and it had a red spine. and there was a copy of dracula, with a black spine. perhaps you can see where this is going. anyways, when i had finished stacking the books neatly i stood back and oh shit, all the books on the shelf went red spine, black spine, red spine black spine.
it's like every spare second, every possible free nano-moment between typing or browsing the internet or anything else on the computer i immediately open solitaire and start clicking away. furiously. i always go for fastest time, unscored, because you can tell after about ten slots whether or not your're going to beat your're time so you can start over real quick. my fastest time is now 32 seconds, which has been attained from nearly six thousand games of solitaire. you can tell i go for speed because i only have a 32 per cent win record which i try really hard to keep because of the nice symmetry with my best time. often i just quit and start over and over again until i get a good start, which is usually a couple of aces and some empty card spots for kings.
its like, im starting to stack things on my desk in rows. im wearing one red sock and one black sock right now. im not even kidding. how can i stop playing solitaire? this is becoming a very serious problem.
should i try chess titans maybe?
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This doesn't sound like too bad of a case of OCD, insofar that you are still functioning, yes? If it really is bothering you, see a counselor.
Coming from someone with OCD, it's nothing that needs to be fixed unless it's actually harming you and your life.
The solution is to stop playing.
To the people asking/saying if this is a problem, please see the red part above.
Go to a therapist. There are plenty of community mental health centers that can help you out, but yeah, that's pretty classic OCD or perhaps some other obsessive personality disorder. Those traits are normal in moderation with all humans, we are trained instinctually to see patterns to save time/live but they can get out of control.
Yours has because you believe it has.
Alternatively, you could try other games.
Even if it's dumb stuff like crunches or push ups. :P
Keep busy for a week or so like this and eventually the urge will be gone. Works for me.
To answer your question, uninstall solitaire and try to distract yourself like Mmmm...Cocks said.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307768
And Windows 7...
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Turn-Windows-features-on-or-off
But seriously, uninstall the game, and if you have a hankerin' for Solitaire, just pull out the cards and play real solitaire. You'll probably stop liking it pretty quickly, because real solitaire is a hella' messy game that gets all confused and is annoying as crap.
At least, that's been my experience with it.
just uninstall it if you can't force yourself to stop.
I stopped playing it when I lost the game, and finally stopped seeing the T shape everywhere.
Delete solitaire from your life!
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Just uninstall the game.
At the end of the year, use the money to go on a trip.
The question is, do you feel that playing solitaire prevents you from doing things that you want to do, or might enjoy more? If not, then I don't feel that there's real cause for concern.
I also really like 143999's idea of buying in on each game you play.
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So turn his OCD into a gambling addiction?
I would not recommend this method.
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I got that way at work with Sudoku on my phone. I got this app that's got like 100,000 puzzles and it counts them down once you complete them so I'd be sneaking away to do some sudoku whenever I got a chance. Recently they updated the app and deprecated the version I'm on and because of the deprecation the icon gets deleted from my "desktop" every time the phone boots so now there's more than one click in between me and my sweet sweet sudoku seductress and somehow now that extra effort is enough to stop me from over indulging.
so yes, I second the motion to delete the solitaire game and use a flash game whenever you get the hankering. . . just don't bookmark the link because it'd be about the same effort.
It first started with RTS (C&C: Red Alert). I was dreaming of the health bars and was playing the game in my head. Then I got StarCraft and it got so bad that I finally when "Ok, I have to do something about this" and made both on paper and on game a 40 mission campaign were you play what's left of the Confederate Forces on Mar Sara who take control of a Zerg cerebrate and mutant him and it's brood to become Brain Bugs, a Zerg off-breed that can take over the minds of other creatures and control them. Nearly 400+ hours later, I finished it. However, it's where I decided on becoming a video game creator.
Lately, it's been Minecraft. I saw a bridge being built and wondered why to was taking them so long to gather the cobblestone needed to finish it!
I got it on my iPhone this morning. I have done literally no work today.
I am at my office. I should be at home sleeping or playing LA Noire.