{"product_id":"game-over-f-solivan-9798278668695","title":"Game Over: A Personal Journey through Gaming Addiction","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat happens when a legal, accessible addiction destroys your life-and seeking help becomes more traumatic than the addiction itself?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor fifteen years, I built what looked like the perfect life: a successful career, a loving family, stability. But when work stress became unbearable, I found an escape in PC gaming. What started as a way to unwind quickly spiraled into an all-consuming addiction. I gamed through the nights, sacrificed sleep, neglected my family, and watched my body break down-until I collapsed completely.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGaming addiction is real. It's devastating. And because it's legal and socially acceptable, nobody takes it seriously until it's too late.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the raw, unflinching story of how I lost everything to screens and achievements that didn't matter. How I couldn't get out of bed for three days. How my vision narrowed in a company meeting and I collapsed at home. How I sobbed to my boss and lost the career I'd spent fifteen years building.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the addiction was only half the story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen I finally reached out for help, I walked into a partial hospitalization program with hope-and walked out three hours later traumatized by an involuntary commitment based on a two-minute evaluation and outright lies. The mental health system that was supposed to help me instead stripped away my dignity, my freedom, and my trust.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis book is for: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnyone struggling with gaming addiction who feels ashamed because \"it's just gaming\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFamily members trying to understand how someone can lose everything to video games\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePeople who've been traumatized by the mental health system and think they're alone\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnyone living in the space between broken and healed, wondering if recovery is possible\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eI'm not fully recovered. I still game-but now I control it instead of it controlling me. I still carry trauma from what happened at that hospital. I live in the in-between: functional but scarred, surviving but forever changed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is my story of hitting rock bottom twice-once from addiction, once from seeking help for it. It's a story about what recovery really looks like when there's no perfect ending, just the daily fight to be okay.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIf you've ever lost yourself to something everyone else dismisses as harmless, this book will make you feel seen.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA brutally honest memoir about gaming addiction, mental health system failures, and learning to survive in the space between broken and whole.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e F. Solivan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798278668695\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/14\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 84\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.27lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.20d","brand":"F. Solivan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49083881357567,"sku":"9798278668695","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/game-over-f-solivan-9798278668695","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}