Chat Room Addiction

Hey guys. So for a variety of reasons, I do not use social networks and things like that. Chat rooms are my procrastination tool. I have very rarely used them for what some other people do, as sexual outlets. And since I started NoFap I don't allow myself to be convinced to do that at all, it was never a big interest anyway.

However, I spend way too much time in chat rooms talking to strangers. It started out healthy somewhat I think, practicing various communication skills I think I lost during the PMO days and also because of the abuse I went through back in the day.

Now though, I'm really starting to see it as an addiction I need to get over. I'm posting this in the loneliness section because I do not think I would ever enter a chat room if I were totally satisfied with my outside world social life and communication abilities. I'm doing very well with NoFap and when I do interact with others, particularly women, I'm noticing positive changes as I've detailed in many other posts. But for some reason I still really like going to chat rooms and being the person I am in those.

Thoughts? Similar experiences?

 

Just general ones. No cam or anything. Some have themes... "singles" chat, "adult" chat, whatever. But I don't seek sexual things in them. I often practice what I think were my old ways of interacting with people. I feel more like the pre-PMO and pre-PTSD self that I remember being.