Impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially self-damaging (e.g., spending, sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, binge eating). Note: Do not include suicidal or self-mutilating behavior covered in (5).
I have done this in a few forms. My absolute favorite form is reckless driving. I feel most alive when I find the top speed on a vehicle. Especially when pushing vehicles to the limit of tgeir handling capibility. I love the adrenaline of white line driving on motorcycles over 100 miles per hour.
One of my favorite vehicles was a 100 dollar 1995 Cadillac Deville. Very big block engine with enough inertia for two cars. You have to hit the gas soft and the brakes hard. I loved my 500cc transverse V shraft driven motorcle. Responsiveness and manuverability are unparrolelled. I loved having a wuick little jetta to rally around town in snow and rain. I loved driving turboed civics, mercedese, and saab performance vehicles like I stole them. Bravo to my brave friends that experienced that with me.
You are fearless.
Grand theft auto is pretty contreversial. I get that, but they got it perfect. Driving a big block Cadillac at its capacity with rap music blaring is perfectly captured. Driving a bike at its top speed in traffic is immaculately recreated. Fast tight handling cars are amazing, and a stoken lamborgini is exactly as I dream it is.
I am good. I can go through the town. The cops never catch me. Its likecreal life. That's why the game is dangerous, bit that is why its perfect for me. I can fulfil primal driving urges, without endangering other people's lives. Crashes at 200 mph show me pixelated renditions of the end, that I have flirted with for years.
Maybe games like this can meet a need that can potentially save my life.