video game addiction ruining my life :/?

I consider myself to be a very competent, put together 18 year old. I have a job, real estate classes I am attending, college next year..my life is just beginning to take off..but in the past month or so I have been extremely off focus and it's all because I gravitate to this game. It's on Facebook, called criminal case..I can't talk to anyone in real life as I am far too embarrassed, even to tell my best friend. Because this game is so accessible on my smartphone..I can play it anywhere. I play it at school, at work, with friends, I wake ip every 2 hours to utilize my energy in the game. Thia addiction has gotten way out of hand..I haven't done my real estate homework in 2 weeks because the game. Truthfully I want to play right now. Today I got obsessed, I added about 50 strangers on Facebook so they could give me more energy and I could keep playing..I know cold turkey is the best route. But it's going to be so hard, I feel I have no real life support. I've been forgetting to take my Zoloft because this game is what I do each morning rather than my routine. So without Zoloft in my system I'm also suffering from a very low temper, severe depression, sometimes suicidal thoughts. I also take synthroid as I have a life threatening thyroid condition and I forgot to take that too, and my birth control. I'm not sexually active but I am supposed to take that medication as I am at high risk foe uterus cancer and hormonal imbalanced. Life was so much better before I laid in bed all day playing criminal case. Tomorrow my best friend and I are traveling for a day trip we have wanted to do for a year now..and I have been trying to think when I can sneak in times to play. That was the breaking point when I realized this needs to be fixed now. I sure would love to get back on track with real estate :/

In order to tell if video game 'addiction' is ruining your life, you have to understand what it would be without it. A lot of the time, people can push all the blame on a specific thing in their life, and assume that if they can remove that one obstacle, that everything will be well again. That's not always true, and in fact often isn't, but still, removing even a single obstacle can help tremendously sometimes.

I battled things like this in myself for a time, but it turned out that it was simply a coping method for me, and that when better things were available, I could put it aside with surprising ease (but not for extended amounts of time).

I don't know you. I don't know your life. And I am not going to tell you that you should quit, nor am I going to tell you that what you are doing is perfectly okay. You know yourself far better than I do, so you'll have to decide for yourself.

What I understand about addiction (or compulsion in this case), is that in order to break the addiction, simply stopping isn't enough. You need to find something less damaging to replace it. You may find that after you stop, there is nothing to replace it, and that itself can be the problem.

I'm sorry I can't advise you better, but I hope this helps in some small way...