>>14421661Former E drone here. I became a big WWE fan during a really bad time in my life. My parents cut me off financially, I wasn’t dating, and I had no social life. I got really into the idea of a “community” of WWE fans and used it as a replacement for a real life. At my worst; I was watching every single WWE program and then spending all my free time shitposting about TNA and (later) AEW. My life was falling apart but I didn’t notice, I was too busy watching WWE.
On July 23rd of 2022 I was sitting alone at home when my phone rang. It was my parents, they’d been informed by landlord that I was 3 months behind on rent and wouldn’t answer the door. Since they had co-signed the lease, he wanted them to know I was being evicted. I had. I idea this was going on, I was too invented in WWE. I was almost 40, had been evicted, and had been unemployed since 2020. I’d been barely surviving and didn’t even know how bad it was because of how much I was supporting WWE.
I started to see a therapist and, later, an expert who has helped deprogram actual cult members. They said I had a lot of the same symptoms; basically I had no life and WWE had presented itself as an “alternative to life”, something I could invest all my free time and money and energy towards.
In all honesty if you consider yourself a huge WWE fan you may want to see a therapist, it was pretty shocking for me to realize how much my life has regressed because of WWE. I still love wrestling but I cannot watch WWE any more, it would be like a gambling addict moving to Vegas. And I now that I see how they manipulate people with mental health struggles, it’s hard to even read about it.
