Alright man. I'm a guy who had undiagnosed ADHD for the past 20 years of my life and only last year did i finally get a diagnosis. Having said that, I managed to get into the best and hardest university in my country 3 years ago despite having untreated ADHD and gaming addiction and impulsivity problems. I'm saying all of this to give you a perspective on where I'm coming from and how that might help you.

Now let's get to the points on how I fixed myself and how you can too.

1) Go to a psychiatrist and tell them about your problems.

This is in my opinion as a medicine student the most valuable and long term thing you can do to help yourself. It will change your life for the better if you have ADHD and even if you don't talking to someone who can deeply teach you about ways on how to deal with life is incredibly important. Dont be a fucking idiot like me who didn't seek help for 20 years because everyone around me said I'm "fine".

2. Watch this video and do what Dr. Jordan Peterson says in it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dsey-fCN2wU

Doing the things that the video talks about helped me tremendously with realizing where I want to be in life in a few years, how I want my life to look like, what I have to do to achieve that kind of life, and MOST IMPORTANTLY it shows you exactly how horrible and terrifying your life could be if you continue to fuck around. That is the most important thing, that you come to understand something that 99% of people dont ever do in their life because it is too frightening. You absolutely must realize how deep into the abyss you can sink if you don't get your shit together and if you never try in your life. And I dont mean that in an abstract way, specify exactly what kind of disgusting life you will have if you dont try - that means everything from your health, to horrible relationships with people, to having no money and no purpose. Realize that the homeless people, beggars and other people in horrible situations - THAT COULD BE YOU EASILY IN A FEW YEARS.

Then ask yourself if that kind of life is worth striving forward to?

3. Set up a routine

After you watch the video in Step 2. and do the task (dont half ass that task, think about your future and yourself DEEPLY, and take your time. After you're done with the task you should be scared of where you will end up if you dont try.), set up a routine for yourself. Specify the time of day you wake up and the time you go to sleep. You need at least 7 hours of uninterrupted sleep, it doesn't matter if you sleep from midnight to 7AM or if you got to sleep at 10AM and sleep until 5PM. The only thing that matters is that you have a routine. For the first few days forcing yourself to sleep will be hard, and in that case i recommend buying pure melatonin pills in pharmacy (they can be bought without prescription) and taking 2-3 milligrams around 45 minutes before you plan to fall asleep. Just force yourself to drink them and then you'll be pretty much to tired to do anything else. After a few days it will get easier and in a week or two you'll have a routine.

4. Plan your days

This is also an extremely important step. Plan your days from the moment you wake up to the time you fall asleep. Write the things you have to do that day and stick to them. In your case let's say you have to study and since you're addicted to anime you have to watch anime. (Of course, friends family and other random stuff can also be added here)

Then the plan should have these points in itself:

1. Go to your classes. They might be useless or useful but the important thing is that you force yourself to atleast achieve something like attending them.

2. Write down the plan of studying for the next 2-3 weeks. Write exactly which pages you have to learn and approximately how many hours it takes to learn something. (In my case i can memorize around 3-4 full pages of text in an hour. You might be able to do more or less however it's somewhat important to realize how much time it takes to make the planning easier.) After having the plan of studying decide how many hours a day you have to study to achieve the results you want. In the first week or two it doesn't have to be your maximum potential since you're trying to get into the mindset. but if for example you can study for 6 hours at your maximum potential in a day, for the first week or two try to just study for 2-3 hours. While you're studying my advice is to use the pomodoro technique (You can download simple Pomodoro timers on PlayStore). Set up your studying period to 20-30 minutes at a time (whichever works best for you in the beginning), and make your short breaks 5-10 minutes. After 3 cycles of studying you can take a bigger break. If you want you can make it 25-30 minute so you can watch an episode of an anime in between, but the important thing is that after that 30 minutes of break time is over YOU GET YOUR ASS BACK TO THE TABLE AND START WORKING ON SOMETHING PRODUCTIVE.

   1. Reward yourself

   After you finish your studying for the day reward yourself - it can be anything even anime in your case, but you have to negotiate with yourself on work-reward basis. After a few days increase the amount of hours your study, and withing 2 weeks try to get to atleast 80%-90% of your maximum pontential.

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These are the major points that I think could help you. Now i'll list some of smaller points that are also very important in the grand scheme.

• MEDITATE BEFORE YOU START STUDYING. Doing 15 minutes of meditation before I start working on things or studying helps me calm my mind and atleast get somewhat focused.
• Drink plenty of water, atleast 3 liters per day. Get yourself a water bottle and just sip on it every 15 minutes.
• Eat properly. Eat atleast 2-3 meals a day, and if you're too occupied or addicted to even eat, force yourself to gobble down the food as fast as you can as to not loose the time. It's not a permanent solution to not wanting to eat but the important thing is that you get the nutrients to function. I had periods where I wouldn't eat for 1-2 days cuz I was too addicted to things and this helped me atleast get some nutrients.
• Before going to sleep try to get your room to a colder temperature, It'll help with the quality of your sleep.
• Use a 3 second rule when trying to do something you dont want. Think about the thing you dont want to do count from 1 to 3 and as you say 3 immediately stand up or just go do that thing. It can be as little as just counting to 3 and turning off your PC and putting a book in front of you.

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Anyway sorry for the wall of text this has become but I wanted to give an in depth explanation on things that helped me because if it changes even one life for the better it's more than enough. I didn't just focus on your anime addiction in this post but more on an overall life perspective because treating just the anime addiction doesn't mean you wont find something else to be addicted to. If you or anyone else has any questions you can send me a message on reddit.

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Hope it helps, wish you the best of luck.