Books, video games, movies and TV. For me it's about immersing myself in a world or a story that can distract me from my own anxious thoughts. Lots of time playing video games while listening to an audiobook.
How long have you been playing video games listening to audiobooks? I realized of late that I haven't been playing music when I game as much, which can make grind-oriented games one hell of an unpleasant experience. I like the idea of listening to audio books instead a lot.
For quite a while. A video game has to have extremely good music or be very immersive or intense for me to not mute it. Subtitles are almost always an option nowadays so I rarely feel as if I'm missing much from the game. I first started listening to my own music instead when playing, but over the last decade I've been listening to more and more audiobooks and podcasts, so I started listening to them while playing so I could get through more of them.