Porn Addiction

[berd]

I developed an addiction to porn during quarantine. I was always exposed to it when I was younger due to not being monitored when I was on the internet. I can tell it's affecting me now. I'm more anxious over smaller things now and my performance in my classes are awful. I feel guilty every time I watch it. I don't even watch it to get pleasure anymore I just feel like I need to watch it or I won't get through my day. I've tried quitting before and the most I've gotten was 4 days without it. It's also starting to affect my love life, I started having no interest in dating anybody or having sex. I questioned if I was aromantic but shrugged it off cause I thought I was just going through this phase.

 

[Deleted member 8975]

Yeah porn definitely can be destructive to the mind and body. Not that it should be avoided but addictions are super dangerous in so many ways.

I used to be addicted since an early age too but I'm better now :) as of like several years or so.

 

[Hurt]

Yes. It affects your brain for bad. Better quit.

 

[OldDrummer]

There's nothing wrong with the occasional drink, occasional toke or occasional visit to a 'naughty' website.

However, that type of OCD is a type of addiction called 'Pattern Addiction' which is a really difficult one to cope with.

What you will find, unless you check it now, is that over the years you'll increasingly look for stronger and more extreme videos until eventually nothing satisfies you.

 

[berd]

There's nothing wrong with the occasional drink, occasional toke or occasional visit to a 'naughty' website.

However, that type of OCD is a type of addiction called 'Pattern Addiction' which is a really difficult one to cope with.

What you will find, unless you check it now, is that over the years you'll increasingly look for stronger and more extreme videos until eventually nothing satisfies you.

Yeah, I'm already at that point. It's getting really bad, I have to watch extreme vids like you mentioned just to feel somewhat satisfied. I feel disgusted with myself after but I can't stop, it feels like something is controlling me. But I'll try checking it soon before it gets even worse.

 

[KimKevorkian]

I applaud the effort to greatly curtail this real addiction. It's a biological drive that gets all the worse with the death drive (mortido is just the counterpoint to libido, after all). And those neurochemicals generated are as strong as opiates. I'd start by never saying you'll rub yourself out. Your subconscious might get the wrong idea.

 

[fox_wannabe]

Mood, I am afraid I am also addicted. But idk what can I do. Trying to find partner is disaster. Best I can do is moderation or imagination.