Recovery Guide 2 (Paradoxical Intention)

I am trying to provide knowledge that isn’t so often seen & I am trying to relate the idea a bit more instead of giving facts so here I go.

You may do some research on your own about Paradoxical Intention under Logotherapy but here is my primitive definition and application.

Paradoxical Intention is purposely inducing your problem as best as you can.

For instance have you ever tried to go to sleep and end up staying up for hours, the act of trying to sleep is creating tension which keeps you up. On the other hand how many of you have fallen asleep when trying to stay awake for your favorite show.

One patient who had a horrible case of stuttering for his whole life had only one memory in which he did not stutter and that was when he was hoping to get sympathy when he was caught riding a train without paying for a ticket. He ended up talking normally.

lets get a bit warmer now how many of you have had the worse timing boner in school. then again most of us problem haven’t had one in a while if were here ~_~.

for people fighting ED try your best to not have a boner during intimacy with your partner, at the same time sexual pleasure should be a side effect of trying to give one self to your partner and only be induced while focusing on the other person.

now what I am suggesting for our particular issue at hand is next time you are battling your urges, do not battle them but instead try your best to be as HORNY as possible. In doing so you unveil the situation for the joke it is. you realize that fighting the temptation to jerk off as if your being hypnotized is a funny scenario if you think about it almost laughable. And by playing along in this big joke you will laugh.

I am serious get into ROAR like a beast yell out I am SUPER HORNY! power up like a super saiyan and afterwards laugh. Hell make a video of yourself doing this watch it and see for yourself how much of a parody our situation truly is.

I hope this helps & remember you my friend are much bigger than this.

Reference The Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy By: Viktor E. Frankl