Harv Rev Psychiatry. 2015 Mar-Apr;23(2):134-46. doi: 10.1097/HRP.0000000000000051. Yau YH1, Potenza MN. Abstract Addiction professionals and the public are recognizing that certain nonsubstance behaviors–such as gambling, Internet use, video-game playing, sex, eating, and shopping–bear resemblance to alcohol and drug dependence. Growing evidence suggests that these behaviors warrant consideration as nonsubstance or “behavioral” addictions and has led […]
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Hi Everyone, I am 21 years old. I’ve been struggling with an addiction to porn and masturbation for 3 years, beginning since I was 16. My addiction was pretty bad in my opinion. I watched porn and masturbated on a daily basis. The longest I could hold out was 3 days before I would relapse. […]
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I’m so thankful I stumbled across this little corner of the internet by accident. TL;DR: Hang in there. It’s worth it. You won’t be scared of life anymore. I wanted to share my experience to give anyone struggling prior to day 76 the motivation to keep going. Being reminded daily that other people have done […]
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Throughout my teenage years, I did nothing but masturbate, internet binge, and play video games. Along with that, I had begun to develop crippling anxiety. At first it was just around girls, but then it evolved into being afraid of everything. I’m 19 now and I had a really bad experience with a girl 6 […]
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Indian J Psychiatry. 2015 Jan-Mar;57(1):100-1. doi: 10.4103/0019-5545.148540. Poddar S1, Sayeed N1, Mitra S2. Sir, Though Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth edition (DSM-5) does not recognize this as an official category, internet game addiction (IGD) is becoming a serious problem in countries which have wide access to the internet.[1,2] DSM-5 presently proposes and […]
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Cereb Cortex. 2014 Apr; 24(4): 845–858. Published online 2012 Nov 25. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhs362 Niels Hansen and Denise Manahan-Vaughan This article has been cited by other articles in PMC. Go to: Abstract Dopamine (DA) plays an essential role in the enablement of cognition. It adds color to experience-dependent information storage, conferring salience to the memories that […]
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The Journal of Neuroscience, 20 May 2015, 35(20): 7964-7976; doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3884-14.2015 Xue Sun1,3, Nils B. Kroemer3,4,5, Maria G. Veldhuizen3,4, Amanda E. Babbs3, Ivan E. de Araujo3,4, Darren R. Gitelman3,6,7,8, Robert S. Sherwin9, Rajita Sinha4, and Dana M. Small1,2,3,4,10 Abstract In rodents, food-predictive cues elicit eating in the absence of hunger (Weingarten, 1983). This behavior is […]
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