Age 26 – Exercising more, feeling more confident in social situations, forcing myself to do stuff I wouldn’t normally do. It’s been great!

Might be a bit of a small essay but I’d like to share with you my experience. I’m a 26 y.o m btw. I agree with the general consensus of not replacing your habit with this subreddit, but using it at the start for motivation and as a reminder of the benefits. My journey started […]

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University of Wisconsin student newspaper (The Racquet) posts false police report by Nicole Prause: Article removed by the university (March, 2019)

This page concerns an article published in the University of Wisconsin-Lacrosse student newspaper: The Racquet Investigates: Fight the New Drug. This March, 17th 2019 hit-piece, masquerading as investigative journalism, targeted Fight The New Drug. Inexplicably, it gratuitously contained a section about Gary Wilson, which featured a baseless April 25, 2018 Los Angeles police report filed […]

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Drug-induced stress responses and addiction risk and relapse (2019)

Neurobiol Stress. 2019 Feb; 10: 100148. Published online 2019 Feb 1. doi: 10.1016/j.ynstr.2019.100148 PMCID: PMC6430516 PMID: 30937354 Stephanie E. Wemm∗ and Rajita Sinha Abstract A number of studies have assessed the effects of psychoactive drugs on stress biology, the neuroadaptations resulting from chronic drug use on stress biology, and their effects on addiction risk and relapse. […]

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Omega-3 decreases D1 and D2 receptors expression in the prefrontal cortex and prevents amphetamine-induced conditioned place preference in rats (2019)

J Nutr Biochem. 2019 Mar 10;67:182-189. doi: 10.1016/j.jnutbio.2019.02.007. Metz VG1, Segat HJ2, Dias VT1, Barcelos RCS1, Maurer LH3, Stiebe J4, Emanuelli T3, Burger ME5, Pase CS6. Abstract Amphetamine (AMPH) abuse is a serious public health problem due to the high addictive potential of this drug, whose use is related to severe brain neurotoxicity and memory […]

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Age 21 – Depression gone, Social anxiety reduced, I feel so much motivated, I feel so much clearer in my head

Hi to all, today i am 108 days free from porn, I want to say that this thing really works and it really changed me as a person and helped me in lot of stuff, I am just 108 days porn free even though i masturbated maybe 7 times in those 108 days (without porn […]

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Your Porn Session Could Be An Addiction & This Psychologist Explains How To Fix It. Luke Vu, PhD (2019)

Link to original article By Mike Huynh 5,517,000,000 hours of porn was consumed in 2018 alone…on one site. If you didn’t give a toss before you might need to now. Porn addiction is a growing issue amongst today’s men. At worst, it can ruin your relationships, your career and mess with your moral compass. It’s […]

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Current diagnostic procedures and interventions for Gaming Disorders: A Systematic Review (2019)

Front. Psychol., 27 March 2019 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00578 Sebastiano Costa1 and Daria J. Kuss2* 1Dipartimento di Psicologia, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Caserta, Italy 2Department of Psychology, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, United Kingdom Background: Despite the growth in the number of studies on Gaming Disorders (GD), assessing the characteristics of clinical subjects is still […]

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The true toll of porn: Girls who hate their bodies and young men who can’t perform in relationships – by a GP who’s seen the harm it does to teens (Daily Mail)

A doctor  reveals how girls as young as 15 have come to her about removing hair She says that teenagers don’t know how to refuse sexual advances from partners One male, 23, was unable to perform sexually after watching too much porn  Around 1.4mil children in the UK visited a pornographic website in just 1 […]

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