Front. Psychiatry, 14 November 2018 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00546 Mateusz Gola1,2* and Małgorzata Draps1 1Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland 2Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience, Institute for Neural Computations, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States Compulsive Sexual Behaviors (CSB) are a reason to seek treatment. Given this reality, the number […]
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So i wanna tell you all. After some sort of going to nofap, exercise everyday, more eat healthy food and going to read book about motivation, stoicism and some sort of positive good and also reading book of napoleon about sex transmutation, I can handle some abstinence with monk mode no PMO. And the point […]
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I´m a 24 year old man, I´m 1 month away from completing my clinical psychology specialization. I have given many hours of psychotherapy during this whole year, and have studied this subject for about 5 years now. I reached 90 days in this journey today. It has been extremely hard, probably the hardest and most […]
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Addict Behav. 2018 Oct 16;90:62-70. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2018.10.019. Wang M1, Zheng H1, Du X2, Dong G3. Abstract OBJECTS: Understanding the neural basis underlying Internet gaming disorder (IGD) is essential for the diagnosis and treatment of this type of behavioural addiction. Aberrant resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC) of the default mode network (DMN) has been reported in individuals […]
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Heim C. (2018) Psychobiological Consequences of Child Maltreatment. In: Noll J., Shalev I. (eds) The Biology of Early Life Stress. Child Maltreatment Solutions Network. Springer, Cham [Does extensive exposure to extreme internet porn early in life have similar effects in some?] Abstract Adversity in early life, such as childhood abuse, neglect, and loss, is a […]
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Noah Church is a well-known speaker on issues related to porn addiction. He is also the author of Wack: Addicted to Internet Porn, an educational look at how internet porn affects its users. Additionally, he has created the website, Addicted to Internet Porn. On that site, he has compiled information learned from his own and others’ experiences […]
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[Co-authored by multiple researchers in the field of problematic sexual behavior, this article questions whether the new CSBD diagnosis belongs under the “Impulse Control Disorder” category, where it currently resides. They find the most support for CSB as an ‘addictive disorder.’] Ewelina Kowalewska, Joshua B. Grubbs, Marc N. Potenza, Mateusz Gola, Małgorzata Draps, and Shane […]
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Currently on a 107 days NoFap streak. Lurking into this sub for a while. At one point in life, I had a very terrible addiction to PMO. It started to affect nearly all areas of my life. I was trying very hard to give up urges. But most of my streaks ended in 4-5 days. […]
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