Front Psychol. 2017 Apr 10;8:526. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00526. Deng LY1, Liu L2, Xia CC2,3, Lan J2, Zhang JT4,5, Fang XY2. Abstract Craving, as a central feature of addiction and a precursor of relapse, is targeted recently in addiction intervention. While Internet gaming disorder (IGD), conceptualized as a behavioral addiction, is lack of effective treatment practice and […]
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I´m male 28. Had a severe case of delayed ejaculation and had low sensitivity. When I first joined this site, I was reading the success stories here and damn how I wished I could some day write my own one. And here it is! MY STORY: My problem was that I had troubles reaching orgasm… […]
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Frutos, A.M. & Merrill, R.M. Sexuality & Culture (2017). doi:10.1007/s12119-017-9438-6 Abstract The purpose of the current study was to evaluate explicit sexual movie use among men and women in the United States according to relationship, lifestyle, work, financial, religious, and political factors. Analyses involved 11,372 adults who responded to questions about demographics and explicitly sexual […]
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I made it, so can you! Here’s my story. I had been hooked to P for more than 20 years, and my sexual life was a complete mess. I had PIED and suffered gay HOCD, I even acted out, and I was so confused. I didn’t dare date a girl for many years. I felt […]
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The higher your streak, the better you get. This is the truth I experienced through this amazing journey. It’s like a snowball effect. As the days pass by, the benefits gets bigger and bigger. oFap won’t make you a Superman in one day. You still gotta strive hard. It makes all the hard work easy […]
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Drug Alcohol Depend. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2015 Dec 1. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2014 Dec 1; 145: 77–86. Published online 2014 Nov 4. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2014.09.013 PMCID: PMC4266109 NIHMSID: NIHMS640482 Patrick D. Worhunsky,a,b Robert T. Malison,a Robert D. Rogers,b,c,1 and Marc N. Potenzaa,d,e,1,* Abstract Background Individuals with gambling or substance-use disorders exhibit similar functional alterations […]
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Front Behav Neurosci. 2014; 8: 83. Published online 2014 Mar 25. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00083 PMCID: PMC3971166 Yansong Li,1,2,* Guillaume Sescousse,1,† and Jean-Claude Dreher1,2 Abstract Pathological gambling is a behavioral addiction characterized by a chronic failure to resist the urge to gamble. It shares many similarities with drug addiction. Glucocorticoid hormones including cortisol are thought to play […]
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I’m 25, and I used porn for close to 10 years. A lot of what got me to give this a try was l had just had a discussion with a friend of mine about my teenage years. I attributed a lot of it to a strong sex drive, but realized I had lost that […]
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I’m 23 and started Nofap 2 years ago, although it took me the first full year to finally stop making excuses—I would relapse at every turn because I’d find ways to justify doing so. I’d even be looking at porn and thinking “it’s alright, I didn’t fap so my streak is still intact, it’s all […]
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April 11, 2017 by David Orenstein A heartbreaking phenomenon of addiction is that just a brief stressful episode can trigger relapse. In a detailed new cocaine addiction study conducted in rat models, which closely parallel human addictive behavior, scientists have identified what appears to be taking place in the mammalian brain to make that happen […]
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