Int J Neuropsychopharmacol. 2014 Oct 31;18(2). pii: pyu004. doi: 10.1093/ijnp/pyu004. Graf H1, Wiegers M2, Metzger CD2, Walter M2, Grön G2, Abler B2. Abstract BACKGROUND: Impaired sexual function is increasingly recognized as a side effect of psychopharmacological treatment. However, underlying mechanisms of action of the different drugs on sexual processing are still to be explored. Using […]
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I’ve been a lurker for the past 5 months and thought I would contribute since things seemed to have worked out for me, at least so far, and reading success stories played a huge role in getting me through some pretty tough times. I’ll give you some background but not too many details to preserve […]
Read More… from Age 37 – PIED and DE Cured (hopefully) After 5 Months.
Since it is a very good time of the year to start new resolutions, I wanted to share with you how my journey has been: First and foremost: I am 19 years old. I started my attempts of no PMO when I was 13, I relapsed at different stages: 1 month, 2, 4 and even […]
Read More… from Age 19 – Nearly 2 years of freedom
I finally stopped watching porn for good. For what I know, it ruined my life for maybe 5-7 years. That combined with weed, which came around in 3-4 years ago. At the time I thought it was the best thing to do. Little did I know that it would ruin my life. It was like […]
Read More… from This is awesome, I feel ALIVE.
I’m 45, currently in a committed relationship but addicted to PMO since grade school. Not so much hard core stuff, mostly magazines and some VHS videos that is until the birth of high speed internet. I’ve been married twice, several girlfriends and never suffered w PIED until just recently. I met someone about 6 months […]
Read More… from Age 45 – PIED & outlandish fetish porn: I seemed to be cured.
[Translated from Italian] Friends, the following story was summarized the facts and events in the PMO was present in my life. The story starts from zero for people who read can identify and see that there is light at end of tunnel for everything bad that are going through. EPISODE I – THE PHANTOM MENACE […]
Read More… from Age 23 – Revenge of a Rebooter
I started this when I was 16, in January 2015. I was fairly disturbed up to that point, fapping twice a day, sometimes more. I could only get off with pretty hardcore stuff. I swear, at that point I could watch a woman naked and it wouldn’t had made me horny. At fucking 16 years old. […]
Read More… from Age 17 – More social, confident, & active. I’m seeing women’s true beauty
LINK TO STUDY Eva H. Telzera, b, c, , Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Volume 17, February 2016, Pages 57–67 Abstract The prevailing view in the field of adolescent brain development is that heightened activity in the mesolimbic dopaminergic reward system serves as a liability, orienting adolescents toward risky behaviors, increasing their sensitivity to social evaluation and […]
Read More… from Dopaminergic reward sensitivity can promote adolescent health: A new perspective on the mechanism of ventral striatum activation (2016)
LINK TO PAPER Volume 16, December 2015, Pages 192–193 Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Substance Use and the Adolescent Brain: Developmental Impacts, Interventions, and Longitudinal Outcomes Jay N. Giedd Adolescence has long been recognized as a time of dramatic changes in body and behavior. More recently it is being recognized as a time of dramatic changes in […]
Read More… from Adolescent neuroscience of addiction: A new era (2015)
Brain Cogn. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2015 Aug 1. Published in final edited form as: Brain Cogn. 2014 Aug; 89: 27–38. Published online 2013 Oct 17. doi: 10.1016/j.bandc.2013.09.011 PMCID: PMC4226044 NIHMSID: NIHMS535184 Aarthi Padmanabhan1 and Beatriz Luna1 Author information ► Copyright and License information ► The publisher’s final edited version of this article […]
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