Have you heard these claims a lot recently? Or perhaps even believed they are true? Religious populations have higher rates of porn use than their secular brethren, and lie about it. Religious porn users are not really addicted to porn; they only believe they are addicted because they are ashamed. Believing in porn addiction is […]
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Psychiatry Research LiLua1DanDan Xuab1Huan-ZhongLiucd1LingZhange1Chee H.NgfGabor S.UngvarigFeng-RongAneYu-TaoXianga https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2018.07.005 Highlights Internet addiction (IA) is an emerging public health problem amongst young people, but no data exist in Tibetan middle school students. The overall prevalence of IA was 14.1%, with 15.9% in Tibetan students and 12.0% in Han students. Internet addiction was also associated with significant lower quality […]
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https://wwjournals.com/index.php/ijsr/article/view/2959 Rosângela M. Müller, Vera Regina Levien, Elaine Pinto Albernaz Abstract Internet addiction is characterized as a compulsive-impulsive spectrum disorder and it has four components: excessive use, withdrawal, tolerance and negative repercussions. The objective of this study is to review the world literature regarding the prevalence of Internet addiction and to verify comorbidities associated with […]
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I am a 20something year old man who’s wasted close to 10 years on dirty movies and PMO. I never had formal knowledge as to what sex was and why PMO is so detrimental to your life in almost every way and I basically had to fight the fight on my own. I used to […]
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Hypersexual Disorder and Preoccupation With Internet Pornography Dan J. Stein, M.D., Ph.D.,Donald W. Black, M.D.,Nathan A. Shapira, M.D., Ph.D., andRobert L. Spitzer, M.D. Published Online: 1 Oct 2001 https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.158.10.1590 To protect patient anonymity, the case presented here includes features from two separate patients, and additional changes to details have been made to disguise identity. Case […]
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It was over two years ago when I first discovered Nofap. My best friend and I, in our last year of flight school, had just finished up a series of oddjobs in the city to get some extra booze money. It was late and it was a school night, and we had a two hour […]
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From a PMO, weed, drugs, cigarettes, paid sex addict to become a clean person now in just 4 months has been a great achievement from me. Perhaps, I have sunken down so low that the only way to go was up. And the past has been a great lesson for me to realize how brainwashed […]
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Comments: Porn addiction naysayers make the claim that viewing nature is no different neurologically than viewing porn. Of course this claim is nonsense – as this study shows. Evgenii Kim, MSc, Sungchul Kim, MSc, Phillips V. Zephaniah, MSc, Songhyun Lee, PhD, Eloise Anguluan, MSc, Kwangsung Park, MD, PhD, Jae Gwan Kim, PhD DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esxm.2018.05.001 Abstract […]
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My Nofap journey has been truly transformative over the last few months. I can say with full certainty who I was when I began this path is no longer who I am today. I feel transformed, empowered, and rejuvenated in so many ways. With that said, I can also say from experience that Nofap alone […]
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I had never really thought about dedicating myself that much to NoFap, but after being active in the personal development community for many years, and being a long-time lurker on /r/nofap, I decided to go all-in and prove myself that I would never be a supporter of the porn industry again, and I would never […]
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