“The grueling, mysterious initiation one endures but never speaks of” “Flatlines… they are like being at a bottom of well and thinking you have no hope of getting out…. then one day just waking up and being out. So try and enjoy the peace and quiet of flatlines is my advice.” Our blog post Young […]
Read More… from Porn Recovery and The Mysterious Flatline (2013)
Int J High Risk Behav Addict. 2015 Dec; 4(4): e26359. Published online 2015 Dec 19. doi: 10.5812/ijhrba.26359 PMCID: PMC4744898 Ankur Sachdeva1,* and Rohit Verma2 Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► Go to: Abstract Introduction: The Internet is considered a beneficial tool in research, communication, and information. Still, its excessive and […]
Read More… from Internet Gaming Addiction: A Technological Hazard (2016)
Front Psychol. 2016; 7: 61. Published online 2016 Feb 2. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00061 PMCID: PMC4735728 Ines Wolz,1,2,† Ines Hilker,1,† Roser Granero,2,3 Susana Jiménez-Murcia,1,2,3 Ashley N. Gearhardt,5 Carlos Dieguez,2,6 Felipe F. Casanueva,2,7 Ana B. Crujeiras,2,7 José M. Menchón,1,3,8 and Fernando Fernández-Aranda1,2,4,* Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► Go to: Abstract Objectives: The […]
Read More… from “Food Addiction” in Patients with Eating Disorders is Associated with Negative Urgency and Difficulties to Focus on Long-Term Goals (2016)
I decided to quit fapping about three years ago. I was sick of feeling sluggish, and my relationships with women were very closed. Subconsciously I’m sure I knew my pmo habits were unhealthy, but seeing as how everyone I knew watched porn I thought that there must be some other cause to my dysfunction. On […]
Read More… from Age 24 – Roughly 3 years in. How things changed for me.
According to Dr. Anthony Jack, a professor of neuroscience with 20 years of education and research experience in the field, access to internet pornography is qualitatively and quantitatively different from the pornography to which humanity used to have access (and rest assured, we have always had access to it). He believes that pornography, furthermore, is seriously […]
Read More… from Porn addiction rampant, says neuroscientist
Biomed Res Int. 2014; 2014: 315062. Published online 2014 Jul 14. doi: 10.1155/2014/315062 PMCID: PMC4122146 Susana Jiménez-Murcia, 1 , 2 , 3 ,* Fernando Fernández-Aranda, 1 , 2 , 3 Roser Granero, 2 , 4 Mariano Chóliz, 5 Melania La Verde, 6 Eugenio Aguglia, 6 Maria S. Signorelli, 6 Gustavo M. Sá, 7 Neus Aymamí, […]
Read More… from Video Game Addiction in Gambling Disorder: Clinical, Psychopathological, and Personality Correlates (2014)
I don’t like posting my own success story, nor do I even like calling it that. In a way the struggle we face is so odd, because we are struggling to just get back into our normal bodies. We have fallen below the realm of reason and logic, trying to dig upwards towards the surface […]
Read More… from Several long streaks
It is my intention to provide you with information and key points from my journey, highlighting valuable aspects that you can take with you. I hope, then, that it will be of benefit and motivation in your endeavours. Before I want to start, I wish to put a few qualifiers down. Some or all may […]
Read More… from Age 25 – 2+ years: More energy and motivation, Increased social confidence & agressiveness, Gained new hobbies, created new habits
Front Syst Neurosci. 2014; 8: 230. Published online 2014 Dec 9. doi: 10.3389/fnsys.2014.00230 PMCID: PMC4260491 Danai Riga,† Mariana R. Matos,† Annet Glas, August B. Smit, Sabine Spijker, and Michel C. Van den Oever* Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► This article has been cited by other articles in PMC. Go […]
Read More… from Optogenetic dissection of medial prefrontal cortex circuitry (2014)
Neuropsychopharmacology. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2010 Dec 1. Published in final edited form as: Neuropsychopharmacology. 2009 Dec; 34(13): 2758–2766. Published online 2009 Sep 9. doi: 10.1038/sj.npp.npp2009124 PMCID: PMC2972251 CAMSID: CAMS1534 Thilo van Eimeren,1,2,3 Bénédicte Ballanger,1,3 Giovanna Pellecchia,1,3 Janis M Miyasaki,2Anthony E Lang,2 and Antonio P Strafella1,2,3,* Author information ► Copyright and License information ► The publisher’s final edited version of this article is available free […]
Read More… from Dopamine Agonists Diminish Value Sensitivity of the Orbitofrontal Cortex: A Trigger for Pathological Gambling in Parkinson’s Disease? (2009)