There’s no simplistic answer for this, as everyone is different. However, there are some typical signposts:
This book by Robert Glover is often recommended by recovering men to each other. Here’s one guy’s review:
Today I picked up a book that was recommended by forum member workingonit called No More Mr. Nice Guy. It’s about so called “Nice Guy” syndrome.
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COMMENTS: This describes a study (Neural Correlates of Food Addiction) that is first to compare brain activation patterns of “food addicts”. Other studies have looked at the brains of obese humans. Some the women in this study classified as food addicts were not obese. The results: brain activation of food addicts matches that of drug addicts.
Here’s a very important quote:
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Read More… from (L) Food Addiction, Substance Dependence Share Common Ground (2011)
COMMENTS: Simply a well done paper on addiction mechanisms.
Full Study: Neurobiologic Processes in Drug Reward and Addiction
Bryon Adinoff, MD
Harv Rev Psychiatry. 2004; 12(6): 305–320.
doi: 10.1080/10673220490910844.
Bryon Adinoff, From the Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, and VA North Texas Health Care System, Dallas, TX.
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Read More… from Neurobiologic Processes in Drug Reward and Addiction (2004)
COMMENTS: This an overview of the frontal cortex’s involvement in addiction. This part of the brain is all about planning and achieving goals. Changes in the frontal cortex leads to strong urges to take drugs. It’s as if you are starving, and you must eat no matter what. Changes also lead a steep decline in frontal lobe functioning during withdrawal. One is missing the drive to do normal everyday activity’s.
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Thoughts of a forum member: I have a feeling that I may be shortly spreading my wings a little and leaving this amazing nest that Marnia and Gary have built (thank you so much!) for slightly longer flights. I will try to come back frequently, but I’m not sure how much more I’ll have to […]
COMMENTS: This study on obesity, focused on dopamine (D2) receptors and their relationship to frontal lobe functioning. This research, by the head of the NIDA, shows that overeaters brains are like those of drug addicts in the two mechanisms examined. Like drug addicts, the obese have low D2 receptors, and hypofrontality. Low D2 receptors is […]
COMMENTS: This study on obesity, focused on dopamine (D2) receptors and their relationship to frontal lobe functioning. This research, by the head of the NIDA, shows that over eaters brains are like those of drug addicts in the two mechanisms examined. Like drug addicts, the obese have low D2 receptors, and hypofrontality. Low D2 receptors […]
COMMENTS: You can read the lay articles below for a better understanding. As the conclusions say, those who score high on a food addiction test had brain responses to food similar to drug addicts response to drugs. The two similarities were: 1) Excessive activation of the reward circuitry we given cues (pictures of food) 2) […]
Here’s a sampling of self-reports of various men who have experienced porn-related ED
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