I am 16 years old and have been PMOing for about 3 years– roughly 1-2 times a day. I used to be very social in middle school until eighth grade when I began PMOing, I turned very depressed, anxious, lonely and sad. I hated my life. This continued up until this most recent streak I […]
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Iran J Psychiatry Behav Sci. 2015 Sep;9(3):e421. Naseri L1, Mohamadi J1, Sayehmiri K2, Azizpoor Y3. Author information 1Psychosocial Injuries Research Center, Ilam University of Medical Sciences, Ilam, IR Iran. 2Psychosocial Injuries Research Center, Ilam University of Medical Sciences, Ilam, IR Iran ; Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, Ilam University of Medical Sciences, Ilam, IR […]
JMIR Ment Health. 2015 Apr 22;2(2):e12. doi: 10.2196/mental.3805. Khazaal Y1, Achab S1, Billieux J2, Thorens G1, Zullino D1, Dufour M3, Rothen S1. Abstract BACKGROUND: The Internet Addiction Test (IAT) is the most widely used questionnaire to screen for problematic Internet use. Nevertheless, its factorial structure is still debated, which complicates comparisons among existing studies. Most […]
Addiction. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2015 Jul 1. Published in final edited form as: Addiction. 2014 Jul; 109(7): 1119–1127. doi: 10.1111/add.12537 PMCID: PMC4048632 NIHMSID: NIHMS575230 Giuseppe N. Giordano, PhD,1 Henrik Ohlsson, PhD,1 Kenneth S. Kendler, MD,2 Kristina Sundquist, MD, PhD,1,3 and Jan Sundquist, MD, PhD1,3 Author information ► Copyright and License information ► Abstract […]
Behav Neurosci. 2015 Jun; 129(3): 300–308. doi: 10.1037/bne0000059 PMCID: PMC4450884 Rebecca D. Burwell, Editor Nichola M. Brydges,1,2,* Megan C. Holmes,1 Anjanette P. Harris,1 Rudolf N. Cardinal,3,4,5 and Jeremy Hall6,7 1Centre for Cardiovascular Science, The University of Edinburgh 2Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute, Cardiff University School of Medicine 3Behavioral and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, Department […]
Maybe masturbation is healty with a very low dose, I have no idea about that. But what I know is: anyone is free to do anything he wants to do, if you want to stop porn/masturbation or if you want to keep going with PMO. It is your choice ! Personally I have stopped porn […]
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Comments: Here’s another case study showing that the drug Naltrexone helps porn addicts control their porn use (as a last resort). For a thorough, and brilliant, discussion of Naltrexone and porn addiction see this earlier case study. Link to Research Gate PDF of full paper American Journal of Psychiatry . 01/2016; In Press. DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2015.15060843 Shane […]
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This is going to long. I warned you. And it’s also going to be uncomfortable, even painful and scary. Hope is scary. And one of the main reasons people struggle with addiction is because they are scared of what’s inside themselves. I would also add that I have written this in one go, in five hours. […]
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PLoS One. 2015 Oct 2;10(10):e0139337. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0139337. Ching SM1, Yee A2, Ramachandran V3, Sazlly Lim SM4, Wan Sulaiman WA4, Foo YL4, Hoo FK4. Abstract INTRODUCTION: This study was initiated to determine the psychometric properties of the Smart Phone Addiction Scale (SAS) by translating and validating this scale into the Malay language (SAS-M), which is the […]
LINK TO STUDY Delia Fuhrmann Lisa J. Knoll Sarah-Jayne Blakemore Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, WCIN 3AR, London, UK Publication stage: In Press Corrected Proof DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2015.07.008 ARTICLE – Adolescent brain may be especially sensitive to new memories, social stress, and drug use September 23, 2015 Adolescence, like infancy, has been […]
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