Words to the wise from recovering users:
I was constantly tempted by old sites contacting me, or people I knew sending me inappropriate Emails. My last slip, the most disturbing slip, was because I checked an old Email account.
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Said one guy:
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At best, drugs like Viagra and Cialis will mask your impotence problem temporarily. They don’t “cure” anything. They only address symptoms, and they only do so for a matter of hours. Consider this man’s story:
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More evidence in humans of changes seen in animals – numbed pleasure response from overstimulation. A decline in reward activity associated with dopamine dysregulation. This is what is probably occurring with porn addiction – but no one studies it.
Weight Gain Seems to Change the Brains Response to Food
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Read More… from Weight Gain Seems to Change the Brains Response to Food (Dopamine) (2010)
COMMENTS: This article (see the study below) is about dopamine imbalances. Imbalances can be genetic or induced, or both. They take the form of high or low dopamine sensitivity (receptors), or high or low levels of dopamine. A common effect of addiction is having low sensitivity, yet releasing high levels in response to addiction cues. I […]
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Watch Gabe Deem’s video about using porn to get to sleep on RebootNation.org Comments from two men: More stress=more masturbation. Frequency goes way up nearing finals and before a paper is due. It’s a stress reliever and clears the brain so you can focus. Not long after orgasm (sometimes even ten minutes later) I am […]
by psychiatrist Richard A Friedman
As everyone knows, sex feels good.
Or does it? In recent years, I’ve come across several patients for whom sex is not just unpleasurable; it actually seems to cause harm.
One patient, a young man in his mid-20s, described it this way: “After sex, I feel literally achy and depressed for about a day.”
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Although this section is named “Porn Use & Sex Addiction Studies,” Internet porn addiction is not really sex addiction (see Porn Addiction Is Not Sex Addiction–And Why It Matters). Internet porn addiction is considered by many experts to be a subset of internet addiction. YBOP has created several lists of porn studies. An (L) in […]
Researchers have found a naturally occurring protein that gets rats addicted with no drugs at all.
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Read More… from (L) BDNF – Flipping The Brain’s Addiction Switch Without Drugs (2009)
