Age 21 – Good progress! (HOCD)
[Age 21, one-year report] I haven’t posted in my blog in such a long time, I’ve been pretty busy with life in general while making good progress with my addiction.
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Five-Month Update
So it’s been 5 months (or roughly 20 weeks) since I’ve last looked at porn. Here’s what’s been happening:
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(L) Impotence Linked to Restless Legs Syndrome (2011)
COMMENTS: This study found that both restless legs and erectile dysfunction have low dopamine in common. I say that porn-induced ED is caused by low dopamine and dopamine D2 receptors. This study goes a long way to confirm part of my theory.
The more frequent the symptoms, the stronger the connection, study finds
Posted: June 15, 2011
WEDNESDAY, June 15 (HealthDay News) — Men who struggle with restless legs syndrome face a higher risk of impotence, a new study suggests.
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Age 27 – (ED) A 3-Year report
My sexual experiences in college were horrifying… total inability to have any kind of erection while making out, etc., very low libido. I didn’t know what was wrong with me but I knew it wasn’t good. I was aware of being completely unable to relax my PC muscles when I would be with a girl. […]
Activation of Mirror-Neuron System by Erotic Video Clips Predicts Degree of Induced Erection: An fMRI Study (2008)
COMMENTS: Mirror neurons are activated when we watch porn videos. This may mean that static pictures, like old Playboys, are far less compelling and addictive than videos. Below is an excerpt about mirror neurons from this site:
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Age 27 – “No Viagra – First Time in 4 Years” (ED)
[First post] I’ll keep my story brief (27yrs, male). Over the past several years, I’ve suffered increasingly worse symptoms of ED. After a breakup with my first love at 21, I began to experience soft erections whenever a condom was involved, but fine without it. Around 23, I began dating a girl and I couldn’t […]
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Vibrators and Other Pleasures: When Moderation Fails (2011)
[Also see Vibrators and “Dead Vagina Syndrome” (research and mainstream press)] Can you use sex toys or Internet erotica in moderation? The answer lies in your brain—not in any external advice, wisdom or dogma. It depends on the state of your reward circuitry, your brain’s ancient appetite mechanism. Sure, your brain may be particularly vulnerable […]
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“Vagina arousal fear”
I’m not pretending to be an expert or anything, but I’ve been dealing with this for quite a while and I’m making decent progress with it.
After a bad sexual experience (my first since my porn addiction) I didn’t feel a lot of arousal with a woman as well (she was a lot older than me, like your experience) and I started thinking: “Maybe I am gay?” This was foolish, as I’m not sexually excited by men, nor do I have an intense urge to love or have sex with them, but the whole point of HOCD is to make you worry and obsess.
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My first 38 days
Day 10 of no P –3 days no M/O.
Been feeling really numb and glum for the last 4 days, and had the vague feeling of having felt like this before once. I remembered today that it was after I broke up with a girl that I’d been living with for 2 years. I felt like this for several months.
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Gary Wilson’s comment on Rebuttal by Reid, et al
Reid, et al are certainly correct that not all compulsive porn users are the same. In fact, I’m sure Hilton and Watts would agree that there are porn users with serious issues, such as AIDS or mental illness, who benefit from counseling and medication. We see a few of them on our forum, too. We also agree that it is not helpful to those recovering to imply they have permanent brain damage, although it’s doubtful this was Hilton and Watt’s intent in explaining the relevance of hypofrontality research.
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