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Here’s one guy’s creative solution to getting past the first few days of withdrawal cravings
I made quite a few attempts at “rebooting”, but ultimately couldn’t make it past first four full days. Until I tried a different approach, similar to what I used when I was trying to stop myself from (1) constantly drinking excessive amounts of coffee and (2) playing computer games.
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Finally, the American Society of Addiction Medicine has acted, since the DSM would not. The Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders work group for the upcoming Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) is currently discussing whether to demote the proposed “Hypersexual Disorder” (which addresses compulsive porn use, among other behaviors) from Sexual Dysfunctions to […]
Read More… from DSM-5 Attempts to Sweep Porn Addiction Under the Rug (2011)
COMMENTS: This a lay version of Dr. Hilton’s “Pornography Addiction: A Neuroscience Perspective”, that is found in this same section. he makes some interesting points about mirror neurons and deltafosb, that we have yet to discuss. He is convinced, as we are, that natural rewards can be addictive and cause the same fundamental brain changes as drugs. We emphasize how dopamine is affected by the novelty of Internet porn, the seeking of users, ever shocking material. Our point is that Internet porn is different from porn of the recent past in how it affects the dopamine systems.
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Read More… from Can Pornography Use Become An Actual Brain Addiction? (2011)
Addiction researchers speak of a phenomenon called “conditioned place preference” as being a big factor in relapse. If researchers move rats from the cage in which they became hooked on a drug to another cage and offer them the drug, they often won’t use it. But if they return them to the original cage, the rats almost always begin using again.
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Heavy users in the study were much more likely to report problems with their jobs, relationships and sex lives.
Newsbeat teamed up with doctors from the Portman Clinic for the report, the first of its kind in the UK.
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Read More… from (L) Men ‘Worried’ About Heavy Internet Porn Use (2011)
This guy explains why many former porn users have to go through a period of grieving to complete the process of returning to normal.
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Read More… from Why am I feeling so sad about giving up porn?
Gary and Marnia wrote this article for an academic journal called The Evolutionary Review. I couldn’t get a proper PDF of it, so here’s the galley proof for those of you who would like to read it: The Great Porn Experiment “The collision of widespread internet porn use with man’s ancient mammalian brain constitutes one […]
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 […]