If I told you that there’s an easy way to quit porn you’ll no doubt think that this is sensationalist marketing designed to tug at your insecurities until your wallet falls out, because you’ve tried to quit porn and it’s actually really f*cking difficult!
I hear you, but with all due respect, your way is really difficult. Now it’s time to give my way a chance.
I don’t really want to stop, but I know I have to stop if I want to recover, so if I can just resist the urge long enough, eventually I will recover
Thinking like this sets you up for failure. It creates a sense of sacrifice, as if you are giving something up, rather than freeing yourself from the shackles.
It is not enough to just avoid porn for a while. A change needs to happen in the way that you think and feel, as well as deconstructing associations you have created around porn and how you see it fit in your life, otherwise you can expect years of relapsing.
Compulsive use of pornography reconditions the way your brain responds to certain stimuli. In this case it is the release of dopamine, a chemical that is a key player in your brain’s reward circuitry, which changes the way it behaves.
Your brain’s reward system tries to control and regulate behavior by prompting pleasurable feelings via its complex brain structures. These rewards tend to reinforce the behavior that induced the reward to begin with, and as is the case in addiction, this can lead to a downward spiral as the addict struggles to flood his system with more… Read more…
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