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tulkas

 Used to be addicted to porn. Now I am totally free. Two years and counting.
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Anonymous 12w

Let’s goooo God bless!

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Anonymous 12w

i’m so proud of you ❤️

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Anonymous 12w

Do you still jork it or was it totally cold turkey

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Anonymous 12w

How’d you do it (coming from someone who may be addicted)

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Anonymous 12w

How much porn does one have to watch to be deemed “addicted”?

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Anonymous 12w

I’m curious how you feel OP

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Anonymous 12w

Almost read that as “two years and coming “…but that would be so wrong

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Anonymous 12w

Also, maybe there’s a distinction to be made between being addicted to porn and being addicted to masturbating. I don’t think some “release” now and then is necessarily bad – but the thing about porn is that the searches can easily get too extreme the more you view it.

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Anonymous 12w

Man, I wish. I keep relapsing once I get a couple months clean

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 12w

How does one even get addicted to porn like I’m genuinely curious

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 12w

Just like anything that jacks dopamine. Your brain gets used to the elevated levels and craves more, you need more and more to feel the same way so the behavior escalates. Things that normally raise dopamine don’t even produce enough to register so everything else becomes less enjoyable. Thus the behavior becomes compulsive. Far from being a fringe phenomenon pornography has been proven to be extremely (like illicit drug level.) addictive.

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Anonymous 12w

I’m proud of you OP. That’s a hard monkey to kick off your back and you should feel proud you did. It takes actual strength of character to do something like that.

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 12w

Have you ever watched my strange addiction? Ppl can be addicted to anything dawg

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 12w

Thanks

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Anonymous replying to -> #10 12w

Like a very distant memory

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Anonymous replying to -> #13 12w

But I also started it wayyyy too young so maybe my brain is permanently hooked

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Anonymous replying to -> #11 12w

DM me

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Anonymous replying to -> #13 12w

No. You can get past it, as indicated by the fact that you get through the most difficult part (the initial phase.) Repeatedly. You’re having trouble with the long term struggle which is totally normal. It might help to read up on how other people broke through that barrier before, or reach out to a resource group for help.

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 12w

Thanks man

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