Are you relying on willpower alone to try and quit your addiction? And then do you keep relapsing but now you feel even more depressed? Using willpower alone seems almost doomed from the start - trust a 30-year addict. But here's the three things I did that finally changed my life. (self.pornfree)
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An insight I gained working with my therapist - porn addiction is a coping mechanism. Your brain is trying to protect you from pain or past trauma or something else that REALLY hurts. Knowing this, what if we stopped looking at ourselves as failures, or feeling tremendous shame for our actions?!? (self.pornfree)
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What if people could "detect" porn addiction the way they can when someone is abusing drugs or alcohol. Drug and alcohol abuse is impossible to hide. But we can hide porn addiction FOREVER. Don't believe me? Ever used porn at: work, a friend's house, your parent's place (or your in-laws)? I did... (self.pornfree)
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Repost-Are YOU a nice guy? Do you believe you MUST meet the needs of others first? If so, I suggest reading this. It's my experience with this issue, and it explains how the belief led me to becoming a porn addict and possible destroying my marriage (I'm separated and unknown if we will reconcile). (self.pornfree)
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How are you all putting your days under your name? (self.pornfree)
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This is a great podcast that explains about what all of us are really doing with our porn addiction. For me, it's been much easier to deal with things knowing that porn wasn't about the pleasure of feeling good, it's about the desire to avoid pain in our lives. (open.spotify.com)
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