The American psychiatric association has not yet recognized porn addiction as the disease but many other studies and medical commuting has put it as a behavioral disorder. Any addiction is not just happened into once experience or twice but addiction goes through the stages of gradual stages and take the form of extreme peak habit which is named as addiction.
What is Porn addiction?
The whole behavioral addiction is dependent on triggering the reward system of the brain and getting you the feeling of pleasure by releasing serotonin and dopamine. The pornography excites you easily, the way and with the ease you get the feeling of pleasure, it’s only that feeling which brings you again and again in front of the screen.
Porn addiction is getting addict of seeing, watching the sexual content, and you can not resist yourself to watch those photos, videos or the kind of content which excites you sexually.
Porn addiction recovery.
By study we have got this, porn addiction or any addiction goes through certain phases and hence this addiction goes by 4 stages.
4 stages of porn addiction.
- The stage of amusement.
When you just first encounter the existence of this kind of content it is seen by peers. And you discuss as per your thought process that you liked it or not.
2. Acceptance stage.
This is the stage where this pornography seems to be very normalized by this society s you get into it to remove the craving that you get during the stage of development and body change and the expulsion of massive hormonal change.
3. Justified by reports, videos and podcasts.
When you get into habit of watching it so now you try to justify your this kind of behavior by doctoral statements, by you tube expertise and reports that pornography is normal and it doesn’t affect anything to you in the bad way, which is of course wrong but then at that state you are actually not so in that conscious condition.
4. Realization and the stage of awareness.
Now you start to realize the harmful effects like tiredness and always being in the loop of same thoughts and getting the fear of outcasting thinking as compared to the others so you get aware and from this stage it’s up to you.
From here you decide to take a U-turn or go their forward way for getting into the deep trap of addiction. If from here’s you want to take your steps in the backward direction so you try to start small efforts like no fapping, etc.
Porn addiction symptoms.
The twelve signs of porn addiction.
- Only that thought circulates.
When You Are into porn addiction you see, only one thought goes into your mind that is about the porn and stuff related to it.
2. Distancing from the real world.
You try to get the happiness of the real world into this addiction and now you don’t want to be interactive to the people of your social world.
3. Every solution lies in it.
Whenever anything bad, good happens to you. Your every solution now lies into this addiction and you try to find your happiness into it which is not a good thing.
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4. Irritable behavior.
When you don’t get time for watching porn you might get irritated to the small and over react. Small small thing will make you irritated and not feel good and upset.
5. No interest in your partner.
This thing might be harmful to your partner because now you only take an interest in porn and not in your partner and no sexual excitement they gave as per your level and sometimes this behavior of yours might hurt them a lot.
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6. The Phantom expectations.
You now have expectations of that good to be in bed from your partner and when they don’t do things in a certain way and those sexual activities which you want from them because they are unrealistic.
7. Stealing the time task.
No matter how important are other things to you but you always try to make your spare time for watching porn because you are now into porn addiction.
8. Denying state.
Every addiction reflects its signs in your behavior and when people make you aware of these things you react in a sudden denial and might get angry at them.
9. You don’t want to stop.
Despite knowing it’s bad effects you don’t want a stoppage of any kind. You want it more and in a more sophisticated manner to get more pleasure.
10. You want it more.
A time will come into this addiction where that same thing which excited you earlier doesn’t excite you any more because now your brain rewiring and functioning is in such a way that it wants something at an extreme and more way to get the same level of pleasure feeling.
11. Physical pain.
Despite going through the pain that you are getting at the mental/physical and emotional level. You still consume it which is harmful and dangerous.
12. Distracted and destruction of happy thoughts.
You notice your thought pattern after getting into this addiction and the way you were before such things and you will end up being sad and upset not having that
addiction-free life but hopes are a greater savior.
13. The guilt with the confrontation of reality.
Reality makes you upset now that things aren’t like what you see and you get nothing from that stuff. The more you get into reality the more you will be guilty of what I am doing and why you are doing this kind of thing with me but I think confrontation is good and the sooner this confrontation gets you the easier it becomes for you to get out of it.
14. Lost interest in everything.
Whenever we do something new or exciting which gives us happiness, happy hormones do release within us like doing your favorite exercise, or talking to our best friend and playing your favorite song. But now these joyous activities don’t entertain you anymore and the reason is the porn addiction.
Porn addiction help.
Of course there is hope of getting fully out of porn addiction:
● Getting behavioral therapies like cognitive behavioral therapy and counseling and to have a talk with medical experts who do hypnotherapy.
● Take Your No fap Challenge. Remember in the starting take short challenges like 15 days or 10 days then it will motivate you and then take bigger challenges.
● Listen to the success stories of the people who get out of such things and addiction and this will give you insight and a strong reason to get out of it.
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