Originally Posted by sparkyx
…So, to summarize; -get rid of self condemnation
-you can look at porn if you really need to, but first do some strenuous physical exercise as the “price that must first be paid”
-multiple attempts and failures are part of the normal recovery and “slips” are not failures. Failure is when you quit trying.
-porn addiction is brain chemical imbalance and its tied into other stresses in your life. You must learn to deal with stressful areas in your life in more productive ways at the same time trying to overcome porn addiction.
Final thought, is you are only defeated when you give up.
Also, the more you look at it as “no big deal” the better you will do with it.
If you obsess with this day and nite, you will make it 1000X harder to succeed.
Originally Posted by firegoat
Aside from stress, which sparky so ably talked about, the other major trigger is boredom. One of the worst feelings of porn addiction is that, when you switch the porn off, you realise you just wasted a couple of hours of your life: you have something to show for the last couple of hours of your life.
Thanks, they are great advises. I’ll try to traduce them in practice.
Anyway, just thinking of it, it is damn true that “You must learn to deal with stressful areas in your life in more productive ways at the same time trying to overcome porn addiction”.
In most of my previous attempt to quit porn there always been a stress that I need to balance with porn. I have a lot of work to do with me. :)
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