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OCD due to rebooting?

Discussion in 'Rebooting - Porn Addiction Recovery' started by Roger Michaels, Mar 31, 2018.

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  1. Mar 31, 2018 #1
    Roger Michaels

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    I started to develop some serious anxiety after i got addicted to porn. i have visual snow, which i thought was drug induced, but i feel like maybe its a mix of both.

    Anyways, ever since i started watching porn ive had obsessions as to what may or may not be wrong with me, i have intrusive thoughts also.

    Recently ive been having more and more intrusive thoughts, my dreams are more vivid and intense, i wake up with a song or a quote stuck in my head for no apparent reason, and the last two days ive been getting images popping in my head.

    It doesnt really bother me a whole lot as i assume its probably due to me rebooting; but am kinda curious if anyone can relate or is aware if this is common or not.
     
    Roger Michaels, Mar 31, 2018
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  2. Mar 31, 2018 #2
    diddykong

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    https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/porn-making-my-social-anxietyconfidencedepressionocd-worse

    What you have doesn't sound like OCD - intrusive thoughts are normal. Remember that your brain is going to change as it rewires. Old pathways are going to extinct and new ones will form. I did get some vivid dreams (including dreams of watching porn) whilst rebooting - that's part of the process for most people. When you abruptly stop doing something that you've been doing for a long time your brain has to make sense of that somehow and dreams are one way that it does it.
     
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