It gets into addictions without drugs further down but the key take-aways for me were: "They had measured electrical activity in neurons in cocaine-seeking rats and discovered that a region of the brain involved in inhibiting behavior was abnormally quiet." - For me, understanding that the thought processes that might inhibit me from doing something (and doing it right away) are gone makes total sense. When I wanted to PMO yesterday I thought, "yeah, the whole part of my brain that might think I maybe shouldn't do that right now is eroded!" It helped me to prevent myself from going through with it. It's not just craving. The parts of my brain that are involved in decision making, inhibiting behaviour and evaluating rewards are destroyed. I am not making plans and assessing what is good or bad for me like other people. I think understanding that will help me to do something about it and hopefully my brain will heal in time. full article: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/09/the-addicted-brain/
I spent 2010 - 2012 drinking myself into oblivion and that's when my porn addiction went from bad to out of control.
Thanks for sharing! That really helps to create some awareness and some good cognitive strategies to talk back to the addiction.
just wondering how alcohol is effecting your addictions. Is it when you're drinking, or the day after? For me, drinking kills my sex drive, but if I over do it and get a hangover, then I get crazy urges.
Absolutely! For me also weed.. thats why I quit alcohol and weed.. I'd just think "fuck it" Im gonna do it.. and regret later Stay away from both if you want to succeed
Been sober for nearly 1000 days myself, from alcohol, weed, cocaine and porn. All of these substances and behaviours manifested at different times in my life and all fed into each other essentially becoming part of a poor coping strategy, whether it was celebrating or drowning my sorrows. I don't believe I would have been able to properly quit porn had I not also dealt with the other mind altering substances too, since they do lower your inhibitions, i've come to appreciate inhibitions as a good thing these days since it's the grown up part of my mind, the sensible part which keeps me in check. It's a difficult hill to climb but if I can do it you can, i never thought i could do it 3 years ago and felt stuck in a cycle of chaos but now i learn to take calculated risks which are positive, like whether or not I should go to a meet up or if i should try and talk to the girl behind the counter. Sometimes we have to learn how to be comfortable with the mundane and plan for the future.
