Hi everyone, I’ve more recently noticed that you invest a lot of emotion, attraction and one could argue love into pixels on a screen which doesn’t return the favour. It’s no wonder relationships in real life is hard after that because the viewer is so used to feeling used. All those chemicals in the brain like dopamine and delta fos b are designed to help you connect to your significant other. When no reciprocation occurs you feel lonely and rejected. Don’t let P taint your mind into thinking there’s no one to love you. Real people will be more animated to see you while you’re off porn and things people say that are hurtful have less sting. Keep pushing through and reality will finally be better than fantasy. Good luck to everyone on here!
And attention right? Of course the way they harvest peoples attention is shallow in spite of it taking up a lot of time and eyeball hours, with the lame metric of the ubiquitous "Like." With real people you might think of all the stuff you know about them, even without actual or say video interaction and just words people can think about the other posts a given user has made on the forum for example and figure all that in. Real people have depth. The depth may not always be pleasant, it's just more complex. It doesn't even matter if people are well meaning, if the way they relate is more shallow/superficial they can't help because they are more relating to information about people than the people on the other end of the communication. So it's not even that it's worth it to invest in relating with real people, you actually NEED to in order to understand and for it to be meaningful beyond just all doing this thing where we abstain from PMO. But if everyone is used to kind of a flat image rather than really taking the whole person into consideration then it's going to be easier to gravitate towards porn. It's a bit like those ads where it says something like "Ice cream doesn't ask questions. Ice cream understands." Comfort, yes, understanding, no.
If it's NoFap related I promise the depression will pass. Otherwise stay strong and if you need a sounding board I'm here.
Great analogy and well said. You're tricking your brain into having a relationship with pixels when you use P.
Not really sure at this point. Its been like this for a week. I guess it'll pass like it always do... Thanks man, appreciate it!
