How to know if I addicted?

Agreed!

 

According to some; intervals of days or weeks of abstinence may actually make the addiction worse. Waiting 3 days is not going to do much in term of weakening the addiction's grip on your life. It may feel like it, but that way you are actually training your brain's reward center even more in terms of pmo dependence. It will know what's coming. Much like Pavlov's dogs... Your aim needs to be impulse control.

Pmo can most certainly affect your mood, particularly when you stop or try stopping the habit. Pmo affects the brain in ways that are hard to understand when you're still addicted. You CAN stop the habit by learning to redirect your energy when you feel the urge to indulge. Look up hypofrontality. What happens in pmo addiction is that the part of your brain responsible for making good decisions, the frontal lobes, is in fact underactive (reduced blood flow even).

Instead of giving in to the urge, you'll have to learn to think about the consequences. "how will this make me feel after doing it?"... Then set goals, practice healthy, more productive habits, all of which will train your will power, and you'll slowly learn how to claim back life.

 

Do you do your tasks with a lot of joy, contentment and focus, or do you dislike them and is your mind filled with desire to pmo when you have to do something else? Perhaps this is really what you need to ask yourself, because addiction has a very strange way of making you feel as if it's "not that bad." I think most if not everyone on here will agree with that.