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The Reason for addicition

Discussion in 'Rebooting - Porn Addiction Recovery' started by Hope777, Feb 23, 2016.

  1. Hope777

    Hope777 Fapstronaut

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    So I stumbled upon this video on youtube, its a TED Talk. As hard as it is for me to admit it, I would have to agree with it. He explains that the reason we go to addiction is because we simply have nothing better to do. We have miserable lives and we want to run away from it, so we start numbing ourselves to all negative feeling and emotions that we are experiencing, but that leads to losing the good ones as well. Eventually we loose our lives and get stuck in this addiction loop. Some might argue that they have a girlfriend they have good lives but they still go watch porn and that they just cant stop, but the truth is YOU ARE NOT EXPERIENCING THESE MOMENTS AND FEELINGS LIKE OTHERS BECAUSE YOU ARE NUMBED TO IT ALTHOUGH YOU SHOULD BE TECHNICALLY EXPERIENCING IT. Being in a relationship while watching porn is completely different than without it. The biggest problem is that you are satisfied in your bubble that you have created. You dont feel the need to change because you feel that this is all what life has to offer. While the actual truth is life is full of more colors than what you just know at the moment. You will have to work hard, create a social life, make friends, become successful, become proud of yourself. When you have those, you will choose them over any addiction any time because the positive emotions that a successful person experience are way stronger than any addiction. When you start quitting addiction (PMO for say) you will start experiencing emotions again the good and the bad. Its like building back the fuel to engine your life, the one you lost and made you life so dull. You will start then experiencing the positive feelings, satisfaction, happiness that comes with progress in whatever you think is success. At that point, you will find that you need porn less often because you have something better now. Thats why it gets easier as you go on. The first step is always the hardest. When you quit PMO you will start getting motivated to work hard in everything and become the best person you could be. And when you succeed. That success will become your addiction after. You will love it so much because it is so much more pleasurable than watching porn. Your not trying to hide and run away from life now. You want to experience it to the fullest. Therefore, bare with me all you people, the struggle will soon fade and soon we will all find that there is so much beauty in life that we wont want to run away from anymore. So in short, when you build your perfect life, you will never want to return to porn, infact it will be harder to convince yourself to give in to porn, when you got all this beauty to give up. How do you build your perfect life? Well first you have to find it in yourself to quit the addiction and then when your feeling come back to life, you will face back all the bad emotions you been running away from, but you will also experience positive emotions around somewhere. Ones that you didnt experience when you were stuck in you addiction and soon you will start to focus on them only and build them and make more of them. Until you find that your life is full of positive emotions, success and happiness. NO PMO = Fuel to motivation and becoming the best version of yourself. Here is a link to the video I watched, defiantly he explains it better :
    Also My journal link that I just started: https://www.nofap.com/forum/index.php?threads/journal-my-road-to-success.59909/
    Good Luck everyone !!
     
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