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You’re addicted because you allow it.

Discussion in 'Off-topic Discussion' started by Leanmaxxing, Jun 17, 2023.

  1. Jun 17, 2023 #1
    Leanmaxxing

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    I’ve been contemplating on the topic of addiction as an addict myself. And I came to the conclusion that an addiction can only form when you allow yourself to indulge in a vice excessively and consistently to the point that it can be called an addiction.

    When you get that first dopamine rush from fapping or drugs. Your neuron-transmitters implants a new option in your brain. Now that desire for that unique feeling linked to the pleasurable habit is installed and activated. All you need to do to get yourself hooked indefinitely is to allow yourself to experience the feeling again and again until it becomes an addiction. No one gets addicted after one beer, one cigarette or fapping once to porn but we allow ourselves to do many times and that’s when it becomes an addiction.

    Think about other types of addictions that you don’t have but others do. I don’t have a gambling addiction or alcohol addiction because I simply don’t allow myself to indulge in those activities at an excessive or consistent rate. But I allowed myself to fap again and again to porn on a daily basis so over time I became addicted to that.
     
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  2. Jun 17, 2023 #2
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    Truer words were never spoken. Thank you for that insight!
     
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  3. Jun 17, 2023 #3
    Windowpain

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    Definitely. Frequency is the thread. Habits run the system, don’t ruin the system by allowing destructive habits in. Monitoring your behaviors and environment constantly will ensure success. There are only so my habits, choose wisely.
     
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  4. Jun 17, 2023 #4
    UnholyConfessor

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    You're right, but I feel like it's comparatively "easier" to get addicted to PMO than to say, hard drugs, for most people. Not to mention everyone knows drugs are bad for you, even the people who actually take them. Meanwhile we still live in a society where porn is classed as a good thing and hardly anyone tells you not to jerk off. Porn is to us what cigarettes were to people in the 50's, pushed as a healthy thing with no drawbacks despite that being tragically false.
     
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  5. Jun 17, 2023 #5
    UnholyConfessor

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    Is your avatar Sora with clown makeup on lmao?
     
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  6. Jun 17, 2023 #6
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    Yes lmao
     
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  7. Jun 17, 2023 #7
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    Thoughts become actions, which become habits, which become compulsions, which becomes addiction.

    The further down the rabbit whole you go the less willpower you have, which means your ability to just stop doing it is decreased. This is why it’s important to guard your thoughts.
     
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  8. Jun 23, 2023 #8
    3nigma

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    "The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken."
     
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