What is Standard Pornography Addiction
and How to Tackle it?
Definition of Standard Pornography Addiction
You have noticed that your consumption of pornography has been regular over the past months or years. You may have stopped watching pornography but you always found yourself back on it after a few days or a few weeks.
If you have taken our assessment test, this corresponds to a score between 48%-80%.
What it feels like:
At this stage you know well the rituals attached to your consumption of pornography. It may be the first thing that you do when you come back home, or you find yourself using pornography to fall asleep. The sexual themes you enjoy have narrowed and are falling into a routine.
Second order consequences are starting to be felt such as arguments with partners, the need to think about pornography in the sexual act or feeling lazy to go out and preferring to stay home on your screens.
You are starting to feel worried and entrapped but a part of you want to believe that they can stop pornography anytime they want.
Biggest risk:
Denial of the addiction and letting the compulsion taking over if left unaddressed.
Second-order consequences are starting to drain your resources
Positives:
The consequences are hard to deny and you feel motivated to get things under control before your situation worsens. Some parts of you are ready to find solutions and listen to experts and health professionals, in spite of resistance or skepticism about the existence of a problem at all.
Recovery:
It should take between 6 to 18 months for you to recover from Standard Pornography Addiction.
How to get over Moderate Pornography Addiction?
The base principles
To tackle any pornography addiction, the following 6 base principles can be used. If you seriously work on unlocking 3 out of these 6 principles, you won’t feel the need for pornography in your life anymore:
reduce stress
let go of shame
change your behaviour with pornography step-by-step
heal the root cause of the addiction (past traumas and unconscious emotional wounds)
live a fulfilled sex life
live with purpose
How to get better?
You need to understand the following points:
The exhausting cycle of success and relapse (quick fix) needs to be replaced with easy, definitive, manageable steps.
You need a simple but efficient method to help you decrease your pornography cravings step-by-step and over time for long-lasting results. When watching pornography, you will unconsciously make the experience 100% satisfying every time you watch it, reinforcing the attachment every time. Instead, you need to make the experience less good so you feel less attached.
Addiction is not the issue, addiction is a symptom of a deeper issue. You need to heal the root cause to heal the addiction.
You need therapy to tackle the root cause of your attachment to pornography. In the vast majority of cases, the compulsion to pornography is a response to past emotional trauma.
What’s the real reason why you watch pornography? (And why do you watch the specific pornography that you watch?)
You need specific education about addiction and how your mind finds a solution to its problems with pornography, and what to do about it. A lot of people suffering from this addiction focus on the behaviour (not watching pornography) but it cannot work because they do not understand the origin of this behaviour.
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