It’s a constant battle. It used to really mess up my life, but things have turned to the better, especially after they put me on original zyprexa my life quality is substantially better.
On the generic I was on before I hardly slept at all. It was a huge problem healthwise. I drank alcohol and watched porn to momentarily escape the living hell. Ofcourse in the long run it only made things even worse.
Now porn isn’t a big problem anymore. I think I watched less than
10 hours so far this year. The goal is to get down to zero though, because it’s still a destructive force in my life.
In my forties and fifties I thought I was addicted to porn. I watched it a few times a day, every day. Now in my sixties I guess I wasn’t addicted because I don’t need it. I can watch it once every three days and don’t even think about it. I forget about it.
The thing about porn that bugs me is that the algorithms they use are geared towards ever increasing perversion and deviance.
They post loads of dirty, evil stuff in the hope of directing you to filither and filthier stuff.
It is weird that they do that deliberately.
I just watch healthier porn but at the sidelines is always something perveerted in the hope you click on it or your mouse double clicks on it and then it bombards you with that muck.
People often feel so bad because they have been driven to what is dirty and wrong.
Healthier porn is limited though. Dane Jones and other stuff is more respectful.
I’ve been free of porn for like three months now, and the way I did it was simply out of wanting to be worthy in my religion or not.
I was caught up in porn when I turned 16, coincidentally happening at the same time as I was first diagnosed with schizophrenia. I knew it was wrong to start with because of my beliefs, but with Abilify, I developed an addiction with lust, and once I finally got off of it, I still had that addiction. I count addiction to be anything you want to stop, but can’t and you develop a dependency on it. So, really, while I recognized that it was evil to begin with, I couldn’t stop it because of the side effects of Abilify, which I’ve never experienced anything like before. And it started off with just Instagram, but slowly overtime developed into nudity.
But now I’m 21 going on 22, and can finally say I’m over pornography, as I haven’t looked at it for months on end. Really, since my mission began. I’ve had a few lapses, but not a relapse, and haven’t even had a lapse in months. I don’t want to talk religion here, so I won’t go over how I overcame it, but I will say this: that building healthier habits can replace pornography and lust. I give it as my testimonial.
Porn is a dick shun to me. It shuns men with average or below average penises. Degrades men to being less of a male without a big penis. Makes men feel inadequate if they can not satisfy a woman sexually. And other issues like premature ejaculation are used to shame men.
i suffer from porn addiction as well.i started to watch porn since i was in the high school.now i am 35 amd still watching. i am sure there is something wrong in my brain specifically reward center that make me addicted to it.
When I was in my 20’s and 30’s, I watched a lot of porn but I wouldn’t say I ever got addicted to it. I moved to Nebraska, USA in my mid 30’s and porn is illegal here so I necessarily quit looking at it then. I didn’t get a computer nor a smartphone until I was in my late 40’s, in 2008, and by that time the med, Risperdal, had totally killed my sex drive, so porn holds no interest for me.
I haven’t watched or looked at any porn in like 20 years.
I’ve been addicted to porn ever since I hit puberty
To this day I can’t completely stop, and I’m 35 years old
I’ve found it harder to quit than cigarettes, alcohol, weed and any other drug known to man
The issue with it is that sex is everywhere these days and %90 of the time I get online I have absolutely no intention of looking at it, but find myself drifting into it automatically, like it’s not even a conscious decision
It’s like a drug ---- in your pocket and free anytime you want it, it’s always right there, free and at your fingertips on your cell phone
There’s a song that you should look up — Bad Religion - I Love My Computer
In order to quit there’s many books about it, and if you have the guts go to S/A and sort it out before it destroys you
