How To Quit Porn
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Dr. David Smith - How To Quit Porn (2nd Edition)
Allegory of the Cave. Take Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, where a group of people have been chained in
a cave their whole lives, watching only the shadows of others pass by on the walls. They view this as reality and never questioned what was outside of what they observed directly. They were unaware or deliberately deluded themselves into living in a false reality, watching life pass by. The Allegory of the Cave is surprisingly similar to porn addiction in all aspects. Porn addicts are in virtually the same circumstance, chained to a computer screen, watching only an image that lacks correspondence to reality. Watching pornography has become a false reality they have grown accustomed to living in, becoming too passive and weak-willed to seek out something better. But normal people don’t perceive reality this way. Instead, they have a much freer and more fulfilling existence, where they are unable to be dragged down by the filth of porn and are completely uninterested in viewing it. You may be unaware what you are missing out on. For example, if you had childhood difficulties that led to porn use, you may have never experienced freedom and known what true love is like. Anyone who has experienced both can tell you with certainty that not being on porn will always be far, far better. If you’ve spent years watching porn and have grown accustomed to the behavior, you need to know what life is like without it. The moral of the story: you don’t know what you are missing if you are content living a life where you even just watch porn occasionally. You don’t know how much better it is to experience true love, and that is something you must seek out instead of this artificial substitute. Don’t live your life shackled while staring at the wall in the cave, as that is what porn addicts do; they are literally unable to escape. You must make quitting porn the #1 priority in your life. At best, porn will give you a life of mediocrity, never able to achieve anything meaningful or find any satisfaction, wasting your life away staring at a screen, and at worst, it will condemn you to a lifetime of misery, chronically tired and bitter. Porn completely alters your perception of the world in a negative way. It can be hard initially to make the connection on your own that porn causes many of the problems you experience. The high of porn is immediate and comes in a quick rush, much easier to draw associations to than the consequences, which are only felt afterwards and spread out over much longer time periods. Don’t attribute your problems to other sources, if in reality the main problem is porn. Focus on improving what is the root cause of your unhappiness and problems. Tackle these first. It’s like trying to invest while having credit card debt. Because of the massive interest expense, it makes no sense to invest until you pay down the debt first. Similarly, you have to be clean from addiction to make progress in life. If you are not clean from addiction, you will never be able to feel good or experience benefits in other aspects of life. It’s hard to enjoy life when you are sick. Rather than trying to improve your life with porn present, removing the negatives is a priority and must occur before you can experience the positives. Quitting porn and quitting all addictions is the single best thing you can do to completely change your life. Pay down your credit card debt and then you can start to invest and build your wealth. Now let’s focus on discussing the symptoms and negative effects of porn use. First, realize that a porn addict’s situation presents the double whammy of watching porn and releasing. The act of watching porn is comparable to cocaine – there is a mental rush and stimulation that comes from just watching. This reduces cognitive function, the ability to feel pleasure (anhedonia), and is highly addictive. Then there is the act of releasing far too frequently, primed and encouraged by watching porn. This process is physically draining on the body. Realize that porn and masturbation can each lead to more of the other behavior. Porn encourages masturbation by sexually exciting the body and ends up in release. Meanwhile, masturbation leaves the body feeling weak and exhausted, which in turn likely encourages watching porn again to chase that high. Repeatedly engaging in porn and masturbation together deepen the connection of these two separate behaviors in the mind. And as this process repeats, the highs become far less pleasurable while this process becomes far more addictive. We will discuss major negative impacts caused by porn that you must know about. In the following pages, I will provide some especially strong and candid reasons why you should quit, immediately, at all costs. Take these points very seriously as they are surprisingly pervasive among porn users. Download 0.56 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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