Are all of us with PMO addiction mentally ill?

This question occurred to me because of the effects of our actions on the brain chemistry and the fact that 10 October is World Mental Health Day!

 

Nah. We're just porn addicts. Which honestly probably makes us more normal than we might think.

 

Well, addictions are listed in the DSM.

 

I do not think porn addiction is normal. I do not think most people have porn addiction. I think most people have or do use it and can take it or leave it.

 

My point was so many people seem to have a porn addiction that by sheer volume it's almost status quo.

 

Although Sex Addictions (including PA) are not.

 

It only seems that was because we are in a self-selecting community, IMO.

 

That's right, because the majority of the medical community have not accepted the science of this yet.

 

I'll need to see your data on this.

 

What data? Where is your data?

 

I'd like to think no. I have incurable anxiety, I'm on the life long Autism spectrum and I'm hoping my Depression isn't forever either. Those things I consider a mental illness whereas I can actually kick PMO addiction without drugs or any other thing.

 

...bipolar here (documented) anyhoo, safely say i was self medicating via dopamine generated by porn and other substances. That said, mental illness(es) can be exasperated by induction of PMO but to say P causes it, nah
an addiction ? yeah i would go along with that diagnosis, sadly i've found support for recovery off street drugs fairly available however even this morning while at a sobriety group upon mentioning progress made against my online addiction most hung their heads in silence

not particularly ready to address it i guess
=^,^=

 

I have OCD and some anxiety issues but I wouldn't necessarily blame them on porn. Even now that I've quit PMO, sometimes it feels like my mental health issues are worse than when I was on porn. So no, I don't blame porn for my mental health issues.

 

I doubt it, but it might be that a greater proportion of us have some kind of problem that PMO effectively acted as a drug for.

Sometimes part of me wonders if I shouldn't just accept the PMO. It isn't ideal, but maybe it was what worked (like someone managing conditions with pills which have side effects). Maybe perfect is the enemy of good, or functional, or whatever.

Yikes, that got dark! That was probably pretty close to a liveblog of the addiction rationalising.

 

I have a mental illness, and although I'd love to be able to completely agree with this -- I don't. I think the problems are often separate, even though they can interact and influence each other, people with a problem with Porn don't necessarily have a problem with mental illness.

It may be more common to have mental illness when you have a problem with Porn, I don't know, but I wouldn't say that everyone with a Porn problem has mental illness. That's just me though.