Nofap & Videogames

Yeah man I’m trying to recover from lesbian porn but it’s so hard to quit I’ve been addicted to lesbian porn for over 10 years or more every since I was 14 I’m 29 years old now

 

I think the answer is self evident when you look at what the games are. Although not all games are addictive most do seem to be, or are even designed that way. There's a whole thing about ethical game design that is not based on addictive techniques. The same is true for porn. Porn is usually some kind of video, so you could ask whether all videos are addictive, which of course they're not, even if most are and people may get addicted to YouTube for example, which is probably also a function of the software with features like Autoplay - most people don't pay attention to that or how some people produce their clip with attention grabbing stuff. There are plenty of documentaries, those are videos too just like there are less popular game genres and titles that are probably more unique but people don't look at.

In short, there may a lot of media to "engage" you in an addictive way. And the key difference with games is it is interactive, that gives the software a chance to interact with your neurology. This is what they've done with social media, some of these guys have studied neuroscience.

 

Whatever you're feeling right now, it will pass and a good level of control on your life will be noticed.

 

The wish to watch porn never stoped me to play games. Like, when I'm playing I really don't think about it. But I have other pattern. I'm desiding for ex to play for 2 hours and then do stuff, that needed to be done. Then, when I ended I usually desiding to fap and after ... deciding, that I need to play more, because I'm so mentally tired. It may repeat for several times. So, if exclude porn, videogames don't have negative effect on me. At least, I think so.

 

This seems to be a conditioned reflex.
Look it up if you're interested.

Your brain has learnt to associate equivalent levels of dopamine to both actions, such that their results more or less mirror each other.

Interesting.

 

Video Games trigger the same reward centers as porn. This is why they are so popular and addictive. It’s not an accident. They are designed that way. Every time I would play video games I would want to watch porn so I quit them altogether years ago.

 

Well there are a lot more types of video games than porn. Interesting quote from this article about Journey:

This is interesting to think about in connection with the powerlessness idea in traditional recovery, or even a newer perspective that defines itself as empowering. My take on it is it isn't (or doesn't have to be) limited to this single continuum of powerlessness vs. empowerment. Socially speaking a sense of wonder can connect, cognitively speaking it can be the motivating force for scientists that has a sense of wonder about nature, innovators that have a truly original idea. In other words it can connect with potential, of possibility. It can be argued that in early recovery one should be focused on stabilization and therefore consistency of practice, but I don't think you necessarily see this element of vision in later recovery in practice - even when they have a specific component of that in a program. And that is probably true in recovery because it is true of modern society in general.