if you are not edging or m'ing is there still a dopamine release?

It is likely to delay your healing (the rewiring of the neural pathways)!

Do you have a partner/Gf/Bf?

 

Porn itself releases dopamine.

 

Very dopamine releasing. Don't go there. You need to starve your system to let it rebalance properly. The fact that you love the female form is already an indication that your dopamine is being released.

I'll even go as far as saying that you don't even need to actually SEE anything in order for dopamine to be released. The other day I had a moment of weakness and I decided to start searching for triggering material. I stopped before I was ever exposed to anything but I could still feel the rush surging in my body that something pleasurable was about to occur and my addiction was coming back to life.

 

When we had that P attack the other week and I saw the P -- I got a huge shot of dopamine and my heart started racing! Just looking at it causes a dopamine rush, and it was powerful and oh so familiar. BUT, I moved on, I didn't allow it to be an excuse to relapse, besides, that feeling was controlling and there was no way I was going back to P controlling me!

Stay strong.

 

Me starting to think that this dopamine rush business is addictive. I wonder what are healthy non-indulgent activities that generate happiness for ourselves and others? Watching porn does not seem to be one!

 

Are the pictures vital for you? You could turn those off using something like google chrome (you'll be the only not able to view them). Top right corner of google chrome browser it should say something like "Adjust and control google chrome" --> Settings --> Show advanced settings (bottom) --> Content settings --> Don't show images

I hope you'll find this useful. I use it myself and it works extremely well for me.

 

I've also fallen into the edging trap (just look at my counter lol) and like the other's said: Just don't go there, its difficult at first because you don't what the boundaries are (are girls in skins/shorts ok or not)
But the whole point of shutting it all out is to allow your brain to rebalance first then to see which stimulae are Ok.
Its impossible to not look at stimulating images all the time lol, but I think the idea of rebooting is to allow to view those images once it's healed and isn't being influenced by PMO.

 

Exercise. Art. Literature. Healthy relationships with another person (where you are not objectifying them). I think all of these are healthy activities.

 

Firstly, congrats As for P subs, It could be a way of your brain trying to goad you into PMO. If you're able to finish with a woman, why use P at all?