PMO addicts vulnerable to addictive behaviour in general?

I think it's a dopamine thing. Your brain gets so "numb" to dopamine spikes from all of the stuff you are addicted to, it constantly is chasing more and more and more of it and until you hard wire it (hence the concept of NoFap for pmo addicts) we will always have addictive behaviors.

 

For me I was first addicted to video games (11) then PMO (13)

 

news addiction.who gets addicted to news?

i am addicted to
pmo for more than 20 years.
chewing tobacco 2 years
smoking 16 years.

i quit all tobacck cuz it gave chronic bronchitis.
i am trying to quit pmo with out adverse effects.

 

i have complusivly . sometimes i find my self just mindlessly visiting a billion different news websites not even reading the articles just the headlines.
sometimes out of habit I'll just alt tab out of whatever im doing and go to a news website lol

 

Depends how you define addiction, just because you spend a lot of time doing something you enjoy doesn't necessarily mean you're addicted.

I sunk a ton of time into gambling and video games, two activities that are recognised as being addictive but at some point I quit both and thought nothing of it. I didn't have to stop myself from doing either, I just didn't really want to anymore and that was the end of it. Porn though I keep trying to quit and despite knowing how much it's affecting my life I still keep going back. The fact that I'm trying to quit is on my mind constantly, I get horrible withdrawals after a week or so away from it, I read help forums like these practically every day, I even quit the internet entirely just to put some distance between porn and myself(didn't really work). Porn addiction isn't real though apparently, I just wish my brain would get that message.

 

I would say that anything that you know is bad for you, that you try to quit multiple times, without success, is probably an addiction.

 

There is a solid and growing body of evidence that certain people are genetically predisposed to various addictions. We have known about this (in society generally) for a long time, which is why we speak of people with 'addictive personalities'.

I wouldn't be surprised if many people on this forum are more likely than average to develop addictions in life in the way you describe.

 

I used to work with someone who had (he told me this), two big tv’s in his room. One was playing a news channel and the other was playing porn. He would sit there smoking weed, watch a bit of news, then would jack off. This would just repeat all day everyday.

you could tell there was truth to this as he knew every detail about everything going on in the world.

 

Yes PMO is probably makes us vulnerable to other addiction. Remember how PMO numb our brain to healthy pleasure and make us feel depressed?
Well, how about when we feel numb and feel depressed, we looking for something that can entertain or excite us. And that's when we start to taking gambling, weed, and drugs to make us feel comforable.
Even though i did not say that PMO isn't the only thing to blame, but it worsened our mental condition and makes us vulnerable to other addiction

 

I have always wondered regarding people who seem to be addicted to watching the news regularly. I was always baffled when they would watch a new hour, then watch the same exact content again a hour later. Or, even at the 11 o'clock hour special, which again repeated the 6 o'clock coverage. I wondered what was the aspect that hooked people to seeing the same thing, even some times repeating their same reactions two or three times as if they forgot it before.
I got so intrigued with this fascination, that I started to watch the 6 o'clock new hour myself, and came to the conclusion that, it is seeking something new each time, as well as having a feeling of being involved within the world, at that exact moment in time. I gave a sense of comfort knowing other people are watching the same thing, and are caring about similar stifles. Also it makes for decent ice breakers for basic talk.

But as for the actual content, it is very negative, and can sprawl into a sense of fear, especially during these times. Plus, it's incredibly bias, so why even care about others opinions on that matter. Complete waste of time, and a trap to the mind. Much happier not caring anymore, the world will always revolve, but my life is mine. And wasting energy watching none sense is depressing. So I rather not watch the news, or television in general.

 

Food, gaming, booze, porn.
Yep, our brains are...different.

 

I definitely have an addictive personality in my family. My mother was addicted to pain killers, and my brother got into some hard stuff. I was hooked on videogames, probably at a clinically addicted level by age 8 and PMO was probably also there by age 16. I metion them because they say it has a genetic component.

Addiction has stunted my development in a lot of ways. I thank God for people and places like this forum, because I honestly would never have been able to parse out the harm I was doing to myself if I hadn't heard of it elsewhere, heard and read so many testimonies of other people with the same struggles and them all coming back to PMO. I think I would've been with the rest of this generation totally numbed out thinking that it was normal. That's exactly what I was doing before, and I wish so much I'd learned sooner. But we always have the present moment to do what is right.

 

My phone and oversleeping are my worst enemy..

 

Bro, I understand you....