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Can porn cause critical damage?

Discussion in 'Porn Addiction' started by Share The Pain, Aug 15, 2021.

  1. Share The Pain

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    Can porn cause unfixable critical damage to your brain? If so, is there any symptoms?
     
  2. Yes. Compulsive behavior and malaise
     
  3. Melkhiresa

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    by critical do you mean irreversible?
     
  4. Share The Pain

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    Is there no way to heal it? Is there any more accurate description?

    Yes.
     
  5. HelperX

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    No, don't worry, everything is reversible. The brain is like plastic, what porn caused, it can be recovered.
     
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  6. Reclamation

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    Based on what I've studied on Gary Wilson's site, you may always have these pathways and they will always be sensitive. You just have to make sure you keep using the new ones.
     
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  7. Share The Pain

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    Thanks for the answer, I really hope so. But what about penis? Will it go back to normal and work like its used to and will natural sex be enjoyable again? Im having really bad anxiety and depression and lack of energy. I dont think Im able to have sex at this point, will this ever heal?
     
  8. HelperX

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    Look what masturbation + porn caused me.

    I have snake-like movements going from head down to my spine. You can see them here ( drawings by me ):

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    In the middle, you can see that I wrote "sensazioni di freddo", whic means cold feelings in italian ( I'm italian ), in particular cold wind. Yes, I feel cold winds sometimes around my body, for no reason, even with windows closed or no electric fan on.
    In the bottom, you can see how people look to me, eyes like bulb, focus on the folds of an arms like my brain is watching meat. The fuck is all of this? Can science explain all of this bullshit?

    Also, sometimes horizontal lines appear from nowhere like I'm in the matrix.

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    See what I'm going through due to porn and masturbation? Hopefully everything will turn back to normal once my brain recovery is completed.

    As for natural sex being enjoyable again. It will. You just need to say fuck you forever to porn and your libido will be ripristinated and it will be healthy like when you were porn-free.
     
  9. D_rax

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    There's a lot of variables that go into answering that question:

    • The age that you first got addicted to porn
    • How old you are now
    • How intense your porn addiction was
    • How intense you commit to reboot (Just no P? No P and no M? No PMO?)
    But the short answer is yes. You can heal.

    It might take as much as 2 years of no porn, no masturbation, and no sexual stimulation of any kind (visual, physical, or imaginary/fantasy). But if you commit, you can and will heal.


    Many can recover in as little as 90 days, which is why that's often set as the target for a reboot. But if you first got addicted when you are much younger, it can take as much as two years.


    But yes, you can and will heal if you put in the work and get clean from porn.
     
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  10. Share The Pain

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    Sounds rough, I hope you will heal soon!


    I started watching porn from age 13 I believe and Im 19 now. First I watched neutral videos with natural fantasies, but in the years it turned to watching really rough videos, such as trans, gay etc. I have been trying to stop at times but always failed. Now from the end of the July I noticed that porn started to hurt me seriously. Lots of brainfog, heavy anxiety and depression, etc. So I decided to start no pmo. I dont even have that much feeling to masturbate anymore, probaly becouse of the damage the porn has done to me but I rarely have any feelings to masturbate so atleast for now It feels easy to be without pmo. I watched porn like every other day, sometimes days in a row and rarely but at times two times in a day. The anxiety and other mental and neurological symptoms are so bad now that I cant even leave my house at this point which makes my school fail and ruin my life. I cant be sure that porn addiction is the main reason for my symptoms etc but I can say it surely has done lots of problems for my brain and health and it has damaged my life critically.

    What to do?
     

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