Does anxiety fuel porn addiction?

It certainly can fuel it. Like most addictions we crave relief from things like anxiety. And like most addictions, they often cause more anxiety.

 

What is your anxiety symptoms

 

Very good point. It's a closed loop, anxiety-porn-anxiety which fueled by illusion that porn relieves anxiety, when actually it's opposite.

 

Short answer to your very important question: Yes.

Anxiety, depression, boredom, feelings of inadequacy, fear of dealing with stuff are among the challenges I’ve fled by immersing myself in porn. No wonder it’s so tough to kick the curse.

Thanks for hitting the nail on the head. Stay safe, and best wishes.

 

You just wrote my exact experience.

 

Anxiety and Stress are the fuse that lights the brain up for wanting its feel good time with pmo. So what do we do? Make a list of all your stressors that tick you off and eliminate them. Yes - all of them. This is what I've done and I'm more relaxed and because I am more relaxed I can think rationally.

 

Quoted for emphasis. Negative feelings trigger cortisol, which is the stress hormone. The brain wants to counter it with dopamine, the immediate happy hormone, and it gets that from P, and sexually oriented escape. But that's the key. Instead of addressing the problem, even by simply reasoning out the problem and making a choice about how you're going to deal with it, PMO helps you avoid entirely. It works in the short term, then it returns, and you need to PMO again. So then the problems pile up. Nothing gets resolved. You have no victories, your life seems to be spiraling out of control. That produces more anxiety, more stress, and more craving for PMO in a negative feedback loop.
Quitting P is not the whole story. All that really does is remove the false solution to your problems, so it stops masking the discomfort of a stressful situation and enables you to address it. You still have to address it. The good news is, you can probably do that. As you resolve problems instead of running from them by whackin' the one eyed wiener, or at the very least make progress in resolving them, you compile victories and produce serotonin. That's the real, long term happy hormone. You get the confidence to move forward.

I partially agree. Quitting P is a stressful factor in itself, so it's best to remove as many stressors as possible. It's not possible to remove all of them, though, and I don't think it would be beneficial even if it were. You need to beat a few problems, to prove to yourself you can.

Move through life like a normal person. Go to school and/or work, notice your victories, identify your problems, analyze your defeats and see how you can turn them around next time a similar situation arises. Most importantly, use the plans you develop. As you compile more victories, you'll develop more confidence and have less reason to escape from your problems through P. The triggers will lessen, and you will be yet another bro swaggering in the forums, boasting about how much better your life is without PMO.

 

Anxiety fuels it, worst type of anxiety that made me relapse was the fear that I was causing self-harm by not fapping when my D*** felt like S*** after some days, truth is, it's nothing but a subconcious mechanism to make you relapse, remember you start fapping consistently your brain becomes wired to it, making you a addict, anxiety is just another tool.

 

My mind edge today due to some tv sexual scene.. this is so annoying.. now I am feeling abit of blue balls… I know this is all part of the journey..

 

Happened to me once, but only on a TWD female character, Anime and Manga Cumservice is far worse in my case

 

I think negative emotions can cause a powerful urge to PMO. So anxiety, stress, worry, depression, low mood etc. I think negative emotions like this can cause people to get a powerful urge to PMO.

 

Porn brings more anxiety for me. I start wanting a real women's attention instead of working on my personal projects. NoFap really makes me feel full as a man and I know now that I don't need a woman yet because I really want to work on some projects and improve as an artist.

Fill your day with reading every other day, light to moderate exercise and really build a goal "a why", as Jordan Peterson says...

 

I need to find a real women now.. lately I have been edging and wasting so much energy on browsing internet escort. I then go up to town to arrange to meet one then I turn them
Down as if I shy away.. I am so sick of this.. what on earth is going on with me…so tired of this bull crap

 

People with ocd suffer more with this porn addiction. Anxiety is a product of watching porn and mother of anxiety is porn. So never think anxiety make you porn addict, its reverse. But anxiety after forming is a glue to our porn addiction

 

Anxiety is behind ALL addictions.
Without it, you have no problems quiting.

 

Definitively, when I was really deep into bad porn addiction. I used to be really scared to say anything, as if my heart were to come out of my chest at simple interactions.