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I dont know what to do

Discussion in 'Loneliness' started by pachinkowolf, Jun 5, 2022.

  1. pachinkowolf

    pachinkowolf New Fapstronaut

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    I am not sure if this is a is a side effect of porn addiction but I feel no joy in anything any more other than porn. I stopped hanging out with my friends and just shut myself out 6 months ago, I still can communicate with my family just fine but id rather just be by myself. The games I use to play seem very boring and cant keep my attention for more than 10 minutes. I use to be semi social online but that went away completely, the sound of having to maintain a friendship seems pointless to me now and I dont know why. I see my friends being successful and starting their own lives while I am stuck in my situation. I have no car and haven't had a job and im 22. I can go more into it but I think im gonna sum it up because my life is really just embarrassing. I really just feel empty inside with no joy what so ever. Im hoping starting my porn addiction recovery journey will help get rid of some of these emotions. But it may be a completely different issue.
     
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  2. Swift Escape

    Swift Escape Fapstronaut

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    Can personally guarantee that porn won't help you with any of that. That guilt about "not being at position X while everyone's at Z" is your brain enforcing a malignant survival technique: It's under the impression that, since you haven't carked it from your current practices, it's safe to keep doing them, which feeds the guilt and depression about not doing anything, which feeds the doing nothing, and so on.

    I was trapped in that cycle for the better part of two years, and I got out of it with this absolutely Rhodium piece of advice:


    "Whatever the brain is doing, it likes."


    You've been doing the stuff that produces negative results for so long, but your brain will be just as pleased, if not more so, if you switch to the stuff that moves you forward. You'll be laughing at how stupid you were to be doing anything else.

    So! Don't seek an activity that is fun, seek something that's challenging. This'll ease off your dopamine receptors and build up the necessary reliance on repetition- but in a direction that produces positive results. Not that you asked, but learning any skill that's inherently lethal will almost always increase your self-esteem, so maybe start there.
     
  3. pachinkowolf

    pachinkowolf New Fapstronaut

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    Thank you so much for the reply, it means a lot.
     
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