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Monitoring social media accounts

Discussion in 'Compulsive Sexual Behavior' started by MSTie, Nov 15, 2020.

  1. MSTie

    MSTie Fapstronaut

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    Hi there,

    mstie, once again, back trying to overcome this addiction and the variety of problematic and harmful behaviours that come alongside it.

    This one, funnily enough, is probably the thing that cemented my addiction to online stimulation. It started when I was still young. I'd look up the social media profiles of girls I liked but was too afraid to talk to. Soon enough I got into a cycle of never talking to girls that I was attracted to, but stalking their social media instead. Then it became girls I'd never even met. And now, a decade and a half later, it takes the form of binges looking at the social media of random women online -- never communicating, only ever observing.

    I hate it. It's creepy. It's wrong. It stands in stark contrast with the way that I treat women in my day-to-day life, and yet I can't seem to stop. That strikes me as, if not an addiction in a neurochemical sense, then a habitual one.

    Has anyone managed to beat this awful behaviour? I genuinely think I hate that I do this more than I do porn.

    Edit. Ignore my day counter. As you can see, I haven't been here in a while.
     
  2. scottish89

    scottish89 Fapstronaut

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    I definetly did this a lot, checking social media accounts of ex gf's, girls i knew, random girls collecting the pictures to M to later. Its all part of the dopamine chase, the thought of doing it to "real people" adds a thrill.

    Best way to stop it is to remove yourself from social media completly, I have none now and don't miss it. It wasted almost as much time as porn did for me, even outside the picture viewing. It is full of lite P, triggers etc you don't need it in your life especially if your addiction is centered around it.

    You know this is a harmful behaviour and you know you don't want to be doing this, so choose now to make a clean break from it and live the life you really want to live. It is completly possible to stop this behaviour, I have and you can too.
     
  3. Best strategy is delete all social media accounts or at least ghost them during your reboot phase. I chose the second route during mine.
     
  4. BudBundy99

    BudBundy99 Fapstronaut

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    I would agree just ghost on social media, no reason to delete but you have to really take time and evaluate WHAT you want to get out of social media, we often forget we're in control on social media we can see whatever we want to see on our feeds so you can filter out women's accounts unfollow them, just follow what you care about, limit your time there and take time away from them if you want...
     

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