Question: How to address your doctor about your problems

ED pills aren't recreational drugs with serious street value, lol. This is a wrong deduction. Not that hard to get with/without Rx

I mean get yourself checked out, medically, but stopping PMO is willpower. What is your doctor going to do, realistically, when you tell him? You're at day 6... early... get to 90, there is a lot of anecdotal evidence that you will start feeling better.


Go to this link, a start

https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/support-apps-forums-websites-books/educating-your-therapist/

Good luck getting them to read the articles though...

 

Porn is not a threat for medicine right now, so I don't think a doctor can help outside the very good suggestions NoFap offers for free. Switching porn for an addiction to a drugs that help to be porn-free (if exist) is not a good solution imho.

 

i made my mind to go to doctor as an extra help someone that i can talk to freely
and also made my mind to not take any chemicals as i had bad experience with them in the past so if you could find someone to talk too someone has a good experience with your addiction that will do the same effect i think

 

Maybe some drugs can ease the reboot, and maybe more after that. No physician will assist you in tripping, or anything like that, because no one would insure him treating you with psychedelics. With drugs, in the USA, you must abide by the almighty FDA.

 

Seek professional help from a therapist whos trained to deal with sexual help. MDs are not trained to diagnose neurological/psychological conditions theyre trained to see symptoms based on what theyve seen in literature and experience and translate that to a possible way to treat via medication. Medication is not the way to treat every health condition trust me on that. A lot of doctors dont even really know what the medications do to a person. My FCP thinks 20 mg of ADHD medication is a small dosage and im telling you 10 mgs makes me wierd. Knowing textbook definitions of what medications do dont mean they understand how it affects your body. Go see a therapist

 

My doctor never took my ED seriously, even though it was clear that it had created a wall between my wife and me, and it was surely causing me anxiety. So, I buried the thought that the PD was linked to the PMO - - you know what I mean.

I'd been seeing my psychologist on an irregular basis for almost 9 years before finally, finally, opening up to her about my porn addiction. Dealing with it has been the key to helping me quit for real. I was petrified to finally tell her, but I am so thankful I finally did.

I have a new family doctor now, and I am feeling more confident about sharing my problems with her, yes, her. I sometimes think women are more empathetic and willing to help. Just my opinion.

If more of us do not continue to come forward doctors will not have enough evidence to take this problem seriously. Personally, I think PMO and its related issues are a huge public health problem. But it is treatable.

Guys, you need the right doctor or the right psychologist. Don't be shy to shop around. The more of us who come forward, the better the odds are that guys younger than us will not be dealing with this crap. I would not wish the PMO addiction on my worst enemy.

 

You cant make hasty generalizations about all doctors based off a bad experience with one. Bad doctor, go to someone else; that freedom is why it costs so much in the USA.

I could see a dopaminergic drug ease reboot symptoms. Stabilize the dopamine available in the synapse, i.e. never let there be a dopamine crash to elicit a relapse. Wellbutrin (Bupropion) comes to mind. Works in the frontal lobe. It's cheap, readily available, and doesn't have many systemic side effects. Probably comes in ER and SR coatings. I think it's used for smoking cessation, off label.

But maybe, the shock of going cold turkey is what an addict needs to recover for a lifetime?

 

Yeah you had a really bad family care doctor. Remember that depending on his age it he might not be updated to the current literature on PA as its a newly developing addiction considering the relatively recent accessibility to porn. But agreed i dont like male doctors either women are much more sympathetic