The Cart Before The Horse

Couple of points I'd like to make. Interested to know what people think of them.
Firstly, let's look at our motivation to have M. I once watched a programme about a young addict in the UK who was about 19. The documentarian took him around his local town on a summer's evening and he saw two attractive women just walking down the street. He asked to stop the car at the nearest pub and ran into the toilet to M. I would say that this is an extreme example of the motivation to M. At the other end I would put someone like myself who is either bored or stressed and has some private time on his hands.
My point is we need to examine, very closely, WHY we PMO. It is invariably much more than if we had a partner and had sex every day - that would add up to about 2.5 hours a week. The motivation with a partner would presumably be because a moment of intimacy had led to it.
It is not until we learn WHY we PMO that we can do anything about it, which leads me to my second point.
I suspect, that the vast majority of people on here have an underlying problem. I suspect it is either stress or depression. I would also suggest that the only way you can alleviate the stress is to change what is stressing you and the only way you can change depression is through clinical help.
This is not a moral issue.
I would say that the vast majority of people on here are, like me, self-medicating with a legal drug. Some have become addicted to the drug; some are so frequently stressed that it has become their only response.
I would appreciate your thoughts.