The Lord of the Rings Challenge

Welcome back brother . We are Sons of Durin!!!!

 

Exactly, you know how this is going to end. Change course brother, now!!!

 

hang in there my brother. You can do this!!!

 

there you go

https://watchdocumentaries.com/minimalism-a-documentary-about-the-important-things/

 

no, it´s not a reset, but it´s a warning allright. you got to stay sharp around triggers brother, because next time you may not survive. see what you did wrong, and how you can improve.

fishing and peeking are warning signs bro, you can still change course, but you got to act now, don´t wait.

 

That´s my boy!!! Congratulations brother . Now let´s go destroy this thing. Onwards!!!!!!!!!

 

And already a Hobbit. Good entrance brother . Now let´s see if you can keep up with us . Good luck!!!!

 

Checking in brotherhood

The sun is shining and i feel good . Good sleep today, cold shower right after waking up, it´s the best coffee ever

On the addiction department nothing to report, some urges here and there, some attraction to random town woman, but nothing serious. feeling very solid and determinated

The overall spirit of our guild is very good, so congratulations to all .

Checking out!! Have a great day my friends


Here´s another interesting excerpt from "your brain on porn", page 55/56


"As yet, only two studies (both published in 2014) have isolated and analysed the brains of internet
porn users. The first of these looked at users who were not addicts: "Brain Structure and Functional
Connectivity Associated With Pornography Consumption: The Brain on Porn". It was published in the
prestigious JAMA Psychiatry journal.[91] In this study, experts at Germany's Max Planck Institute
found:

1. Higher hours per week/more years of porn viewing correlated with a reduction in grey
matter in sections of the reward circuitry (striatum) involved in motivation and decisionmaking.
Reduced grey matter in this reward-related region means fewer nerve connections.
Fewer nerve connections here translates into sluggish reward activity, or a numbed
pleasure response, often called desensitisation (more on that below). The researchers
interpreted this as an indication of the effects of longer-term porn exposure.

2. The nerve connections between the reward circuit and prefrontal cortex worsened with
increased porn watching. As the researchers explained, ‘Dysfunction of this circuitry has
been related to inappropriate behavioural choices, such as drug seeking, regardless of the
potential negative outcome.’ In short, this is evidence of an association between porn use
and impaired impulse control.

3. The more porn used, the less reward activation when sexual images were flashed on the
screen. A possible explanation is that heavy users eventually need more stimulation to fire
up their reward circuitry. Said the researchers, ‘This is in line with the hypothesis that
intense exposure to pornographic stimuli results in a downregulation of the natural neural
response to sexual stimuli.’ Again, desensitisation is common in all kinds of addicts.

To sum up: More porn use correlated with less gray matter and reduced reward activity (in the
dorsal striatum) when viewing sexual images. More porn use also correlated with weakened
connections to the seat of our willpower, the frontal cortex."