You guys think that Attention Deficit Disorder has something to do with PMO?

Great question. I'm 57, and have been living with undiagnosed ADD all of my life. The adaptations that I've had to make to live without drugs, border on OCD behavior. Being excessively methodical and detail oriented.
My PMO habits were a little that way too. Trying to be very precise with my masturbation technique and collecting and cataloging porn. It was all an effort to make my time wasted with PMO feel like it was accomplishing something. I often went to PMO to calm me down and get me centered. It was fairly ritualistic.
Does any of this strike a chord for you?
Having said that, to be consistent with the ideas put forth on this site, I do not use that as an excuse. It might explain my past behaviors, but it's a problem if one lets it define ones parameters. I use what I know about my successes living with my limitations. I'm taking that to the next level with me, and leaving my failures behind. Im redefining myself based on a positive forward projecting model.

 

Yeah, ADD makes it harder not to act on random urges, and ADD medications make you horny. Great combo (not).

All I can advise is tons of exercise, and keeping busy with other things, and going out to be among people instead of sitting at home alone with your temptations. And maybe a low-dose SSRI like Prozac. Some people find it helpful. If it works, great, if not, chuck it.

 

It has been said that PMO causes ADD as well. Google it and read it yourself, but i definitely think its possible

 

ADD is a disorder long recognized by psychiatrists and is described in the DSM.
PMO is a term used by laypeople to describe a habit of watching pornography while masturbating until orgasm.
It is not recognized in the medical field at this point in time.
It is completely false to claim that PMO causes anything. We can all speculate, that's a good thing to do here, so that we can help each other out. But we absolutely have to play by the rules of science or we just go down the roads of broscience and old wives tales.
People who have the symptoms of ADD could be quite predisposed to getting into habitual behaviors, especially if those behaviors allow for procrastination

 

The fact that something is, or isn't in the DSM, hardly proves anything Fagdad. For example, homosexuality used to be in the DSM for God's sake!

 

Wow. I think that validates why I feel the way I do about the "DSM". The whole system is upside down and backwards if you ask me..

And just my 2 cents on adhd,

Outdoors, exercise, drastically cut screen time, meditation (can be modified to make kids want to do it!), healthy non-gmo & organic food, can all cure the so called 'add/adhd', by taking care of the problem at the source/roots. The system is grasping at leaves and branches...

 

Equalizer,

I love that pic! What does the top text say?

I think you're 95% right on the label ADHD for rowdy school kids. But the diagnostic category is not to blame, so much as over-eager doctors and slightly lazy caregivers overusing it.

This disorder was originally a way to describe some seriously brain-damaged children. Rarely, rarely, one will run across one of those, like a 4-year-old who cannot be kept safe without his 30-lb weight vest and a hand on him at all times. Add Ritalin, and he suddenly starts to notice that there's a human attached to that guiding hand! True story. Yikes. These problems existing on a spectrum, sometimes it's hard to judge.

I agree that DSM has plenty of problems, but taken with a grain of salt, on the whole, using it with care and good sense can be better than throwing it all out.

 

The DSM is a peer created manual. It is the only stable tool that the mental health profession has to hold some kind of consistency and accountability.
As a homosexual who grew up with the challenges of ADD, I should have plenty of reason to dismiss it. But I'm a stickler for science, what can I say.
Let's just be as careful as we can be when we start ascribing various causes to our challenges. I for one will always defer to the DSM before I would to anecdotal evidence. I try my best not to do this with myself but it is seriously tempting to jump to conclusions, think I'm right, and then follow a path that is not based on fact, or at least information that has been peer reviewed and agreed upon as likely enough to be fact.
I've said many times here that we should follow our own instincts when it comes to planning our own recoverys from PMO. I still believe that. So taking advice from someone else should be carefully considered, and for me, if I can't find something from the professionals to back it up, I'm skeptical.