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Pronography is addictive.
As with alcohol and drugs, there are those people for whom they can view pornography for pleasure but know how to stop viewing it. For others, it is all encompassing and completely addiction.
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Is porn addictive?
Can people be addicted to porn?
Yes.
Treatment for porn addiction is available for those who need help.
Is there help available?
Yes
Can I get into rehab for porn addiction? Yes.
What about treatment at home?
In certain circumstances: Yes.
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What is porn addiction?
Porn addiction is a condition where someone, quite literally, is addicted to viewing pornography to the point where other elements of daily life are ignored or completely abandoned.
Relationships are damaged, work and study deadlines ignored.
Despite the cost you keep spending money to feed your habit.
Some academics believe it is a subset of sex addiction yet has different roots to it.
What is known is that there is an ever growing body of research to show that porn addiction has a massive impact on brain chemistry.
In short, it is the same as taking drugs.
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Brain chemistry
When you view pornography the brain is flooded with a supernormal stimuli.
This level of stimulation is far higher than if you see someone you find sexually attractive.
When you view internet porn naturally occurring feelgood chemicals are released by the brain.
The problem is that, in time, if you keep activating the brain in this way you will not be able to experience pleasure unless you continue to view internet porn.
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Neurological tolerance
Your brain will develop a state known as tolerance.
This is because your brain, in reaction to the continued release of feelgood chemicals, rewires itself.
You will need more and more of these chemicals in order to experience any pleasure.
Thus, whereas five minutes of porn would have been enough to make you feel happy, you now need to spend an hour with more extreme porn to have the same effect.
This is precisely the same effect as taking heroin or drinking alcohol.
Addiction is addiction.
It matters not if it is a substance or a behaviour.
The effects and treatment is the same.
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The effects of porn addiction
As with any addiction, porn addiction will, very quickly, start to impinge on your life.
Everyday tasks will start to suffer as will work and study deadlines.
The costs will start to mount up and even though you know you can not afford to feed your addiction, you spend money you shouldn't.
Relationships will suffer, even breakdown.
You will stop looking after yourself until you become completely, totally and utterly incapable of holding down a job and a relationship because of your addiction.
Many people who are addicted to porn will soon be unable to maintain an erection without watching it and even fail to be able to perform, sexually, with a partner.
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The lasting damage of porn addiction
Many people are not aware they’re hooked on porn until it escalates to the point of affecting other areas of life such as relationships, friendships or work.
Sometimes they don't understand it until they notice that they can no longer get an erection without using pornography and sex with a partner no longer holds any appeal.
For some the escalation has gone into cybersex, hook ups and visiting sex workers which may be crossing personal boundaries and breaching fidelity contracts with a partner.
Recovery has nothing to do with lack of willpower, but everything to do with science.
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What about home treatment for Porn addiction?
Depending on the severity of the problem it may be possible to arrange outpatient therapy or treatment at home.
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Therapy
All centers who provide treatment for addiction provide a fully immersive therapy programme, either along a 12 step approach or a SMART based recovery model. These run seven days a week and , those in treatment, are obliged to attend all sessions if physically well enough to do so. For new admissions, it can be 24-48 hours , on occasion, before someone is able to take part.
Sitting alongside this programme, many centers also offer adjunctive treatments and therapies such as:
Yoga
Mindfulness
Art therapy
Gentle exercise and group walks
Music therapy
Individual sessions (for those staying more than a week)
Clients, before leaving, are linked in with support groups in their local community, be they voluntary or statutory. A psychological tool kit is built up so that clients have a selection of techniques to employ.
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