Do y’all think watching porn can increase anxiety & depression and other mental illnesses? I really think it does. I went from having extreme anxiety and depression and stopped doing it and went a whole year feeling fine then started it back and now I’ve had a relapse with everything. I think it messes with your dopamine or something.
It depends on the person.
I wonder about that too it's like the first few times are fine and then anxiety comes in and it doesn't really excite you anymore, it's really weird
That's probably because after a while your mind is bored of the usual things you view, so you would have to escalate to something more extreme to get excited again.
It does. It can increase intrusive thoughts and has been proven to have the same effect as any drug.
Well I guess porn is out of my life then
It definitely has improved my mental state by having it out of my life. another thing is that you don’t forget things you see. There are lasting effects that no one talks about and if I knew I would never have watched it.
Yeah that is fair I've stumbled into things that was like "heck no" so yeah I'm ok giving that up
@Ashley Johnson Through many relapses of mine, even my latest one, I've stumbled upon thumbnails that were VERY questionable to me, so I avoided them. Even then, you can't be 100% positive of consent and sometimes age
Porn is awful for you, escape while you can. You should read into it, it is a great topic to study the affects of
You got this!
As someone who has researched the affects it does to your mind, relationships, and thought action fusion, I would say that it is not good even in moderation. Long term it can have serious problems and you can’t take it back.
how do you get over pint
porn
The legalization of something and having job employments does not negate the fact that it still affects the brain negatively.
And to get over it takes training. Same way a drug addiction has to win small victories. It is a process and takes time to overcome it.
Again….. the legalization of it has absolutely nothing to do with how it affects your brain and mental state. The facts are the facts regardless of the legalization.
Yes but that also don’t take into account people with ocds. Porn triggers mirror neurons so you imagine your the one in the video. And with false memory/sexual intrusive thoughts/ and us having a hard time to separate thought action fusion in the first place makes us have a harder time. Also have much more negative impact. Since our brains get stuck on thoughts in the first place why would you want to create a scenario where you have more intense sexual intrusive thoughts, false expectations, hyper sexualization, and stronger false memories.
And these intrusive thoughts and hyper sexualization will create POCD themes and make them much more intense. Im just saying. Why make it harder on ourselves.
And whenever you have to look into your spouses eyes and have on your conscience the memories of you imagining having sex with someone else and not them, then the guilt and ROCD develops.
Hello, Matthew. I'm in the same boat you are. Porn can ABSOLUTELY cause anxiety, depression, and other things upon compulsive use. Porn has reinforced my POCD, my depression, and my anxiety. I haven't given up on trying to live a sex free life. I've gone 2 weeks without a relapse and I was at my highest. I was getting happier, more in control, and more confident. After several relapses, I've gotten lower, and now OCD tells me I'm a horrible person, a p, and a shameful human being because of it. I'm not saying porn is bad for everybody, but it definitely isn't helping make my life better. Its a choice you have to make personally.
⚠️TW: PORN⚠️ someone please give me tips on stopping to watch porn. it makes my intrusive thoughts worse and also makes me insecure about my body🥲
I watched porn and i feel guilty. My brain is telling me that they could have been 18 on the dot but i still watched it bc i felt like my brain was sabotaging me. I clicked on videos with mature audiences but it tells me you scrolled through young pornstars. I feel disgusted and depressed. I honestly don’t care about living sometimes.
18+ only Aside from anxiety and intrusive thoughts, which to be honest I'm not as bothered by them like I used to be, there's something else that bothers me just as much, if not more than those things combined. That bothersome thing is pornography. It's been a bother in my life ever since I first discovered it when I was very young. It's always been messing with me. It's like this dirty secret that I engage with and I honestly don't know why I still do to this day. It doesn't help me. I feel bad about it every single time. It amplifies my anxiety and the other day it hurt a friend I deeply care about. The thing is, I've talked about this previously on here, so I just appear like a broken record. At this point, I'm addicted to it I don't want to be, but I am. This is something that takes advantage of your mind. Even if you say no, your mind won't. Worst yet, it appears everywhere in many forms. I feel so dirty. Everytime I end up relapsing I just feel horrible. Horrible due to the fact that this is associating with who I am, even though I don't think it aligns with my morals nor my goals. Not even close. I also feel like this stumped my social development in my adolescence. I understand that teenagers get all wonky with hormones and it isn't like I had a roadmap with going through high school, but pornography definitely made things more difficult. A lot of risky actions were made, bad decisions, and regretful imagery that to this day still messes with me from time to time. I thank God for the days I'm not being distracted and disturbed by those kind of thoughts 24/7. Today, I still think that's bothering me. Another thing that makes me sick is how easily extreme and zany videos can be even when you're not looking for those kind of things. I can Google one thing and it will either give me the opposite or something completely different. Unfortunately, this can include very disturbing things that I wish I wouldn't have seen. This is the only thing I feel so much shame for and I just want it to die. I don't want to deal with it anymore. Yesterday's relapse was one of the worst ones in a long time. I just don't want to keep dealing with this stuff anymore. I wish it were as easy as picking it up, and throwing it out, but the urges and the thoughts and the visualizations come back.
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