Porn and HOCD.... thoughts?

To be honest it is a constant fight. It’s become easier and easier to withstand the urges of porn. However, I feel sometimes the separation from porn has triggered a lot of hocd and a lot of intrusive thoughts. For example some thoughts will be like: “so you don’t have that urge anymore, you must be gay”. From what I’ve learned it just takes practice to allow the thoughts to occur and not partake with them. I haven’t had a porn binge in about 25 days and in that sense I feel great. However I have kind of allowed for my ocd thoughts to take over my mind, which I have to slowly alter and fix in the future. If you’re thinking about quitting porn which I definitely recommend, don’t allow hocd or any other types of ocd to take up that newly recovered time (the time each day that was originally used for porn). Obviously you should let the thoughts happen, but don’t dwell on them if that makes sense. I’m no ocd or porn addiction specialist, but I feel like making an effort to help others by talking about my own experience is super helpful in a way. Sorry for the long response, hopefully this was helpful.

@pure093 Yes, I feel like I escalated into what is considered porn induced fetishes because I was so desesentized to “vanilla” porn after abusing it daily for years. I feel like that’s a major reason why hocd is such a huge blockage in my day to day life right now.

@pure093 Ya I definitely used it as an escape or a kind of sad example would be how I would need to watch porn in order to focus on other things such as homework :( how long did it take you until you saw positive benefits. I’m about 3 and a half weeks porn free and I feel like I’m in a major flat line

@pure093 Nearly done a week and something has changed in mood

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