If you’re looking for a special relationship but struggle with addiction, the love and connection you crave might be overshadowed by compulsive urges for porn and masturbation. This often leads to isolation, loneliness, and shame.
If this sounds like you, know that millions worldwide struggle with the same addiction, impacting their ability to date and form meaningful relationships. But there is hope! And we are here to help you thrive!
Dr. Trish Leigh is a Certified Brain Health and Sex Addiction Recovery Coach. She believes at the core of porn addiction is dopamine dependency. Essentially, it’s an internalized drug addiction with four distinct stages: dopamine drip, deluge, drowning, and deficit.
Understanding the Real Consequences
The Dopamine Cycle
Porn makes you feel good temporarily through a dopamine drip, leading to a flood (deluge) of dopamine. This flood desensitizes your brain’s reward center, creating a dopamine deficit.
When you’re not consuming porn, you feel anxious, depressed, unmotivated, angry, and irritable. This cycle perpetuates a dysfunctional brain performance pattern, damaging both brain structure and function.
Supernormal Stimulus to Recover from Porn Addiction
Porn acts as a supernormal stimulus, providing more dopamine than healthy levels would. This excessive dopamine motivates you to seek more pleasure from the screen, rather than engaging in real-world activities, including building relationships.
The desensitization in the reward center also affects the pathways to the frontal lobe, which controls executive functions like organization and planning.
Impact on Relationships
This cycle makes it challenging to form and maintain healthy relationships. The constant dopamine highs from porn reduce your motivation to seek real-world interactions, leading to social anxiety and cognitive affective distress—heightened emotional distress due to brain dysfunction.
This distress makes it harder to calm yourself without external stimuli, driving you back to porn and masturbation.
Unrealistic Fantasies and Self-Esteem Issues
Porn induces unrealistic fantasies about sexual relationships, leading to distorted views of healthy sexuality. Frequent porn users often suffer from lower self-esteem and body image issues, which can result in sexual dissatisfaction and further damage potential relationships.
Sexual Arousal Dysfunction (SAD)
Porn use can also contribute to sexual arousal dysfunction, including erectile dysfunction and delayed ejaculation. This can exacerbate fears about finding a partner and discussing porn addiction or sexual issues, adding to the stress and reinforcing the cycle of addiction.
The Path to Recover from Porn Addiction
There’s hope! Overcoming porn addiction is possible, and it starts with a clear plan:
- Acknowledge the Problem: Recognize that your brain’s dysfunction is at the root of your addiction.
- Commit to Change: Decide to give up porn, understanding that it won’t be easy but is essential for recovery. Schedule a qEEG brain map to discover how your brain is functioning.
- Rewire Your Brain: With our DIY Porn Free Brain Forever program you can develop skills to regulate your mood from within, reducing reliance on external stimuli like porn.
- Seek Support: Reach out to our professionals for help. Work along with Dr. Leigh to get your brain rewired and overcome porn addiction.
Take Action to Recover from Porn Addiction
Can you imagine a life where you’re no longer controlled by compulsive urges? You’ll feel more motivated, less anxious, and capable of forming healthy, fulfilling relationships.
Control your brain, or it will control you. Commit to action today and reclaim your life! Start your journey towards recovery and build the life you deserve by signing up for our digital DIY PORN FREE BRAIN FOREVER program. We are here to support you every step of the way!
Also, Check out Dr. Leigh’s YouTube videos for more detailed insights and guidance:
Struggling To Find Love? w/ Dr. Trish Leigh – YouTube
