How can someone get over being addicted to watching porn?
If you see yourself getting addicted to watching porn, how you get off the addiction?
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You should first find out the reason you turned to porn in the first place. What was missing. When you find that out deal with that problem. This is how true healing can begin. Otherwise you will just be a person who is avoiding watching porn and will eventually relapse. Porn is not the problem. The problem is you are using it to fill a hole.
Porn addiction isn’t a real addiction in the actual sense compared to drug addiction. You can’t overdose and die. Thus you can just stop. If you have a problem with porn it’s not going to get better unless you stop. A person with a drug addiction may have to stop slowly, a little at a time. You don’t have to do that and as soon as you stop viewing it the sooner you start recovering. I hope you do what’s best for you and if you give in to a porn compulsion, just stop doing it, and don’t beat yourself up. Beating ourselves up never works and makes us sicker and more likely to choose whatever behavior we have problems with. Be it porn addiction or drugs, alcohol, whatever. I suggest you just start again and also praise yourself whenever you can that you’re trying and how far you’ve come and you want to recover. Also giving ourselves other healthy positive affirmations will help. They will help even when it doesn’t feel like it or it feels like lying to yourself or feels scary or uncomfortable. It will help you increase your self esteem. Addiction issues are always related to self esteem. I have Binge Eating disorder myself. It’s also an addiction that isn’t the same as a drug addiction, etc. The problem still exists and still hurts and is still a problem. Also please look up healthy ways to do affirmations. There are unhealthy way. You deserve good self esteem.