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All About Porn Addiction Therapy Palm Springs CA

By Janine Hughes


We are all familiar with the line. It is defined as any type of behavior harmful to oneself or others, but yet done repeatedly over and over. Once an addiction kicks in, it is impossible to stop the habit without external intervention. Once addicted to pornography, the only way out of that hole is porn addiction therapy Palm Springs CA.

Porn addiction is defined as the urge to continue using pornographic materials, even after you promise yourself not to. If you lose the willpower to cease viewing when you want to, then you are certainly addicted. People turn to materials like videos, photos and magazines, but that was in the past. Today, the presence of the internet has completely revolutionized the industry.

In the past, access to pornography was in videos, magazine and photos. However, the advent of the Internet worsens the urge for the victims. It comes with a wide variety of options, anonymity, availability and affordability at all levels of explicitness. The fact that people can store unlimited materials in their phones to view anytime aggravates an already worse problem. To sum it up all, no one will know as there is no physical evidence left behind.

This type of addiction, just like any other, interferes with the chemicals in the brain responsible for neurotransmission. It is the changes in the neurochemicals that constantly feed the urges into the brain. A person who is addicted feels two kinds of pain; the physical and the psychological. Addiction to pornography is linked to the brain; hence only trained professionals can help.

Physical pain results from the activities you engage in from time to time to satisfy urges. It comes and engulfs you and until its satisfied, it never goes away. It enslaves people and controls their minds. Victims turn to masturbation and completely rely on pornographic materials. The psychological pain is the obsessive compulsive behavior, depression and anxiety that the vice brings with it.

As it is with other addicts of alcohol, gambling, etc. Victims of the vice are only trying to run away from feelings of low self esteem, issues and emotions they are trying to avoid. An addicted individual has their everyday life impaired and sexual relations with their partner, limited. The result is dysfunctional relationships and/or divorce. The urge to engage in the vice all the time also leads to loss of employment. Moreover, drugs may be used to heighten sexual experience aggravating the situation.

It is unfortunate that addicts are not always willing to accept help, let alone admit that they need help. They live under the false impression that since they engage in the sexual behaviors alone, they are not capable of hurting one.

When these patients decide to seek help, it is as a result of associated symptoms, for instance, depression and relationship problems. Even if these are treated, its never really successful as the core problems was never identified and resolved. Therefore, psychotherapy is the only true way out and more so a means to avoid getting back to this terrible habit.




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