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I am a 19-year-old male, and I have been addicted to pornography since I was 14. I’ve reached a stage where I spend more than three hours daily watching pornographic content. Even after finishing, I continue to have persistent thoughts and fantasies related to pornography.
The issue is that I am studying a challenging and demanding major, and this addiction is significantly affecting my focus, thinking, and overall life. I am eager to overcome this addiction and seek effective treatment. Are there any solutions?
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Hello, after knowing your problem that you have repeated thought of pornography and viewing that because brain releases happy hormones. You should have strong will to overcome your ideas of fantasies by keeping yourself busy in your work. You should needs counselling.
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Consult Psychiatrist for minimum medications and counselling.
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You can overcome your problem by strong desire.
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Overcoming pornography addiction involves a combination of strategies focused on breaking the habit and addressing underlying issues. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify triggers and replace unhealthy patterns with healthier behaviors. Mindfulness techniques teach awareness of urges without acting on them, while accountability tools like support groups or monitoring software provide external reinforcement. Digital detoxes, including setting boundaries and limiting access to triggers, can reduce temptation. Therapy may also address underlying emotional challenges like stress, anxiety, or loneliness. Success requires self-compassion, patience, and consistent effort, often supported by a professional or trusted support network.
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You can consult and have online sessions for same
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Yes.. you should consult psychiatrist.. psychiatrist will guide you how you should change your behaviour and thinking pattern to overcome this addiction.. there are so many cases of porn addiction in which students started seeing porn as fun and to occasionally to relieve stress..but eventually it becomes their coping to relieve stress.. it becomes there escape.. and even if they want to stop it they are not able to and it disturb their lives.. so better talk with professionals.. seek help and guidance.. you will definitely come out of this.. don’t let it ruin your career..
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Hi..Porn addiction can be caused by stress, loneliness, curiosity, or using it as a way to cope with negative emotions. It can also develop due to easy access and repeated viewing over time. To overcome it, start by identifying triggers and replacing the habit with healthier activities. Building a strong routine and limiting access to pornographic content can help. Talking to someone you trust or joining support groups can provide motivation and accountability.
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consult online for further evaluation and management
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Dr. Nidhi Marvania Raja
Psychiatrist
8 yrs exp
Mumbai
Addiction is basically an obsessive compulsive circuit of the brain, every person has a basic reward circuit that functions with Dopamine as its main neurotransmitter. Now once a pattern is established of reward seeking from a certain act, there arises an urge to repeat the act to attain the pleasure born out of burst of dopamine secretion. Addictions can be of various forms from substances to porn to gaming, gambling etc.
But in every addiction the cycle of formation followed by constant indulgence followed by guilt and anxiety is a common observation.
In your case it’s porn viewing, possibly followed by a sense of guilt or shame for wasting time that could be utilised elsewhere, but again brain kicks in with its compulsive behaviour and you indulge in porn viewing. The cycle keeps on repeating.
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You need to consult a psychiatrist. A proper guided approach with psychotherapeutic intervention post assessment of severity of addiction will be beneficial for sure.
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Consider this behaviour has a psychiatric condition rather than taking it as a voluntary behaviour. It will help you seek help.
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Dr. Vishal Bhatt
Psychiatrist
6 yrs exp
Rajkot
It's just like a tobacco or alcohol addiction.. To get rid from this you may block all porn sites and keep mobile from away from you , you may use smart watch for WhatsApp notification and last but not least we may start medicine that will stop reward to your brain that is called nucleus accumbens reward centre of brain so u will have less craving for porn
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