Rebooting Your Brain Will Change The Way You Think, Forever
Rebooting your system is a theory based on the idea that watching porn changes the chemical structure of the brain and makes viewers addicted. Forcing yourself to stop watching it allows the brain to reset and will help free yourself from its addictive power.
What’s the science behind this?
Neuroscientists have now found that the brain is not hardwired from birth, but “neuroplastic”. As Norman Doidge, psychiatrist and author of The Brain That Changes Itself says: “not only can it change, but that it works by changing its structure in response to repeated mental experience”.
This change is most apparent in the reward centre of the brain, where a ‘feel-good’ hormone called dopamine is released every time we achieve something. Watching porn results in an excessive release of dopamine, which damages the neural pathways, establishing a compulsive behaviour pattern.
The impact of porn addiction is similar to the effects that other drug and behavioral addictions have on the brain.
A recent study at Cambridge University found that pornography users are fuelled by a need rather than because they get pleasure from it. Read more about it at the Your Brain on Porn website.
The SubReddit NoFap, an online support group and resource, and the Your Brain on Porn website recommend a period of abstinence which helps reset the reward centre in the brain. NoFap recommends a 90-day break from porn and masturbating. [Compare to GYE's 90-day challenge]. A thrill from being disciplined replaces the thrill of porngraphic images.
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You’d try out a girl and get a perfect image of what you’ve watched on the internet … you’d want her to be exactly like the one you saw on the internet … it’s ruined the whole sense of love. It hurts me because I find now it’s so hard for me to actually find a connection to a girl.
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