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Bad habits aren’t a willpower problem. They come from one part of your brain, and once you understand it, they’re much easier to break. Here’s how it works: 🧵
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All addictions are about addiction to control. Think about that one… it’s adaptive to strive to control and limit uncertainty. Addiction is when those circuits do so through unhealthy behaviors. Understanding this points to the solution. Dr Anna Lembke MD on Huberman Lab.
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You can only fight off hunger for so long. The hunger is partly for porn and partly for something else.
You never cure hunger. You can eat better food. (3/3)
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All addictions are ultimately about control over uncertainty. Dr Anna Lembke MD of @StanfordMed Chief of Stanford Addiction Medicine, on the Huberman Lab podcast out now. Link below.
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Chris Rock opened up about how he RUINED his marriage through his addiction to P*RN and repeatedly CHEATING on his wife
Perhaps wash your hands first, though.
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Let go of your genitals and take our hand as we lead you into recovery from porn addiction.
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Man watches porn and masturbates in first class on United flight out of California - as woman speaks out trib.al/n1DhkTG
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For many addicts, they relapse b/c things in life are going poorly. But just as many relapse when things are going well. Correction: *because* they’re going well.
Dr Anna Lembke MD addiction expert @Stanford explains
You're most likely to relapse when things go well:
For some people the trigger is loss and stress. For others it's success.
Usually it isn't the reward itself - it's the removal of the hypervigilant state required to keep their use in check.
Seeing that you're most vulnerable when things are going well is the valuable insight. That's when you put barriers in place or go to more meetings.
Dr. Anna Lembke on @hubermanlab
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Eight hours of sleep and a daily walk outside will solve as many of your problems as any guru or life coach.
Another issue we’ve seen is the claim that “porn addiction” and “sex addiction” are the same concepts. The issues may at times overlap, but we believe they are distinct categories.
Problematic pornography use should be classified separately from compulsive sexual behavior involving partnered sex. In our observations, many people struggling with compulsive pornography use choose pornography over opportunities for partnered sex, suggesting that pornography use is not simply interchangeable with partnered sexual activity.
@WHOICD11, for example, specifies gambling disorder as predominantly online or predominantly offline. Similarly, any future classification by @WHO or @APApsychiatric addressing problematic pornography use should distinguish compulsive pornography consumption from compulsive partnered sexual behavior.
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WHY IS THERE HARDLY ANY RATIONAL DISCUSSION ABOUT THE SCIENCE OF PORN?
Unfortunately, the porn as a behavioral addiction debate is largely dominated by activists with strong personal views on pornography. Many rational, level-headed professionals have left the field or steer clear of it.
On one side, anti-porn moralizing activism—for example, bringing broader culture-war rhetoric into addiction arguments. On the other, industry and aligned academics deny science highlighting porn’s potential adverse effects, instead attributing potential problems to non-porn causes—blaming anything but porn.
Porn addicts become collateral damage in a culture war they never asked for. There is a substantial body of scientific research on the potential effects of pornography overuse, but far fewer scientists are willing to publicly discuss their work and risk career retaliation from activists.
It often feels like there are rarely any nuanced takes about porn on X (formerly Twitter). Many of the clinicians and scientists we’ve spoken to either aren’t on X or rarely post. Most of what we see instead is anti-porn activism or pro-porn activism. If anyone can point us toward some more balanced accounts to follow, we’d appreciate it.
Some people portray themselves as balanced, but aren’t really in the middle of the debate—they’re actually far to one side of it. And to be clear, it isn’t balanced to insist that every porn user who experiences problems simply has moral objections to otherwise healthy porn use, or that the presence of a co-occurring issue means pornography itself cannot be a rewarding behavior similar to gambling, which can be abused and potentially contribute to adverse effects for some users. Likewise, not all pornography use qualifies as problematic from a mental health standpoint.
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