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    Anyone tried exposure response prevention therapy (extinction training)?

    Here's an explanation of it from Gary's ebook:- Remember Pavlov's dogs? You may not realize it, but Pavlov didn't just teach his dog to salivate at the sound of a bell. He later taught it to stop salivating to the bell by ringing the bell and then withholding meat (repeatedly). This process...
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    mindfulness

    As part of my healing i've recently taken up mindfulness meditation and am finding it very useful. I was interested in finding out what mindfulness can do to the brain, and it would appear that it basically has the opposite effects to addiction...
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    Knowledge is power

    A series of great articles on addiction and quitting. I found them very interesting and helpful reading, hopefully some of you will too. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/addicted-brains I particularly liked this idea: ...having a dialogue between your present self and your future self. In...
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    My story

    I'm 45 and have been using porn since my early/mid teens. As i got older i bought porn magazines and occasional videos, but it was always on a small scale and i never had a large collection, just a handful of mags/ videos at any one time. Then in the 90s i discovered internet porn, a free...
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    Phone sex problem- advice needed

    Hi, i've recently accepted that i have a phone sex addiction. I've been using phone sex for over 10 years but it has escalated over the past year. I have not used it for 3 months now and am feeling that i can give it up for good as i now understand it's addictive potential for me. The problem...
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