Binge eating during withdrawal?

midlife-survivor

midlife-survivor

Member
Hi,

I've recently dropped the porn, about 2 weeks now and I've noticed an increased hunger for food, but crappy food, it feels like Im just binging on whatever is available to eat in the house in-between meals. This feels quite negative and is making me feel crap, in some ways more so that the porn.

Any thoughts?
 
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Numez

Guest
there can be made connection between binging on anything that makes you feel good (short term) during reboot because brain is starving for dopamine.
 
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gtl923

Active Member
Along the lines of what Numez said, porn addiction is actually an addiction to dopamine so in bing eating you are replacing the means to your addiction instead of fixing the addiction itself. For me it was watching youtube on my phone, so I had to break that habit in addition to quitting PMO.
 
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saneagain

Member
Listen to the people above.

When heavily PMOing I had addiction to fast food, drinking too much, gambling, reading too much news/mindlessly surfing the web.

Since I have been hit by flatline/PAWS(post acute withdrawal syndrome) nothing of the above seems interesting to me. It's the dopamine.

It is totally normal what you experience.
 
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