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Leon
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Below is a model for habit change, and works with any addiction including sex/porn/masturbation addictions.
Addiction: trigger/urge + repetitious response = habit.
Freedom: trigger/urge + repetitious non-response, or a different response = habit change.
Given the above illustration, habituation first occurred toward the original addiction, and must also occur toward habit change.
Enough times in saying, 'No' to our usual responses, enough times in changing it up, and we've successfully desensitized the porn-addicted neural pathways.
Or, if we lapse and repeat the behavior, we risk re-sensitization of the old neural pathways, and hence relapse occurs.
Habit change is very scientific, though it takes courage and tenacity to never give up in it's implementation.
Danger: What we want to avoid at all costs is being a serial relapser, meaning that our habit has now included a cyclic and predictable pattern of lapsing and 'getting back on the wagon', only to repeat it again and again.
I hope that this illustrates for many that there is hope for any of us in real and lasting change, and that it's not a hopeless disease one has to live with for the rest of their lives.
Addiction: trigger/urge + repetitious response = habit.
Freedom: trigger/urge + repetitious non-response, or a different response = habit change.
Given the above illustration, habituation first occurred toward the original addiction, and must also occur toward habit change.
Enough times in saying, 'No' to our usual responses, enough times in changing it up, and we've successfully desensitized the porn-addicted neural pathways.
Or, if we lapse and repeat the behavior, we risk re-sensitization of the old neural pathways, and hence relapse occurs.
Habit change is very scientific, though it takes courage and tenacity to never give up in it's implementation.
Danger: What we want to avoid at all costs is being a serial relapser, meaning that our habit has now included a cyclic and predictable pattern of lapsing and 'getting back on the wagon', only to repeat it again and again.
I hope that this illustrates for many that there is hope for any of us in real and lasting change, and that it's not a hopeless disease one has to live with for the rest of their lives.