Video Transcript: How to Overcome Your Porn Addiction

The purpose of Your Brain on Porn video series is certainly not to encourage you to stare at  how thick the lab mice are. But to help you be aware that porn is an evolving super stimulus  that your brain has less anticipation of, and hence will help you stay away from the risk of  addiction. The brain plasticity that allows the adjustments upon addiction behavior can  thankfully be reversed by not feeding the same stimulus it used to receive usually termed as  rebooting the brain. For those of you who need to self challenge and want to prove that you're not addicted to porn, or just cannot wait until episode 11 of our video to start your recovery  journey. Have a visit to your preferred support group initiatives in their online forums like  nofap community and join many other brave and committed souls to break free from porn  addiction and get your life back. The process will be difficult, you may experience some  withdrawal symptoms and frequent relapses but keep on going and beat your previous  records again and again. Day by day, and things will get easier. some pro tips for you to be  more prepared for the journey. One, gather as much knowledge about porn addiction as  possible. Also, maybe watch our six underproduction episodes in the future. Two change your environment. Limit your internet browsing in private. invite everyone in or bring your activities  were more public setting. Three. Replace your porn habits with something else you enjoy. For  instance, walking in the park or reading a book in a well lit room with your phone turned off  and sealed in a box. Four be ready for withdrawal symptoms. Calm down and try to  understand and enjoy the feeling of anxiety, irritability, fatigue or drowsiness that will come  after five traveled together. Stay in touch and active with your journey mates through the  rebooting process support each other by giving positive encouragement. All these tips will get  you to a good start, but you still have to be careful of triggers along the way. Avoid these  triggers however you can by one sleeping earning. Staying awake until late past midnight can  trigger you to become horny to limiting your visit to certain places. Places like clubs, music  concerts or popular streets where unexpected people of all kinds meets may tense you  sexually three, limiting your internet and mindless browsing. This can lower the chance of you stumbling into graphics or ideas that fuel your desire to do porn. Take a moment to appreciate how lucky you are to be watching this video right now. Instead of some sexually suggestive  social media experiments. Okay, next four not hanging around very often with people who are still ferociously consuming porn, who remind you of porn or inviting you to it. Five, keeping  yourself busy and productive. boredom and certain emotions may become a trigger if  indulged. There are also some people who do specific weird actions like snorting water  whenever they're about to relapse. make it worse because it's weird. You try whatever works  for you. Our animated unconditional support is always here for a reminder