Depression Support Group
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Feeling a bit down. I did something I have been trying to stop doing and now I am feeling really disappointed in myself. I wish I could change
Input is data. Output - that's morally analysable.
If you don't want to watch pornography for religious reasons that's all you need to say. If you have been watching illegal pornography and are trying to get off it, that's another thing as well.
But until you're prepared to be clear about what your problem is you'll never fix it. Sex is a necessary requirement of existence. Masturbation is definitely healthy and normal.
Given that we're told some men require visual stimulus to masturbate, it's logical that pornography would be a thing.
I'm just trying to find out if your reaction to pornography is one of repression and calvinist puritanism or if you are at the other end of the spectrum, watching boys doing it with donkeys or whatever, and have a genuine need to get yourself off the stuff.
Having had years of anxiety I"m a master of compulsion. Compulsion is the cure not the disease. the thing you're compelled to do is what your body is trying to get you to do to fix a problem. It can become another problem but it's not the root cause of the problem and until you deal with the root cause, you're pushing the proverbial uphill trying to stop your body drag you towards its physiological cure, or what it thinks of as a physiological cure.
So yeah, I'm actually trying to make sure you actually have a problem, and aren't just locked into some repressed way of thinking. Because if there's nothing wrong with what your'e doing, you're never going to be able to cure yourself.
And to remove something you have to replace it with something better. A wife, for instance.