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[-] Kafkacious@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

This is a refreshing comment thread compared to reddit these days. You just get shouted at saying something like this. There are chemically addictive things and then there are things that are addictive and habit forming because they are fun. Totally separate things. One takes self control, one takes outside help.

Accurrate comic though minus the being able to go over a week part!

[-] Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago
[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip -2 points 1 year ago

Those addictions are only addictive because of underlying issues.

Fix those issues, and you will not be addicted anymore.

[-] idiomaddict@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Those issues are much harder to solve and play a much greater role in “hard addictions” than chemical dependency does.

[-] Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

The problem is, that line of thought isn't very useful conditioning is a thing very much so, and you can absolutely be addicted to the dopamine release. Just because it's downstream doesn't mean the porn isn't the ultimate addictor.

You can also self control your way out of addictive substances like nicotine. Only a scant few need medical intervention. Unless you're going to tell me heroin and alcohol are the only actually addictive substances that exiat. It's INCREDIBLY reductive to reduce anything that doesn't have a specific chemical addiction mechanism to "not an addiction get help lol". Yes, get help. Probably from these things called addiction therapists, that deal with things like porn addiction and gambling addiction.

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