Progaming and dopamine abuse

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zatic

Zurich15328 Posts

July 02 2012 14:33 GMT

#61

On July 02 2012 14:37 hersenen wrote:
Hey guys I noticed I feel good whenever I eat food and drink water, is this EFS (eat food syndrome)? I think it's causing too much dopamine to be released which is probably why I'm failing in school and why my life sucks so much. Are there any subreddits where people feel the same way? This is a serious problem and I really need a support group guys.

I am too lazy to look it up but I would bet you there are subreddits for drinking and eating disorders. It's not such an outragious claim to assume the same effects with PMO.

Wortie

Netherlands212 Posts

July 02 2012 14:43 GMT

#62

ITT: first world problems...

HeavOnEarth

United States7087 Posts

July 02 2012 22:50 GMT

#63

Small update:
its around day 20 for me , and im rather depressed + low energy, as opposed to the first week where i was a bouncing ball of productivity and positivity. the days i take off from the gym are usually the worst, but everything is improving rather well albeit some bad days ^^

one of the best motivators thus far is reading other peoples successes on the subreddit .

it wasn't so much a problem in of itself, aside from the cognitive dissonance thing i mentioned in the blog caused by the escalation . BUT it took my focus away from addressing the problems i have with my life, ie my life would be going shitty and i wouldn't care.

stopping masturbation therefore just allowed me to see the problems i have with myself and address them normally, as any person would usually.

This is not to be misunderstood, however, pornography and abusing your brains dopamine is very dangerous, and is comparable to coke. (not that i know, just what ive read)
http://www.reddit.com/r/NoFap/comments/w8hbi/important_information_every_nfer_should_be_aware/

That said, most of you would benefit seeing this as a challenge and an experiment, but obviously not me. for me its just a way of life i need to adopt in order to be functional in society.

Anyways, i've been going to the gym regularly(for 5 weeks now) , eating healthy , sleeping well , quitting progaming and going back to engineering. Theres also various other self improvement methods i've researched and tried out but i wont list them all.

I believe i'll switch to petroleum, but im just happy with going back to school seriously at this point.
i still have a couple months before my semester starts, so if im able to achieve anything before then in sc2 it would be nice, but not something i will base my happiness around.

Did you ever fap beforehand or did you just start when you were in college or something? Porn addictions are real but this sounds like bro science bullshit.

I started watching porn at 8, in a public library. my parents would drop me off there as a daycare
As i've stated, i've left a lot of information out, and at the moment of writing the blog i wasn't really educated that well on the topic

I mean to make it simple, i treat my brain like a pet. Theres the animalistic part of the brain where it would love to do nothing but do things that make it feel good and then theres the neocortex part of my brain that i use to slap it around until it obeys me ^_^. silly brain
It's very very nice to finally start to be logical and self -assured of myself , and be a real man instead of some whiny dog that cries whenever things don't go his way. obviously a kind of pathetically late start as Im 20 already, but i dun give a fuck lol

On July 02 2012 23:33 B.I.G. wrote:
Do you have one arm that is extremely ripped now or do you switch arms often?

hahaha actually this is quite true, my left arm is not really any bulker , but definitely more toned up than my right. lol

day twenty whatever, social anxiety is SOO much less now ^_^ its been forever since ive just been out all day instead of sitting on a computer. Life is good =]

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