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Increasing Awareness of Pornography Addiction

by Gordon S. Bruin M.A, L.P.C

“Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.” – Arthur Brisbane

The best definition of self-mastery can be summed up in one word, consistency. One of the greatest challenges we all face in life is coming face to face with the reality that we all fall short of this great goal on a fairly regular basis. No matter how hard we try it seems that we just aren’t able to keep our commitments to ourselves all the time.

We certainly have good stretches of time when we do, but then comes the odd moment when it all seems to fall apart. The temptations hit, the will loses its power and we stumble. No matter what the commitments are from reading scriptures daily, saying prayers daily, eating good foods daily or exercising daily there just seems to be those days or moments when we crash. Our plans and commitments seem to go out the window.

Being a mental health counselor for the past 20 years has taught me that the weakness inherent in the … Read the full article on Increasing Pornography Addiction Awareness here!

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Struggling with pornography and have questions?

InnerGold is here to help you. We just had a recent Q&A about porn addiction. Click the play button above.

Here are some of the questions that were answered about porn addiction:

1. How do I, as a wife, get my husband to see his great worth in the midst of being overcome by his porn addiction, and failing over and over again to overcome his temptations?
2.  Is it true that low serotonin prevents proper dopamine regulation and if so, how can this be raised? Does fish oil help?
3. What are the most common mistakes addicts make that impede their recovery?
4. How does one proceed when depression symptoms seem to be dominant over even porn addiction?
5. What are some of the best coping mechanisms for newly recovering addicts?
6. How do u get this hedonic point back down?
7. There are many tactics to overcome porn addiction that seem to be helpful, but I tend to get bored using the same tactics over and over, so I tend to switch back and forth between tactics from time to time. Do you feel that there are a set of tactics that are absolutely mandatory, and what are they?
8. I hear AA members say that they stay sober by simply not drinking (not feeding their addiction). But with sex addiction, it seems that I’m constantly “drinking”, or at least it’s like the world is an “open bar” if you will.  Is sex addiction the most difficult addiction to deal with?
9. Can you get into more depth about ways to lower your “hedonic” step point?
10. What is the line between porn addiction and sex addiction?
11. Can you briefly discuss the details of what a daily planning sheet is?
12. In your experience are people with good sex life (attractive and active spouse for example ) addicted to porn?

Read all of the questions about porn addiction here.

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Gordon answers the questions of addicts struggling with porn addiction. Porn destroys lives, don’t let it destroy yours. InnerGold will help!

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