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I'd love to stop believing in it but it's destroyed a large part of my life. The issue with defining it as an addiction is more of a question of separating fro
by AlecSchueler 4y ago
I'd love to stop believing in it but it's destroyed a large part of my life.
The issue with defining it as an addiction is more of a question of separating from other compulsive issues than not recognising the compulsive issues of the thing itself.
Yes, I understand there's a difference between compulsion and addiction but I'd expect the users of Hacker News to understand enough about how the dopamine system works to see the relationship between the two.
- laserlight 4y agoI'm sorry for your struggles. I hope that you are doing better.
- AlecSchueler 4y agoThank you, I greatly appreciatie your well wishes and the human sentiment behind your remark. I'm glad to have places like this and people like yourself that challenge my beliefs, even when, or especially when, they are rooted in my personal experience.
- rootusrootus 4y ago> I'd love to stop believing in it but it's destroyed a large part of my life. With all due respect, wouldn't it be more accurate to say that you destroyed a large part of your life? It seems like you're blaming porn, as if everyone who is exposed to it becomes addicted. Is it like heroin? Or is it more like alcohol, where many people consume it without becoming addicted, but a few people ruin their lives over it?
- cmh89 4y ago>Is it like heroin? Or is it more like alcohol, where many people consume it without becoming addicted, but a few people ruin their lives over it? It's more like a TV addiction or a video game addiction where the over consumption is a coping mechanism for other things that are wrong in your life. Hence 'porn addiction' not really existing.