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Dr. Debbie Akerman: Social Worker, Addiction Expert, & Activist

Consider Before Consuming

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Why Is It Difficult to Quit Porn?

The brain hask billions and billions of synapses. Is little spaces in between the channels, and that's where the messages get carried through. So you cannot give the brain anything in substance or behavior that the brain does not already make. And so it starts this real incessant knocking at you, which i think we know now is as the craving. Then you start that vicious cycle. You give the brain the chemical, right? You start to build up a tolerance. You need more of it. The brain produces less. If you have several hundred or thousand, whatever it is, porn sides, new ones being created, your brain is going to be on this incredible dopaman, literal

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