128: Overcoming Pornography for Good with Sara Brewer
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The Dopamine Thing
There's a popular app out there called BrainBuddy that people use. I don't think it's very effective, but it's on this theme that dopamine is the enemy. So participating in activities that give you dopamine are harmful. Therefore, we're gonna cut out dopamine in your life and pornography is your main source of dopamine. That kind of an idea. Where does that theory break down? I think if we villainize dopamine, we kind of get the same thing as if we're villainizing sexuality,. Yeah. You do get more dopamine in your brain. And so with porn, there's some extra dopamine. And that's why you might have consistent or more compulsive urges to
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