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Do You Need to Take a Dopamine Fast?

The Art of Manliness

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Do You Feel Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety?

Many people say they use a substance where they view pornography, becuse they're depressed. They will tell you that the reason that they use that drug is to help with their depression and anxiety. But in fact, what may be happening is their actually medicating withdrawal from the last dose of their drug. It's created by this pleasure payin balance, putting them in a dopeming deficit state to compensate for the huge amount of pleasure they don't mean they're getting from the drug. So it's certainly a little counter intuitive, because, subjectively, in the moment, it feels like the drugs were helping, but in the long run, it's really making things worse,.

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