Episode #169: How Social Media is Worsening Your Porn Addiction — Dr. Trish Leigh
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May 2, 2025
Discover how social media and pornography intertwine to hijack your brain's reward system. Learn about the addictive features of infinite scrolling and intermittent rewards that can lead to anxiety and emotional disconnection. The discussion highlights how these platforms foster feelings of emptiness and sexual dysfunction. Find out why internal validation is crucial and explore tips for healthier social media habits. This journey towards healing reveals your brain's capacity to recover and feel pleasure naturally again.
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Intermittent Rewards Hook Brains
Social media hooks users with intermittent rewards similar to gambling, creating unpredictable dopamine spikes.
This conditions the brain to seek higher dopamine levels, disrupting natural balanced pleasure pathways.
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Infinite Scrolling Drains Brain
Infinite scrolling creates a continuous dopamine loop with no natural stopping point.
This leads to brain dysfunction causing stress, anxiety, and mental fatigue commonly called 'drain brain'.
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Social Media's Psychological Toll
Dopamine-related social media addiction causes psychological symptoms like anxiety, depression, irritability, and sexual dysfunction.
These mental and physical effects stem from the brain's reward system being hijacked.
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Why is it so hard to stop scrolling… and even harder to stop watching porn? 🚨
Social media and pornography are both designed to hijack your brain’s reward system. In this episode, Dr. Trish Leigh breaks down how social media platforms are filled with sexualized content and rapid-fire dopamine hits that condition your brain for addiction. The same neurochemical patterns that make porn addictive are activated every time you swipe, like, or double tap 👀
Over time, this constant stimulation can lead to mental fog, anxiety, depression, and sexual dysfunction — all while making it harder and harder to feel pleasure naturally. If you’re caught in a cycle of social media use, porn, and emotional disconnection, you’re not alone — and your brain can heal 🙌🏼
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Hi. I am Dr. Trish Leigh, a Cognitive Neuroscientist, and Sex Addiction Recovery Coach. I am on a mission to help people heal their brains from porn use. My podcasts are designed to help you learn that: 🎯Porn Damages Your Brain, 🎯Porn Impairs Your Mental and Physical Health, and 🎯Porn Destroys Your Relationships.
Subscribe to this channel for 🧠 tips to: ✅Quit Porn for Good ✅Heal Your Brain from Porn ✅Get Motivated in Your Life ✅Repair Your Mental & Physical Health ✅Heal Erectile Dysfunction
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