Fight the New Drug — Episode Trailer: "The Brain" II Brain, Heart, World Documentary Series
Favorite Lines:
“…Slowly and steadily, science is catching up with the truth. The effects of porn are far more substantial than what you are being led to believe.”
“Young men and women’s lives are being ruined by excessive pornography.”
“Porn has these adverse effects because it’s captivating. It’s enchanting. You’re focusing on this screen right here, and you’re eliminating everything else in the universe. And I’ve said, everything else in the universe is called ‘life.’”
“There is compelling academic research that confirms pornography addiction is every bit as real as drug addiction.”
“…The more pornography people watch, the less strong the link is between the reward system and the prefrontal cortex.”
…Porn can affect the brain. Call it addiction. Call it compulsion. Some people refer to it as the amygdala highjack.
“When you’re deep in the trenches of viewing pornography, stopping it is going to be really, really difficult. The pornography that you’re watching is usually meeting some need in your life. So one of the ways that you can really speed up in the recover process is that you can find better ways to meet those needs.”
Defend your brain. Treasure it… Take care of it. It was made to take care of you.
“Super-Normal Stimulus” …First, figure out what stimulates the brain. Second, create an exaggerated version. And third, the brain will often come to prefer the exaggerated version.
Eventually we prefer the super-normal stimuli, and we ignore what’s normal for what’s exaggerated.
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