Anne Truong MDMen's Sexual Health Doctor

The psychological impact of porn and addiction #shorts #addiction #youtubeshorts #viral #fyp

10 Dec 2023 · 1 min

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Short YouTube video (Anne Truong MD) explaining psychological consequences of porn addiction: mood disturbances (boredom, detachment), emerging shame and guilt, progression to depression (persistent sadness, feeling 'dark cloud') and anxiety (worry about negative life consequences), with porn used cyclically as an escape.

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What about, like, the psychological part that you mentioned? What happened during porn addiction?
Yeah. So the psychological piece is that we start to see that it's now associated with disturbance in the mood. So I alluded to it when I said, okay, when you're doing everything else, you're bored, you're detached. It doesn't feel good anymore. We also start to see shame and guilt. And when we see a lot of that come in, you start to see depression. Person is down most of the time, and just feeling of sadness, feeling of, okay, there's this dark cloud over me. There can also be anxiety because the person may be noticing that, okay, my world is falling apart. There are all these negative consequences that are happening to me, and they may have anxiety because of that. And then again, porn becomes an escape.