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Samir Gardner explains that porn addiction isn't in the DSM-5. The brain does change with repeated use through neuroplasticity, but that adaptation doesn't force you to keep watching. It just lowers your resistance to the behavior.
Samir Gardner explains that porn addiction isn't in the DSM-5. The brain does change with repeated use through neuroplasticity, but that adaptation doesn't force you to keep watching. It just lowers your resistance to the behavior.
But what we don't know is that, for example, the DSM-5, which is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, does not even recognize porn addiction as an official diagnosis, nor sex addiction. We also don't know that our brain is always changing. If we simply go and study the concept of neuroplasticity, we'll understand that our brain can always change, and also that our brain changes doesn't compel us to watch porn again or repeat the behavior again, but instead it simply removes the resistance that is there initially when you do a behavior for the first time so that the next time that you do the behavior, you don't have to think too much about how to do it and instead save all of that mental energy so that you can habituate that behavior.
