A speaker argues that quitting porn doesn't cause withdrawal symptoms the way drugs do. The discomfort people feel comes from life problems they were escaping, not from stopping the habit itself. Belief that quitting will be miserable becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
A lot of people have this misconception that the moment you leave a behavior that you've been consistently doing for the past few years, that it's going to be miserable to leave it, right? And so that expectation already creates a self-fulfilling prophecy where the individual already feels miserable because he simply expects to feel miserable, right? Which is kind of like a placebo effect. But the truth is, of course, you might feel a bit of discomfort if you've been using porn to escape from your life and now you don't have anything to hide behind to escape from your life, right? You'll finally have to face life, and maybe life is miserable to you, but then that shows that there's nothing to do with it. And on top of that, when it comes to neuroplasticity, a lot of people believe that because their brain change, which occurs within the repetition of any habits or behaviors in order to facilitate the process of doing the behavior again, those brain changes do go away.
