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Samir Gardner argues porn use is a learned habit, not a disease, and compares it to video games or junk food. He says quitting takes anywhere from days to months depending on the person, and warns against obsessing over counting recovery days.
Samir Gardner argues porn use is a learned habit, not a disease, and compares it to video games or junk food. He says quitting takes anywhere from days to months depending on the person, and warns against obsessing over counting recovery days.
The amount of time that it takes to recover is purely subjective because here, this is not about recovery. We're simply leaving a behavior behind. If you compare pornography with other behaviors such as video games, for example, or even junk food or anything that you overcame that society nowadays deems as addictive, you'll see that you didn't take a recovery-like approach to them, but rather you took a rational decision-making approach to, is it better for me or not? But again, we're not treating a pathological issue. This is not a Porn is not a disease, but instead it's a psychological issue. It's simply a learned preference. So the number of days it takes for you to just completely leave it behind and forget about it is going to be completely subjective. It can take as much as a few days or as much as maybe a few weeks, a few months. But I would never ever, if I was you, count the time that it's going to take or constantly try to focus on if I recovered or not, because it's going to be destructive. Because it's only going to bring you the opposite of what you want, the opposite of freedom.
