Chapter 9
Health
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This is the area where the brainwashing is the greatest with users โ particularly the young and single โ who think theyโre aware of the health risks but arenโt. Many kid themselves by saying theyโre prepared to accept the consequences. If your internet router had a function that played an alarm tone with a warning when you hit a ๐๐๐๐ site saying โ โUp until now youโve gotten away with it, but if you stay another minute your head will explode.โ Would you have stayed? If youโre in doubt about the answer try walking up to a cliff, standing on the edge with your eyes closed and imagining having the choice of either quitting ๐๐๐๐ or walking up blindfolded.
Thereโs no doubt what your choice would be, but by burying your head in the sand and hoping that youโll wake up one morning and not want to watch ๐๐๐๐ anymore, you accomplish nothing. Users cannot allow themselves to think of the health risks, because if they do, the addictionโs illusory enjoyment goes. This explains why shock treatments are so ineffective in the first stages of quitting: itโs only non-users who bring themselves to read about the destructive brain changes.
Take this common conversation with users, generally younger ones.
Me: โWhy do you want to stop?โ
User: โI read in a pick-up artistโs blog that itโs good to stop for four days to amp myself up.โ
Me: โArenโt you worried about the health risks?โ
User: โNo, I could step under a bus tomorrow.โ
Me: โBut would you deliberately step under a bus?โ
User: โOf course not.โ
Me: โDo you not bother to look left and right when you cross the road?โ
User: โOf course I do.โ
Exactly, they go through a lot of trouble not to step under a bus and the odds are thousands to one against it happening. Yet the user risks the near-certainty of being crippled by their addiction and appears to be completely oblivious. Such is the power of the brainwashing; internet ๐๐๐๐ is a wolf in sheepโs clothing. Isnโt it strange that if we felt there were the slightest fault in an airplane we wouldnโt go up in it โ even though the risks are millions to one โ yet we take more than a one-in-four certainty with ๐๐๐๐ and are apparently oblivious to it? What does the user get out of this? Absolutely nothing!
Another common myth is depression or peevishness. Many younger people arenโt worried about their health because they donโt suffer any of the depression or melancholy. The depression or stress isnโt the disease, itโs a symptom. Younger people in general donโt feel the irritability or depression created due to their bodyโs natural ability to produce more dopamine. As they age or their lives encounter serious setbacks, their already depleted resources are overworked and theyโll experience full-blown symptoms. When older users feel stressed, depressed or irritated, itโs because natureโs fail-safe mechanisms are protecting the nervous system from excessive dopamine-flooding through trimming receptors. The user also develops other neurological changes that keep them in the rut.
Think of it this way, if you had a nice car and allowed it to rust without doing anything about it, that would be pretty stupid. It would quickly become an immovable heap of rust, incapable of transporting you anywhere. However, it wouldnโt be the end of the world as itโs only a question of money. But your body is the vehicle that carries you through life. We all say that our health is our greatest asset โ ask any sick millionaire. Most of us can look back on an illness or accident in our lives where we prayed to get better. By being a ๐๐๐๐ user, youโre not only letting the rust get in and doing nothing about it, youโre systematically destroying the one vehicle used to go through your entire life.
Wise up. You donโt have to do this. Remember, itโs doing absolutely nothing for you. Just for a moment, take your head out of the sand and ask yourself that if you knew with certainty that your next session would start a process that would make you utterly unresponsive to someone you deeply love, would you continue using? Speaking to the people this happens to, they certainly didnโt expect it would happen to them either, and the worst thing isnโt the disease itself but the knowledge that theyโve brought it on themselves. Try to imagine how people whoโve โhit the buttonโ feel, for them the brainwashing is ended. They spend the remainder of their lives thinking, โWhy did I kid myself for so long that I needed to masturbate to internet ๐๐๐๐? If only I had the chance to go back!โ
Stop kidding yourself, you have that chance. Itโs a chain reaction, if you engage in the next ๐๐๐๐ session, itโll lead you to the next one and the next. Itโs already happening to you. EasyPeasy promises no shock treatment so if youโve already decided that youโre going to stop, the following wonโt be shocking for you. If you havenโt, skip the remainder of this chapter and come back to it once youโve read the rest of the book.
Volumes upon volumes of research have already been written about the damage internet ๐๐๐๐ causes to our sex lives and mental well-being. The trouble is that until deciding to stop they donโt want to know. Forums and mentor groups are a waste of time because ๐๐๐๐ puts the blinders on. If inadvertently read, the first thing they do is to open their favorite tube site. ๐ฏ๐๐๐ users tend to think of the happiness, stress and sex hazards as a hit-and-miss affair, like stepping on a land mine.
Get it into your head, itโs already happening. Every single time you open your ๐๐๐๐ site youโre triggering dopamine-flooding and opioids getting to work. The neural water slides are greased and the ride takes you smoothly through the next steps, your brain having already given in to the script. The nervous system is now flooded by dopamine and since itโs the umpteenth time, dopamine receptors close up and the little monster uses this slight dip in pleasure compared to the last time to drive you further over the red line to more-shocking ๐๐๐๐ or behaviour in order to release more dopamine. More novelty, more dopamine and the little monster tells you to keep going. So many pictures and videos in a single session triggers a supernormal stimulus, injecting more chemicals into the brain and driving you to continue.
The entire time, your receptors are receiving information to shut down in response to the flooding. Orgasm only increases this effect and leads to withdrawal. Youโre in denial since the little monster craves for its fix with no real pain and discomfort. The threat of having erectile dysfunction terrifies many, which is why they block it from their mind and overshadow it with the fear of stopping. Itโs not that the fear is greater, but quitting today is immediate. Why look on the negative side? Perhaps it wonโt happen, having bound to have quit by then anyway.
We tend to think of ๐๐๐๐ as a tug-of-war: on one side is fear, โItโs unhealthy, filthy and enslaving.โ On the other side, the positives: โItโs my pleasure, my friend, my crutch.โ It never seems to occur to us this side is also fear; itโs not that we enjoy ๐๐๐๐, itโs that we tend to be miserable without it. Heroin addicts deprived of heroin go through misery, but picture the utter joy when theyโre finally allowed to plunge a needle into their vein and end that terrible craving. Try to imagine how anyone could actually believe they get pleasure from sticking a hypodermic syringe into a vein. Non-heroin addicts donโt suffer that panic feeling and heroin doesnโt relieve the feeling, it causes it.
Non-users donโt feel miserable if they arenโt allowed to use ๐๐๐๐ โ itโs only users that suffer that feeling. Internet ๐๐๐๐ doesnโt relieve the feeling, it causes it. The fear of the negative consequences doesnโt help users quit, because they liken the feeling to walking through a minefield. If you get away with it, fine, but if you were unlucky you stepped on a mine and faced the consequences. If you knew the risks and were prepared to take them, what did it have to do with anyone else? Addicts in this state typically develop the following evasive tactics.
โYouโll eventually get old and lose your sexual prowess anywayโฆโ
Of course you do, but sexual prowess isnโt the point โ weโre talking slavery here. Even if thatโs the case, is that a logical reason for deliberately cutting yourself short?
โQuality of life is more important than just living.โ
Precisely! Are you suggesting that the quality of life of an addict is greater than someone who isnโt addicted? Do you really believe the quality of a userโs life is better than a non-userโs? A life spent covering their head in the sand and being miserable doesnโt sound like a pleasant one.
โIโm single and not planning to settle down in the future, so why not?โ
Even if that were true, is that a logical reason for playing with neurological impulse-control mechanisms? Can you possibly conceive of anyone being stupid enough to strip naked whenever theyโre alone, regardless of how sure they arenโt expecting anyone? Thatโs what ๐๐๐๐ users effectively do!
Progressive gunging-up of our reward circuits with excessive stimulation, and making them incapable of handling normal stresses of life doesnโt help in enjoying your life with enthusiasm and vigour. ๐ฏ๐๐๐ and masturbation has replaced the natural sexual appetite, like a chocolate bar replacing real food. Unsurprisingly, many doctors and psychologists are now relating various mental-health problems to physiological causes. The mainstream medical community has laboured that ๐๐๐๐ has never been scientifically proven to be the direct cause of the issues reported by self-confessing individuals, but admitting oneโs sexual inability in public is such a shame-triggering event, so why would anyone do so unless they were really concerned, having found the cause and eliminated it from their own lives?
EasyPeasy will help you rid yourself of ๐๐๐๐ and become a happy ex-user. No ๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐๐-aided masturbation or unnecessary orgasms. The only aid will be the touch, sight and scent of your partner. Like wholegrain bread after a well developed appetite, youโll no longer want the high-fructose corn syrup of internet ๐๐๐๐. Evidence so overwhelming needs no proof; when I bang my thumb with a hammer and it hurts, it need not be proven. The stress of internet ๐๐๐๐ has flow-on effects onto other aspects of the userโs life, predisposing many to turn to drugs such as cigarettes and alcohol to cope, and in some instances even turning the host to consider suicide.
Users also suffer illusions that the ill effects of ๐๐๐๐ are overstated. The reverse is the case, thereโs no doubt that internet ๐๐๐๐ is the major cause of sexual dysfunction and many other problems. How many divorces have been caused by ๐๐๐๐? There are no reliable ways to know, but searches of online communities suggest the number is growing exponentially.
Thereโs an episode of Friends where the guys, who were receiving continuous free ๐๐๐๐ on TV, started to wonder why the pizza delivery girl didnโt ask to check out their โbig bedroomโ. When youโre addicted, you invariably project ๐๐๐๐ fantasies on real women. Imagine what careless or even accidental ๐๐๐๐ exposure on the darker sides of the internet might do to someone already at a tipping point in their life. Fighting against these ๐๐๐๐-induced thoughts will be a major drain on their mental health.
(Hereโs another thought experiment: letโs say someone comes to you and says they donโt necessarily want an orgasm but very much want to make love, even penetratively. They want to do it for as long and as far as you can go without an orgasm โ but if it happens then itโs fine. I assure you of a phenomenal new sexual experience far better than any other, if you ever get that offer. Try it.)
Effects of the brainwashing make us tend to think like the man who, having fallen off a 100-storey building, is quoted saying as he whizzes past the fiftieth floor, โSo far, so good!โ We think that as weโve gotten away with it so far, one more ๐๐๐๐ session wonโt make the difference. See it another way: the โhabitโ is a continuous chain for life with each session creating the need for the next. When you start the habit, you light a fuse. The trouble is, you donโt know how long the fuse is. Every time you give in to a ๐๐๐๐ session youโre one step closer to the bomb exploding. HOW WILL YOU KNOW IF ITโS THE NEXT ONE?