2. Fixing the Root of the Problem: Over-Desire

Question 1

What is over-desire?

Answer 1

The reason that you feel strong urges, have witching hours, feels so addictive.

Question 2

What qualifies as addiction?

Answer 2

Life has become unmanageable (no job, relationships, etc).

Question 3

Do most people have an addiction or a habit to porn?

Answer 3

Habit.

Question 4

Since you trained your brain to want porn, you can…

Answer 4

Train your brain to not want porn.

Question 5

What is dopamine?

Answer 5

The pleasure chemical (the chemical of seeking).

Question 6

Brain remembers (blank) and (blank) it gets dopamine.

Answer 6

Where, when.

Question 7

What kind of dopamine do porn and other buffers offer?

Answer 7

Very concentrated doses (2x the normal amount).

Question 8

That 2x concentrated dose of dopamine is what creates…

Answer 8

Over-desire.

Question 9

Pavlov trained his dogs to salivate at the sound of the bell. Many people forget that he also…

Answer 9

Trained them to stop salivating at the bell.

Question 10

How does one reverse the over-desire process?

Answer 10

Ring the bell without giving yourself the treat. After enough repetitions, your brain will no longer associate the the trigger with the behavior.