Dear GNews4BadTimez,

I'm sorry to read you're not only struggling with an addiction to porn, but have depression and an anxiety disorder. Those can put someone in a terribly vicious cycle that is incredibly hard to break out of.

I really hope you have sought or are seeking help from a therapist and/or psychiatrist. I've had diagnosed major depression and anxiety, and medication has done a world of good for me. When the major anxiety first set in, I did everything I was supposed to do to treat it (regular exercise, meditation, yoga, saw a good therapist weekly, etc...) but the standard treatments just didn't work. The therapist I was seeing eventually steered me to a psychiatrist she recommended since sometimes as much as we try, our brain chemistry can get out of balance to the point that medication can be extremely helpful in getting it back in balance--it can let the other non-medicinal therapies work where they weren't working without it.

I wish you only the best.

Sincerely,
An Internet Porn Addict

Hi thanks for posting I have experienced the same as you so I can hopefully give you a bit of advice from my experience. First I would take a look around this website there is lots of resources and facts about Porn and porn addiction im sure you will find the information useful. Social Anxiety is difficult but I would just encourage you to try and step out of your comfort zone try and get involved and engage with people more socially start off small and then as you get more confidence go out and do some thing for someone else go and help some one its good to take the focus off yourself and when you think of some one else its fun also find a hobby some thing that you enjoy then you can put your mind onto something else other than porn and you will be interacting more with other people just relax and try and be friendly with everyone. Depression is also hard to deal with but be positive think happy thoughts thing about the good things in life the good points about your life and the good things that you have don’t be negative put your mind into a more positive state. It says in the bible that we should live lives full of Joy and praise Philippians 4:4 (NIV) 4 Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!
If you try and be joyful and have praise even when you don’t feel like it, it can be good and will help you to keep from feeling depressed, it’s the opposite of depression.

Do you go to a church? If not try and get involved with a church they have good groups and you can practise being social with people at church.
That’s all I can think of hope it helps.

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