The Porn Addiction Crisis No One Wants to Talk About – Dr. K

Any time we watch pornography, masturbate, and get sexual stimulation, our negative emotions like fear and anxiety, that part of your brain just gets suppressed. And this is where people get into a lot of trouble, because suppressed emotions just grow over time. So the more guilty I become, the more of a loser I become. The harder it is to date, the worse I feel about myself, the more I fall into pornography. So this becomes a, a neurological cycle. But here's the real problem: all addictions are on the rise, and this is why.

Dr. K is back, and the Harvard-trained psychiatrist is breaking down modern mental health, addiction- And the non-traditional ways to break away from their cycles.

There's lots of stuff happening around us that affects our lives that we have no control over. For example, because of the dating and mating crisis, we no longer have sexual connections, emotional connections, and there's a part of the brain that is getting starved 'cause sex is so important. So there's something missing in our lives, and that's what is necessary for addiction to grow. And this is creating huge problems, because it's sort of like if I fill up your stomach with unhealthy food, you don't have any micronutrients, but you're not gonna crave broccoli. So that's what's happening in our society. We're using porn as a substitute for relationships, and that's creating these really strong societal pressures, including a mass extinction event, because we've got 32-year-olds who do not know how they're gonna ever have children. Men are getting really, really angry. There's like this incel movement. Like women feel safer with a wild bear than they do with a man.

I mean, there's, there's a lot that I'm thinking about, like what do you do about this?

The whole reason we get trapped in a cycle of addiction is because we have one solution to one problem. The moment that we create a second solution, a lot of things change, and we'll get to that.

What, what about psychedelics?

So here's the real problem with psychedelics-

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