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4 hours ago
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sshine
3 hours ago
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Feedback on personal assessment:

“Do you experience sleep issues because of watching porn late at night?”

You can either say “No, I have a healthy sleep schedule” or porn is causing the sleep problems to some degree. Seems a little narrow. I don’t have a good sleep schedule; most often it’s working too much. But my sleep schedule is almost always unrelated to watching porn.

If you rephrase the options, “No, porn doesn’t affect my sleep schedule negatively” doesn’t make assumptions about other factors that cause lack of sleep.

Alternatively, you can ask about sleep quality overall. There surely are correlating factors, but not sure how deep the rabbit hole goes exploring cross effects.

Another point of feedback: “Has porn affected your self-esteem negatively?” — it should be possible to say “I don’t know.” I’m sure some men know that porn is tightly connected with self-esteem problems. But others may not see the connection in their life. (I don’t have big self-esteem problems; happily married with beautiful wife. But they’re also not non-existent.)

Last point of feedback: the severity score. Is that scientifically backed? Or is it just my position in the normal distribution? Put some reference to how this is calculated and what medical authority backs this definition.

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atum47
4 hours ago
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I find it easy to quit when you are on a relationship, hard when you're single.
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tenderfault
4 hours ago
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i don’t think you were in a relationship long enough to draw a conclusion. actually, it’s the opposite.
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akshat8605
4 hours ago
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I have build a porn addiction quitting app to solve my problem then opened it for people and found out that people are loving my choice which feels great!

I did months of research to figure out how to actually quit porn addiction as it was having alot of visible negative impacts on me.

If you are also suffering, give it a shot

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littlestymaar
4 hours ago
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Tangential note: porn can indeed be damaging for your mental health, but abstinence raises the risk of prostate cancer by a lot, so you better keep fapping even when after stopping porn.
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