Here’s how you can overcome any addiction ,(pt. 2)

The modern world has failed us at everything

whether it be for being successful

Having good relationships

or just living a happy life

They imprisoned us by selling us instant gratification

Like Social media, video games, junk food, weed, porn and so on

Those big ass corporations make money by trading our happiness

Robbing us of our true potential

But in this darkness, there still is a way

Before starting the video

If you’re someone who is chronically addicted to an addiction

You can still watch this video, but I recommend seeking professional help first and then following the advice in the video.

If you’re someone who has a screen time of 6+ hours, trying to quit porn but can’t, promised not to touch junk food and weed, yet find yourself having them every day

Then this video is for you

The general advice around leaving any form of addiction has just been beating around the bush to the same concepts of ‘Cold turkey’ and ‘dopamine detox’

For the ones who are a bit unfamiliar with this

The idea of cold turkey just means stopping an addiction completely that you had been doing for years, e.g., no fap

While Dopamine detox focuses on a generalized concept of just flushing out any activity that brings you dopamine or just joy and fun that you perceive to get from watching porn, playing video games and eating junk food, just another indirect way of the cold turkey method, while making dopamine the main Villain.

But in reality, none of these methods actually works and has numerous loopholes which actually harm the practitioners even more than actually helping them

It doesn’t even make sense that a person who has been doing something for a major part of their life would randomly decide to abandon it, just because they want to.

Those perfect individuals package these ideas as something that can only be done by people with high willpower to break free and defy the odds

Sounds astronomical, highly motivating, and lowkey lets you feel that you’re the one, well, that’s their tactic of selling you quick motivation in the name of a solution

And so you do, start no-fap streaks, throw out all those things, make random solutions and many more

but after one or two days, when the motivation drops, why do you find yourself back in your old ways, again in the rut

Even though you promised yourself that you wouldn’t ever touch those again.

You feel like an absolute loser, the guilt, frustration and exhaustion sum into a voice that tells you to give up and overindulge in your vices to numb the pain or worse, to end it all.

I have been there as well

I lost my father to lung cancer when I was 9 result of these addictions

saw many destroy and end their lives behind these vices

and to my personal story

Almost a year ago i had some what similar life to you

I was addicted to porn and fapped 4-5 times a day; my screen time was over 8 hours a day, I was sucking in studies and other activities and had nothing going for me other than my big goals.

Like many i went to YouTube and came across concepts of non-fap, dopamine detox, etc

And obviously, those things didn’t work for me, and I overindulged on my vices until

I came across the three-way protocol that freed me from the chains of my vices, which I am going to teach you today

And to be completely honest with you, even now, I fumble a lot, but I am nowhere close to the point I was, and you won’t be after a few months if you follow the steps I am gonna share with you

Firstly

1. Dopamine isn’t the Villain, your addictions are

I already have a separate video on this topic, where I discuss everything in detail. You can check out that video, it’s just 5 mins long and will give you enough clarity on dopamine

The internet has made Dopamine it’s common enemy and has instilled a perception that dopamine is bad for you, but in reality, it’s quite the opposite of what actually happens

Dopamine is actually a hormone that is responsible for your happiness, motivation and drive to do anything

In the early 2000’s at the University of North Carolina, major experiments were conducted where two rats were kept a few centimetres from food, one rat was fully healthy but very low in dopamine, and another rat wasn’t good but high in dopamine. During the experiment, it was discovered that the rat low in dopamine didn’t move from his initial point and died from starvation, and the unhealthy one high in dopamine somehow managed to get the food and actually survived.

This shows how important dopamine really is, but it generally isn’t termed well just because of how it functions in response to some activities

In brief, Everybody has a baseline for dopamine release. When you eat something you like, smoke weed and play video games, your dopamine release peaks high, but after the activity is done, your dopamine release drops below baseline, thus giving you a new, lower baseline.

And to obtain that hike, you do those activities again and again, hoping to get more dopamine, which you get for a certain time, but in disguise, you’re actually lowering your dopamine to the point that anything other than those activities seems non-productive to your brain.

And that’s the reason it’s so hard to leave an addiction, it’s not about willpower and discipline, your own mind and often body is against leaving the thing that has been giving you happiness for months or years.

This general advice of shutting it down completely out of the blue and betting on your willpower isn’t letting you let go of it

It will take time and the right mindset to achieve it, and that brings us to our second and most important protocol

2. Progression overload

The concept of Progression overload is the exact opposite of the cold turkey method, where you, instead of completely cutting it off like in the cold turkey method, you slowly reduce the amount of consumption of that habit

Practically, it will look like - Suppose in a day you smoke or vape maybe 5 times, the cold turkey way just says to stop vaping completely, as if nothing happened; the concept of Progression overload suggests that instead of vaping 5 times a day, try to smoke up to 4 times a day and when you’re comfortable with it decrease it to 3, then to 2 and so on until that addiction isn’t part of your life.

Now the retards would be saying that, ‘Whoa, whoa, aren’t they still doing it?’ Yeah, dumbass, they are, but today they did it less than yesterday, and that’s fucking progress.

This protocol has really helped me to recover from both my addictions and the guilt and damage to my willpower.

At present, I am not addicted to porn anymore, and my screen time is less than 4 hours now.

This change will take time and a lot of patience, but trust me, bro, one day you will be free from all of this after you follow the 3rd and final protocol, and it’s

3. Address and heal from the trauma first

Your addictions and vices are actually a way for you to numb the pain caused by your past traumas and experiences

It can be a bad breakup, a bad experience, the loss of someone important, failures, regrets, or anything.

You have to first address it and then start the process of healing from it, because even if you follow the first two protocols and skip this, no matter how many times you get out of your addiction, you will find yourself back in this rut.

For me, it was a couple of things, a bad breakup where that girl cheated on me and ended up with a better guy than me at that point in my life, when I was in 9th standard, falling behind in studies in my last two years of high school and a deep trauma from which still i haven’t fully recovered from, of losing my father at a very young age.

I addressed them and accepted my shortcomings and things I hadn’t had in my control, thus starting my healing process

So now, I am gonna show you how you can do it, first, for 10 minutes, put aside everything, and just stare at the wall, first you will feel bored and a little anxiety, then out of nowhere, some memories will pop out of those traumatic events, now don’t shove them off and fall back to your addictions rather shut your adult brain and with your child brain address them, accept those and take steps to heal from them like for example,

suppose one of your trauma is getting rejected from a girl very badly, so instead of replaying that scene over your head again and again you focus on the things you had control, maybe your skills of talking with girls and your overall appearance and personality which you can focus on now to never get rejected like that again and what were the things you didn’t had in your hands, the girl’s attitude, her relationship status at that moment and her emotional state. Now, you acknowledge it as more of a lesson, not a trauma, and do things to ensure that nothing like this ever happens again.

Honestly, that’s it, bro, just follow this 3-way protocol, and as promised, you can overcome any addiction.

Now, to make this journey even better, you should consider individuals or partners for accountability, and so I have created a Discord server where you can stay accountable and share your progress on the way. (Linked down below)

Additionally, if you would like to discuss your concerns with me personally, you can schedule a call by clicking the link below. The first call is free, then I charge a dollar per 30 mins, as my time is scarce and I have other side hustles to pay rent and stuff.

Until then

Awaken the valour within you 

Discord server :- https://discord.gg/c8ve76Eq

Book a call with me :-https://calendly.com/subhajitmitraapdjn/30min 

Peace🕊️