Nonetheless, if you find the hours passing by while you are absorbed in web surfing, programming, or in other ways hanging out on your terminal, then precisely what it's called isn't really too important. Actually, the list can be longer. Porn sites, however, present the biggest problem, since they frequently cost lots of money, cause stress, and frequently painful relationship difficulties, and, when pursued in the workplace, often lead to being fired and humiliated. THis month's article will concentrate on this problem. Porn addiction is the hardest of the computer addictions to stop.
Treatment is rather straightforward.
Some have bonafide sexual obsessions and many other sexual problems. Others don't appear to be seriously disordered, but are upset with themselves for viewing these sites to excess and either seek help directly for this problem or identify it as a problem during the course of treatment for another issue. If you are spending long periods of time, masturbating compulsively, looking at the sites at work or coming home to look at them, then you're probably in trouble. If sexual opportunities with a willing partner leave you fantasizing about how quickly you can get to a porn site, you'd better see somebody asap. Next month I'll give more specific steps in breaking cycles of porn useage on the web, and I'll talk about the other items listed above.