fear and anxiety during the detox period of a porn brain rewire I'm Dr. Trish Leigh, responding to a
question from alex down in the comments here on this youtube channel so alex asked talk
about the fear and anxiety that comes during the detox period what can we do about it okay so in
this video i'm going to talk about what causes the fear and anxiety because knowledge is power
and then secondly i'm going to talk about how that is impacting your brain and how your brain
is creating it and that's going to go hand in hand and then number three your brain tip strategy for
the day what you can do about it okay fear and anxiety so the fear and anxiety that you feel
during the detox period of a porn brain rewire usually at first so you decide you commit you're
not going to watch porn anymore you're not going to masturbate and it's two days later and you feel
like absolute garbage right the reason you feel like garbage and you might have fear and anxiety
is fear and anxiety come out of that very fast brain speed it's called high beta and what high
beta is is it's literally electrical energy that is cranking fast and if you have a muse headband
you'll know what i'm talking about because what you'll see is on the headband your percentage
of calm will be lower and lower if you don't go into the screen and masturbate so what happens is
this fast high energy is increasing and it's producing cortisol the stress neurotransmitter
in your brain that's what makes you want to go into the screen because when you watch porn what
it does is it creates that dopamine deluge and that deluge takes your brain out of this fast
state into the slow calm chill state and that is basically the reason that you end up feeling
fear and anxiety when you're detoxing is because you're not giving your brain all that dopamine
it's not getting what it wants and what it's used to in the cycle of pornography so you
get a dopamine deficit because your brain's been taught dopamine deficient in the world
dopamine deluge in the screen so when you leave the deluge behind you get a deficit okay so that's
number one and two to move to number three what can you do about the fear and anxiety you need
dopamine but we're rewiring your brain and we're training it that the dopamine is not in the screen
anymore dopamines in the world dopamines in your work dopamine's in your hobbies dopamines
in hanging out with your honey dopa means in healthy sexuality connection mental emotional and
physical connection so you have to retrain your brain dopamines in the world and you do it in
those ways but it's tricky because it's twofold you have to teach your brain that not only is
the dopamine in the world but there's a lot less of it we know that when you go into the screen
porn is a super normal stimulus it gives a deluge a flood of dopamine brains weren't meant to have
dopamine deluges deluge w shy they were meant to have the healthy levels of dopamine that are
gotten from work play in relationships so when you go into the world there's going to be lower levels
so there is going to be a time period of unwiring of the brain pattern and rewiring of the healthy
brain pattern so there will be discomfort and so if you feel fear and anxiety i want you to know
that it's neurochemically driven you're feeling it because you don't have the dopamine you can offset
it by trying to get as much dopamine as possible but in the short run until your brain rewires
you won't be able to get the amount that you had been getting before and that's okay so you come
up with strategies to offset fear and anxiety positive affirmations can be really powerful
using your breathing techniques and i've shared these on my other youtube channel Brain Rewire,
Dr. Trish Leigh, where i just talk about brain stuff meditation can be really powerful if you
don't follow me over on that channel jump on over and follow me over there because i give
you lots of strategies to implement in your life just to help your brain performance to
offset anxiety and to improve focus so there's strategies over there for you
but in this video you can remember that you're not going to be able to get the amount of dopamine
but you need to create it in your world and then make a strategy to be able to get comfortable
with being uncomfortable as your brain is rewiring itself i want you to remember you're stronger than
you know you are i write that in the comments because i want you to know that this thing can
kick your booty but you're stronger and you can kick it back you might think that hijacker's
smart you're smarter that hijacker came out of you you're the smart one you're the one
smarter and stronger and you can win you can win this journey if you want to let's get all in all
right double down get all in on this journey and you can handle the fear and anxiety get
comfortable with being uncomfortable okay if you need more help on this journey i'm here for you
please go over to my website www.drtrishleigh.com i have programs in different shapes and sizes if
you are suffering with fear and anxiety during the detox period your brain probably has some
rewiring to do the 90-day program is complete and that is the program that most people need
if you're not interested in that level of a program yet join the fundamentals program it'll
get you started okay i hope this helps you out and as always control your brain or it'll control you