Triggers to watch porn

For years I believed there were many different "triggers" that led to me wanting to watch porn.

For example, if I was dehydrated, if I was tired, if I was stressed, if I was hungover, if I was ill, if I felt overwhelmed, if I felt anxious, the list could go on and on. Basically, if I had any kind of discomfort, I would want to watch porn.

And because for so many years, I'd always relapsed when I had experienced that discomfort - I had started to believe that being triggered was the problem.

I believed that if I could stop being triggered, I could stop watching porn.

External advice supported this myth. However, with my understanding through the Beyond Compulsion method, I now know that the problem is not the triggers. In life, we all experience discomfort from time to time. If you are in an addiction, the addicted part of the mind (APOTM) will use any discomfort as a reason to watch porn. My mistake was that I tried to remove the triggers to get myself free from my porn addiction. But, this only ever worked temporarily. With this approach, I'd always relapse eventually. It was only once I learned to deal with the discomfort directly that I could truly change my neural pathways and start to feel in control of myself, once and for all.