Is Pornography Addiction Real? Everything You Wanted to Know (And Didn't Know You Wanted To Know) About Porn Addiction

The Virtual Couch

Tony Overbay LMFT

Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.9 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Tony tackles the topic of pornography today in a completely strength-based, hold-the-shame, become the person you always wanted to be way. He addresses the age-old question of whether or not pornography addiction is even a diagnosable condition...and better yet, does that matter? Tony shares his views on “the voids” in one’s life that typically lead to the brain wanting to cope, or check-out, by viewing pornography. These voids include the lack of connection in marriage, in parenting, not feeling satisfied in your career, not feeling good about your health, and feeling disconnected with your concept of faith. Tony reads from his book, “He’s a Porn Addict...Now What? An Expert and a Former Addict Answer Your Questions” available through the following links: https://amzn.to/33fk0U4 paperback https://amzn.to/38hRcx3 Kindle version https://amzn.to/2G30PDu Hardcover version

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Tony Overbay, is the co-author of "He's a Porn Addict...Now What? An Expert and a Former Addict Answer Your Questions" now available on Amazon https://amzn.to/33fk0U4. The book debuted in the number 1 spot in the Sexual Health Recovery category and remains there as the time of this record. The book has received numerous positive reviews from professionals in the mental health and recovery fields.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Coming up on today's episode of the virtual couch, we're going into the world of compulsive behavior, specifically pornography or that word that must not be named.
0:08.9	And I know for a lot of you when you hear the topic, you're probably thinking hard pass.
0:12.9	But stick around for a bit and I promise you that we are going to learn something new today that will either help you or somebody that you put turning to pornography as a coping mechanism for, I don't know, you name it, stress, boredom, loneliness, anger
0:24.5	behind them once and for all. That and so much more coming up on today's episode of the virtual
0:28.7	couch.
0:55.3	Hey, everybody. Welcome to episode 223 of the virtual couch. I am your host, Tony Overbay. I'm a licensed marriage and family therapist, certified mindful have a coach, writer, speaker, husband father of four, ultramarathon runner, and creator of the path back, an online pornography recovery program that is helping people reclaim their lives from the harmful effects of pornography.
1:01.3	If you or anybody that you know is ready to put turning to pornography as a coping mechanism behind them once and for all,
1:07.0	and trust me, it can be done and a strength-based, hold the shame, become the person you always wanted to be way,
1:35.3	then turn to pathback recovery.com, and there you will find a short short ebook that describes five common mistakes that people make when turning to pornography as a coping mechanism, or trying to put pornography behind them once and for all. How many times have I said that? And I just got it wrong, but I was trying to go off the cuff here, no script, and that's what I get for that. So head over to PathbackRecovery.com, and again, download that short ebook that describes, here we go, five common mistakes that people make when trying to put pornography behind them, once and send for all, again, pathback recovery.com.
1:41.6	And you can find me on Instagram at virtual couch and on Facebook at Tony Overbay, licensed marriage and family therapist.
1:47.8	And stop by Tonyoverbay.com, completely redone website, and you can sign up there to find out more information about actually a Pathback reboot that is coming up soon that I am so
1:52.9	excited about.
1:54.0	And the magnetic marriage course that is getting close, I will have a lot of announcements
1:58.2	coming up in the next probably one to two weeks about how you can find out more about that. But the quickest way is to go to Tonyoverbay.com and sign up to find out more information about all kinds of things. And then there's all right there on the homepage is the parenting positively and the not so positive of times. That is a free course. It's going to remain free. And I highly encourage you to go there. The feedback's been great.
2:22.9	A lot of people have taken the course and there's even starting to be some nice feedback within the course of things that have helped people along the way of parenting. So let's get to today's
2:28.0	episode. And I got to be real. I have wasted over an hour this morning. I got into my office a little
2:32.5	after 4 a.m. trying to get a podcast
2:34.6	recorded before I start seeing clients today at 6. And I had the camera up. I was going to put this
2:41.1	episode on YouTube. I actually recorded about five or 10 minutes and then realized that there were some
2:45.9	parts that I wasn't recording and tried to go back in and suck some audio out of a video file and then started
2:51.5	recording again. And at some point, I just felt like, you know what, I need to reboot. I need to
2:56.0	restart. And so I'm doing this. This episode is not up on YouTube as a video, but I always
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