I’m addicted to self-pleasure and I don’t know how to stop doing it
DEAR DEIDRE: I CAN’T stop masturbating. I’m afraid it has made me lazy and bedridden but I’m addicted.
I am a guy of 18 who discovered masturbation when I was 13 and now I can’t stop. I do it many times a day.
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I was studying for my A-levels when the pandemic arrived.
I already kept wanting to go back to bed to masturbate and sleep when I should have been studying.
When they stopped school and the exams, I just hid away in my bedroom and ignored work. Now I can’t get back to normal.
DEIDRE SAYS: It is normal to enjoy masturbation at your age but it sounds like you are using it as a comfort rather than confronting the stresses in your life.