Addicted to masterbation

[Pan]

Dear scarleteen team,
I am 26 years old male now.. So recently since 5 to 6 month i think i am addicted to masterbation ...I masterbate regularly after every 2 to 3 days... sometime ..3 times in 3 days...In general you can say i masterbate 3 to 4 times in a week!..i am still single looking for life partner...so being single make me frustrate sometime so i watch porn and masterbate to porn.

My question is how can i overcome this? Or how should i deal with this situation? Any advice?
Though i do not feel guilty after masterbation because i also get so much pleasure from it.
Generally in every morning i always feel little bit moody so i always think about sex and porn in recent time..so i prefer to do masterbation to shift my focus to my routine life like job,etc,etc
So in morning after wake up first 40 to 45 minutes i have to watch porn and do masterbation.thats why i said that i am addicted to masterbation.
Any advice for this situation?
Feel free to ask any questions if you have
Thanks you always

[Sam W]

Hi Pan,

Lots of sex educators, including us here at Scarleteen, don't use the framework of people being addicted to sex or masturbation. Heather goes into a lot of detail as to why that is here: https://www.scarleteen.com/article/advi ... ted_to_sex.

It's more helpful to differentiate when masturbation is being done out of desire and when it's being done compulsively. When you masturbate, are you doing so because you want to? Or are you doing so because you feel like you have to, even if you're not in the mood?