About 110 days ago I was a mess. I couldn’t get it up during intercourse with a beautiful girl, had trouble staying hard during masturbating to porn and I was a lazy slob. These problems caused me severe anxiety, some depression; and serious social insecurities; they also made me feel ashamed of my missed potential. […]
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Having regular great sex with my girlfriend after 9 months of rebooting and 3 months of rewiring. I am 24 and had bad PIED, I PMO’d probably twice a day on average especially when I was at university. I failed to get an erection with three girls until I discovered YBOP in December last year […]
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Front Psychiatry. 2011 Jul 6;2:37. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2011.00037. eCollection 2011. Helena J. V. Rutherford1*, Sarah K. Williams2*, Sheryl Moy2,3, Linda C. Mayes1 and Josephine M. Johns2,3 1 Yale Child Study Center, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA 2 Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA 3 Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities, […]
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Hi guys! I wan’t to tell you all my story and what I’ve learned about this awful addiction. Escalation: I use to have a strong sexual drive and high libido since I remember. I started with porn at 14 years old through some video tapes and magazines. Little by little my escalation grew up with […]
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These are pages from The Brain That Changes Itself: More on Schwartz’s techniques from his own website: http://www.hope4ocd.com/foursteps.php Also see – Exposure Therapy for HOCD? Porn-related HOCD may call for its own treatment protocol […]
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“You must have long range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short range failures.” — Charles C. Noble
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[History of my PIED, 2022] Im 25 years old and i watched porn since my teens like many of us here. It escalated over the years into hardcore fetishes (femdom). In the end this was the only thing i could get an erection. In my life i had so far 3 attempts to have sex […]
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New here, been lurking for the last few months, and today I am 90 days free from PMO. I wanted to share my story, and hopefully give other people hope, much like the hundreds of posts I’ve read myself that helped me through this. Sorry for a long post. I’m 33 years old, male, and […]
Read More… from Age 33 – DE, addiction, overcame a monster that had grown inside me for years
What you really need to know about Johann Hari’s claims UPDATE 2022: Quantitative research shows that perceived social support has limited predictive power as a factor against problematic sexual behavior. It’s helpful, but not a silver bullet. See The relation of perceived social support to compulsive sexual behavior. If you are struggling with an addiction, by […]
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