Here, I will simply paste in the 5 most important lessons I learned from that post. If you’d like, go back and read my full story. First, NoFap is only the beginning of a tough, but exciting, journey of self change. NoFap may seem like the hardest thing, but when you take more risks and […]
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OH THE ENERGY. I feel like a kid again with a limitless supply of cognitive and physical energy, it’s unbelievable. Today I cooked, read, ran a trail, played volleyball, swam, played games with my little siblings, then cleaned the entire house for 4 HOURS until it was past midnight. It’s hard to believe that it […]
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I’m on a 24 day streak and since day 6 I’ve been getting really vivid dreams every night for the first time in like 10 years. For the first time in 10 years I don’t feel any sleepy during the day and I wake up feeling really refreshed every morning. This benefit kicked in at […]
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Tried NoFap but realised porn is the real problem. Stopped viewing it and it has been 4 weeks. Longest so far in the last 14 years of viewing frequent porn. I always watched gay porn but I begin to realise that my brain just liked the kinkiness of it all. Now I feel a bit […]
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Translated from Malaysian Hubs-Asia 9, no. 2 (2010). Euis Supriati, Sandra Fikawati Abstract Adolescent is a vulnerable group in reproductive health area. This period is marked by strong desire to try and explore new things. Pornography is a medium which can influence adolescent toward high risk sexual behaviour. The exposure to pornographic materials is a […]
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COMMENTS: From the introduction, it seemed as though the study set out to prove that “perception of pornography” determines whether porn is a problem for the user – as opposed to levels of porn use. Contrary to their hypothesis, greater porn use was correlated with higher levels of depression, even after controlling for all sorts […]
Read More… from Understanding Associations between Personal Definitions of Pornography, Using Pornography, and Depression (2018)
Woohoo! Thank you guys! This forum has been extremely helpful for me. I don’t think I could have ever done it without you. First of all, this is not the first time I quit my porn addiction. I have done it before for about two years without NoFap, and it was a very fruitful period […]
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It was over two years ago when I first discovered Nofap. My best friend and I, in our last year of flight school, had just finished up a series of oddjobs in the city to get some extra booze money. It was late and it was a school night, and we had a two hour […]
Read More… from Age 23 – I finally enjoy going to work
From a PMO, weed, drugs, cigarettes, paid sex addict to become a clean person now in just 4 months has been a great achievement from me. Perhaps, I have sunken down so low that the only way to go was up. And the past has been a great lesson for me to realize how brainwashed […]
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Hey all, after finally reaching 90 days without watching porn I thought I would share what I experienced. The Good: Slightly improved focus and desire to do/complete tasks Increased discipline The ability to be more turned on by vanilla stuff Far less feelings of guilt or shame Decreasingly seeing women as sex objects It’s easier […]
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