Hey! I wrote a longgggg article about overcoming porn addiction, and what you will go through during your journey, as well as a few tips and stuff. I am planning to post this on my website, just want to get some feedback from the community. I will also add photos later on. What do you […]
Today I made it to 90 days. I did not keep a counter on here, nor did I use this subreddit much as I progressed through my 90 day journey, but I made it to 90 days none the less. Now, I am not sure if what I am going to say has been said […]
Excerpt analyzing Prause et al., 2015 (which is citation 87) A study using EEG, conducted by Prause and colleagues, suggested that individuals who feel distressed about their pornography use, as compared to a control group who do not feel distress about their use of pornography, may require more/greater visual stimulation to evoke brain responses [87]. […]
…the day I stopped waiting for other people’s advice or tricks to be the magic bullet solution. I’m now just over 4.5 years sober from porn. I would have told you then that M/O was also an issue, but once the porn went away the M/O reduced by 98%. I was a porn addict. I […]
So today I hit 100 days on NoFap. It’s been 100 days ago since my last relapse from a 72 day streak. Yeah, it seems impossible, but in a half year, I only beat it once. And I’m not planning on going back anytime soon. Me before NoFap Before NoFap, I was a 21 year […]
Internet porn’s supernormal stimulation can blight women’s sex lives too A popular online Swedish news magazine recently reported that women are noticing their own version of “porn impotence,” (already reported in Swedish men). Says one woman, “I have wondered about the reason for my lack of interest in sex in-real-life. … I can definitely see […]
Subregions of the Anterior Cingulate Cortex Form Distinct Functional Connectivity Patterns in Young Males With Internet Gaming Disorder With Comorbid Depression (2018) Front Psychiatry. 2018 Aug 29;9:380. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00380. eCollection 2018. Lee D1,2, Lee J2, Namkoong K2,3, Jung YC2,3. Abstract Depression is one of the most common comorbid conditions in Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD). Although […]
Front Psychiatry. 2018; 9: 421. Published online 2018 Sep 7. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00421 PMCID: PMC6137619 PMID: 30245642 Limin Chen,1,† Hongliang Zhou,2,† Yue Gu,3 Shuai Wang,1 Jun Wang,1 Lin Tian,1 Hongmei Zhu,1 and Zhenhe Zhou1,* Abstract Internet addiction is a sort of non-psychoactive substance dependence. The Implicit Association Test (IAT) is used to measure implicit cognition. Event-related […]
So here I am. I’ve reached my longest streak after 3 years of trying. 90 days. – First of all my story in nutshell. I’m 22. Started watching porn at the age of 13. I watched it every day at least once until the age of of 15. After that I only watched 4-5 times […]
Read More… from Age 22 – The videos got kinkier and more frequent. I didn’t even enjoyed it anymore.
I haven’t been here for a while. But during my HOCD (that took like 5 years of my life) I used to seek for a words of support and hope and now I think I can bring some to you on my personal example. I think that somehow I owe you this. Anyway, when I was 23 something started to change, like it was hard for me to be turn on by girls in real life, only porn was still doing it for me. […]
Read More… from Age 28 – HOCD for years: it really helps if you quit this porn shit