Hi all, I am Gaink, 29 years old, newly married man with ED problem. Been silent reader for the past 6 month and now want to share my positive progress to overcome my ED problem. Sorry for my bad english because not my first language. Background of me: Since around 15, I knew porn and […]
Just a quick story for all who may need inspiration or proof of changes! Went to a party last night, walked in with a goofy friendly look on my face and instantly started hugging girls, bro handshakes with guys, starting conversations, laughing, having a great time. After about 10ish minutes of conversing, I went to […]
Front Psychiatry. 2018 Apr 23;9:154. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00154. eCollection 2018. Liu L1,2, Yao YW2, Li CR3,4, Zhang JT2, Xia CC5, Lan J1, Ma SS1, Zhou N1, Fang XY1. Abstract Internet gaming disorder (IGD) is characterized by cognitive and emotional deficits. Previous studies have reported the co-occurrence of IGD and depression. However, extant brain imaging research has […]
This is a post I dreamt of making ever since I began on my nofap journey. It’s been hard, very hard and has been one of the hardest challenges of my life. This is going to be a slightly long post so I request you all to be patient as you read.. trust me it […]
99 percent of you won’t remember my first post on nofap, so I thought I would list a couple of the highlights if you want to go back and revisit it. I’m 28 and 500,000 in debt. Student loans. I flunked out of medical school. I failed summer of 2015. I was sleeping 12-16 hours […]
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It’s been a long ride, with long periods of really struggling with trying to stop PMO, and long periods of saying “fuck this” and PMOing multiple times a day (all of 2017). Let’s dive right into what finally allowed me to be PMO free – Keeping a PMO Journal. The idea started off when I […]
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Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2018 Apr; 15(4): 788. Published online 2018 Apr 18. doi: 10.3390/ijerph15040788 PMCID: PMC5923830 PMID: 29670025 Wei-Po Chou,1,2 Cheng-Fang Yen,1,3,* and Tai-Ling Liu1,3,* Abstract The aims of this study were to evaluate the predicting effects of psychological inflexibility/experiential avoidance (PI/EA) and stress coping strategies for Internet addiction, significant depression and […]
Peper, Erik, and Richard Harvey. NeuroRegulation 5, no. 1 (2018): 3. Abstract Digital addiction is defined by the American Society for Addiction Medicine (ASAM) as well as the American Psychiatric Association (APA) as “… a primary, chronic disease of brain reward, motivation, memory, and related circuitry. Dysfunction in these circuits leads to characteristic biological, psychological, […]
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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0195742 Abstract The use of online-communication applications including messengers (e.g. WhatsApp) or social networking services (e.g. Facebook) on the smartphone has turned into daily practice for billions of people, for example during waiting times. An increasing number of individuals show diminished control over their usage of these applications despite negative consequences in everyday life. This […]
Curr Biol. 2018 Apr 12. pii: S0960-9822(18)30353-1. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.03.024. [Epub ahead of print] Kamiński J1, Mamelak AN2, Birch K2, Mosher CP2, Tagliati M3, Rutishauser U4. Abstract The encoding of information into long-term declarative memory is facilitated by dopamine. This process depends on hippocampal novelty signals, but it remains unknown how midbrain dopaminergic neurons are […]