Chin J Integr Med. 2017 Sep 1. doi: 10.1007/s11655-017-2765-5. Yang Y1, Li H2, Chen XX1, Zhang LM1, Huang BJ1, Zhu TM3. Abstract OBJECTIVE: To observe the impacts of electro-acupuncture (EA) and psychological intervention (PI) on impulsive behavior among internet addiction (IA) adolescents. METHODS: Thirty-two IA adolescents were allocated to either EA (16 cases) or PI […]
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24 y/o. Fucking living for all this damn confidence NoFap gives ya. Seriously. As a guy who got so anxious (socially and generally) needed medication and shit. So the fact that by quitting my PMO addiction I were literally able to heal & get rid off my anxiety and depression is almost gone too, now […]
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Brain Behav. 2017 Aug; 7(8): e00753. Published online 2017 Jun 21. doi: 10.1002/brb3.753 PMCID: PMC5561314 Xin Du, 1 , † Linlin Liu, 1 , † Yongxin Yang, 2 , † Xin Qi, 1 Peihong Gao, 3 Yang Zhang, 1 Jiyu Zhu, 3 Guijin Du, 3 Shouping Dai, 3 Xiaodong Li, 3 and Quan Zhang 1 […]
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I am a very physically healthy 20 year-old who has been been negatively affected by porn and masturbation for a very long time. My story begins at the young age of 8 when I began to realize that touching myself would release positive sensations in my body. I would masturbate to orgasm without porn at […]
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Because this is my very first time hitting 90 days, I wanted to make a post and a special shout out to the community here for all the support, motivation, and stories shared. I’d like to start by setting some parameters: Was NOT fapping hardcore but still PMO’ing. Before starting the 90 day nofap – […]
Read More… from Age 28 – I’m crushing it at work, I’m stable, less angry, hair is thicker, lost my fear of public speaking
I started with my first nofap experiment 3,5 years ago. I just broke up with my girlfriend, I watched too much porn in the relationship and I ran away from my problems through porn and masturbation. I was so addicted to porn that I chose porn over sex, yes I know…“Thomas, I’m not addicted to […]
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The changes in my life I have experienced for the last month since I started nofap has been fucking insane. The most notable changes I’ve experienced are: I no longer get nervous, or anxious when talking to women. The amount of looks, stares, and cold approaches I get from women has increased ten fold. My […]
Read More… from Age 18 – Thought this was broscience, but holy shit was I wrong.
Fapped at least once a day since the age of 13, always to porn. Never even realised I had a problem until I stumbled upon this subreddit. I started noticing the changes in myself very quickly after beginning. Felt more motivated and ambitious, had more energy, lost the brain fog. Hit the flatline (which was […]
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Mol Cells. 2017 Jun 30; 40(6): 379–385. Published online 2017 Jul 12. doi: 10.14348/molcells.2017.0088 PMCID: PMC5523013 Hyun Jin Kim, Joo Han Lee, Kyunghwa Yun, and Joung-Hun Kim* Abstract Drug addiction is a severe psychiatric disorder characterized by the compulsive pursuit of drugs of abuse despite potential adverse consequences. Although several decades of studies have revealed […]
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2.5 years ago, when I found out I cannot get an erection despite having a hot naked girl in front of me, I read several posts on this forum, learnt what to do and then just executed on this. I want to write this post to help other people, because I do know how desperate […]
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