The higher your streak, the better you get. This is the truth I experienced through this amazing journey. It’s like a snowball effect. As the days pass by, the benefits gets bigger and bigger. oFap won’t make you a Superman in one day. You still gotta strive hard. It makes all the hard work easy […]
Drug Alcohol Depend. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2015 Dec 1. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2014 Dec 1; 145: 77–86. Published online 2014 Nov 4. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2014.09.013 PMCID: PMC4266109 NIHMSID: NIHMS640482 Patrick D. Worhunsky,a,b Robert T. Malison,a Robert D. Rogers,b,c,1 and Marc N. Potenzaa,d,e,1,* Abstract Background Individuals with gambling or substance-use disorders exhibit similar functional alterations […]
Front Behav Neurosci. 2014; 8: 83. Published online 2014 Mar 25. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00083 PMCID: PMC3971166 Yansong Li,1,2,* Guillaume Sescousse,1,† and Jean-Claude Dreher1,2 Abstract Pathological gambling is a behavioral addiction characterized by a chronic failure to resist the urge to gamble. It shares many similarities with drug addiction. Glucocorticoid hormones including cortisol are thought to play […]
I’m 25, and I used porn for close to 10 years. A lot of what got me to give this a try was l had just had a discussion with a friend of mine about my teenage years. I attributed a lot of it to a strong sex drive, but realized I had lost that […]
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I’m 23 and started Nofap 2 years ago, although it took me the first full year to finally stop making excuses—I would relapse at every turn because I’d find ways to justify doing so. I’d even be looking at porn and thinking “it’s alright, I didn’t fap so my streak is still intact, it’s all […]
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April 11, 2017 by David Orenstein A heartbreaking phenomenon of addiction is that just a brief stressful episode can trigger relapse. In a detailed new cocaine addiction study conducted in rat models, which closely parallel human addictive behavior, scientists have identified what appears to be taking place in the mammalian brain to make that happen […]
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Front Psychiatry. 2014; 5: 170. Published online 2014 Dec 8. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2014.00170 PMCID: PMC4258993 Laurence Lalanne,1,2,† Gulebru Ayranci,1,3,† Brigitte L. Kieffer,3 and Pierre-Eric Lutz3,* Abstract Comorbidity is a major issue in psychiatry that notably associates with more severe symptoms, longer illness duration, and higher service utilization. Therefore, identifying key clusters of comorbidity and exploring the […]
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Neuropsychiatr Dis Treat. 2017; 13: 51–60. Published online 2016 Dec 23. doi: 10.2147/NDT.S118818 PMCID: PMC5207471 Gabriel C Quintero Abstract The present review is an overview of previous experimental work on biopsychological aspects of gambling disorder. It includes the topics 1) gambling disorder from the neuroimaging and electroencephalography (EEG) perspective, 2) cognitive, executive functioning, and neuropsychological […]
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Fast forward to today these are my achievements. Please note, at the end of my streak, completion of 90 days, I am aiming to do a well defined professional upload of my whole journey and benefits look out for it called ( You will stop porn if you sink this in). – Completed my masters […]
First of all, sorry for my English skills, but I will try to use the energy of nofap to express myself correctly. So, I’m 23 years old, I’m from Algeria, I discovered masturbation I think since 9 years something like that, and I was addict to it, it was an escape from reality for me […]