I am a 20 yo European dude, 3rd year at university. This is my NoFap story, which started 9 months ago. Story 11 months ago I was lost. I started questioning my life and life in general, went searching for meaning in life and why my life was the way it was. I felt like […]
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For me NoFap was life changing experience. I was shy and easily embarrassed because I used to sit in my home on computer watching porn and masturbating and NoFap gave my energy and motivation to change my life. I started to going out more, hanging out with friends, started working out, today I’m going on […]
Front Behav Neurosci. 2016 Jul 14;10:144. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2016.00144. eCollection 2016. du Hoffmann J1, Nicola SM1. Abstract Dopamine receptor activation in the nucleus accumbens (NAc) promotes vigorous environmentally-cued food-seeking in hungry rats. Rats fed ad libitum, however, respond to fewer food-predictive cues, particularly when the value of food reward is low. Here, we investigated whether this […]
As the late Douglas Adams wrote:
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
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About ten months ago I made the decision to pursue the NoFap challenge on Hard Mode for three months (or 90 days, for a nice round number) and now I fulfill this goal, having struggled for years to combat PMO. I really don’t feel like I’ve achieved much at all – I mean, there’s more […]
Before I discovered nofap and pornfree was banging it multiple times at day, was really tired. Sometime MO multiple times in the day, then sex, and then still not happy another MO… I had to watch porn as soon I had some free time or felt slightly bored. And clearly I masturbated to it every […]
Indian J Psychiatry. 2016 Jan-Mar; 58(1): 6–11. doi: 10.4103/0019-5545.174354 PMCID: PMC4776584 P. K. Dalal and Debasish Basu1 “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” -Albert Einstein Go to: THE BEGINNING In 1995, when the New York based psychiatrist Dr. Ivan Goldberg posted a sincere-looking but satirical note on the online psychiatric […]
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I am surprised that I made it this far. This being my first time and all. I started this path to cure my PIED and get my libido up but got a lot more through it all. Good: Urges have diminished quite dramatically over the past several weeks. My hardest period I would argue was […]
PMO History: I was regular in PMO and sexting with increasing frequency everyday of up to 4 times a day. Discovered PMO at the age of 16 and now 31. The genre of porn was escalating to a higher level. No more attraction to females. All I wanted to do is have sex with every […]
Neuropharmacology. 2016 Aug;107:122-30. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2016.03.002 Pitchers KK1, Di Sebastiano AR2, Coolen LM3. Abstract Natural rewards and psychostimulants cause similar neural plasticity in the nucleus accumbens (NAc). In addition, sexual experience in male rats causes increased locomotor activity and conditioned place preference (CPP) induced by d-Amphetamine (amph). The latter is dependent on a period of abstinence […]