Hey ladies and gents. I’m about 30 days in, but I wanted to make a post now instead of waiting a couple more days because there’s been some interesting events happen to me. I’ll break this up into two parts: Physical/Psychological Benefits and Odd Benefits. Note: As many fapstronauts have pointed out, physical/psychological benefits often […]
Lately, my life has been a complete turn around from what it was a little over a month ago. It took me lying to my girlfriend for months and her finding out about it to get me to finally grind out my longest streak ever (and still going strong!) Here’s a little background: I am […]
This is my post after a year of being clean of PMO. Let me tell u again my story. Until 1 year ago I was technically virgin. (Very low past sexual exp). I started PMO tactically from age 18-19 to 25. (First 2-3 years lower frequency). So. 1 year ago I tried to lose my […]
Brain Res. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2011 Sep 2. Brain Res. 2010 Sep 2; 1350: 43–64. Published online 2010 Apr 11. doi: 10.1016/j.brainres.2010.04.003 PMCID: PMC2913163 NIHMSID: NIHMS197191 Kent C. Berridge, Chao-Yi Ho, Jocelyn M. Richard, and Alexandra G. DiFeliceantonio Abstract What we eat, when and how much, all are influenced by brain reward mechanisms […]
Too few “what has changed since I started” threads and a lot of placebo for sure. I was not a porn addict and only masturbated once a day at most, nor did I ever feel guilty or disgusted by masturbation. It is completely in the open and accepted where I live. For this reason I […]
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-Having dreams. Before I didn’t have any dreams let alone vivid dreams but now I have dreams every time I sleep and they’re the most realistic ones I’ve ever dreamed (no pun intended) of having. -Recovering from depersonalisatio /derealisation (also known as brain fog). This is too complex to explain here but in a nutshell, […]
Addictive Behaviors Reports Available online 8 December 2016 Christian Laiera, , , Matthias Branda, b http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.abrep.2016.11.003 Highlights Investigation of mood and sexual arousal before and after self-determined Internet pornography use in private environment Watching pornography was associated to changes in mood and indicators of sexual arousal Mood before and after Internet pornography use as well […]
Magn Reson Imaging. 2016 Nov 26. pii: S0730-725X(16)30231-4. doi: 10.1016/j.mri.2016.11.018. Papageorgiou I1, Astrakas LG2, Xydis V1, Alexiou G3, Bargiotas P4, Tzarouchi L1, Zikou AK1, Kiortsis DN4, Argyropoulou MI1. Abstract PURPOSE: Increased Body-Mass-Index (BMI) has been associated with brain atrophy in both gray and white matter structures. However, little is known concerning the integrity of white […]
Neuroimage Clin. 2016 Nov 2;12:845-851. Qi X1, Yang Y2, Dai S3, Gao P3, Du X1, Zhang Y1, Du G3, Li X3, Zhang Q1. Highlights Evaluating effects of outcome on subsequent risk decision making in IGDs Negative feedback affects risk decision making related brain activity in IGDs. Altered response to negative feedback contributes to adverse decision […]
I made it 90 days without looking at ANY porn and without jerking off a single time (obviously I had a handful of wet dreams, most recently as two nights ago). If you told me a year ago or even 90 days ago that i would be able to accomplish this, I would have said […]