I’ve been lurking nofap for over 2 years now, and I guess, after checking my counter, and thinking about how much nofap has changed my life, I owe it to this community to let you guys know what it’s done for me and what it has the potential to do for you. I’m 22 years […]
Read More… from Age 22 – Porn screwed me up and quitting made my life better than ever
Some background: 44 years of age, male, long-term porn user (magazines >> VHS tapes >> internet); dozens of efforts to quit (even back at the magazine stage); recent onset of PIED. Longest previous record was 23 days. During the last 90 days: no porn, no masturbation, but sex with real women is allowed. So what […]
Read More… from Age 44 – PIED: Almost every other reason for quitting porn did not work
World J Radiol. 2016 Feb 28; 8(2): 210–225. Published online 2016 Feb 28. doi: 10.4329/wjr.v8.i2.210 PMCID: PMC4770183Gianna Sepede, Margherita Tavino, Rita Santacroce, Federica Fiori, Rosa Maria Salerno, and Massimo Di Giannantonio Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► Go to: Abstract AIM: To report the results of functional magnetic resonance […]
Read More… from Functional magnetic resonance imaging of internet addiction in young adults (2016)
Hypothesis & Theory ARTICLE Front. Psychiatry, 03 March 2016 | http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2016.00006 Emmanuel Stip1,2*, Alexis Thibault1, Alexis Beauchamp-Chatel1 and Steve Kisely3,4,5 1Département de Psychiatrie, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada 2Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal, Hôpital Notre-Dame, Montréal, QC, Canada 3School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia 4Department of Psychiatry, […]
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Addict Biol. 2015 Sep;20(5):941-55. doi: 10.1111/adb.12223. Vazquez-Sanroman D1, Leto K2,3, Cerezo-Garcia M4, Carbo-Gas M1, Sanchis-Segura C1, Carulli D2,3, Rossi F2,3, Miquel M1. Abstract Despite the fact that several data have supported the involvement of the cerebellum in the functional alterations observed after prolonged cocaine use, this brain structure has been traditionally ignored and excluded from […]
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Biol Psychiatry. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2015 Oct 1. Published in final edited form as: Biol Psychiatry. 2014 Oct 1; 76(7): 550–558. Published online 2014 Jan 8. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2013.12.014 PMCID: PMC4087093 NIHMSID: NIHMS564517 Rachel J. Donahue,1 John W. Muschamp,1 Scott J. Russo,2 Eric J. Nestler,2 and William A. Carlezon, Jr.1 Author information ► Copyright […]
J Neurosci. 2014 Mar 12; 34(11): 3878–3887. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1787-13.2014 PMCID: PMC3951691 Vincent Vialou,1,6,7,8 Rosemary C. Bagot,1 Michael E. Cahill,1 Deveroux Ferguson,1 Alfred J. Robison,2 David M. Dietz,3 Barbara Fallon,2 Michelle Mazei-Robison,2 Stacy M. Ku,1 Eileen Harrigan,1 Catherine A. Winstanley,4 Tej Joshi,1 Jian Feng,1 Olivier Berton,5 and Eric J. Nestler1 Author information ► Article notes ► […]
For months I’ve had control of my urges; whenever one comes up, I’ve been perfectly able of: (1) Recognising it as an impulse from/driving a need to Fap, rather than arousal and desire that may lead to a want to Fap. The key difference is knowing the difference between a want and a need. (2) […]
My usual relapse is around day 20-30. I think this period is where your brain is really kicking and screaming its last resistance before it starts adapting to a porn-free life. I’m 22 and it’s difficult to tell [which benefits are related to my 81 days of NoFap] because everything changed after I started to […]
Read More… from Age 22 – I don’t hesitate when talking to new people, especially girls
Here’s my three months of spiritual and physical progress due to NoFap. In retrospect, looking at myself three months earlier, I was a misery. I suffered from bouts of depression. I would get easily irritated and angered. I did not go outside to socialise at all. I was overweight suffering from eating disorder problem. I […]
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