I’m 24. Lots of benefits. PE 100% gone. I’ve gone from ~30 seconds to about 3-4 minutes. Still not exactly where I want to be, but definitely an improvement. I’m taking this as a process. I did have one experience where I had a BJ that lasted 10+ minutes. Remember that the average guy lasts […]
Read More… from Age 24 – PE improving, deeper emotions, more confident
I am 34 and have been using porn about 4-5 times a week for about 20-30 minutes per time since I was about 15. The frequency never really increased that much but the impact it was making on my brain and outlook definitely increased over time. The dysfunction increased over time for sure even though […]
LINK TO FULL STUDY Veruska Andrea Santos1*, MSc ; Rafael Freire1*, MD, PhD ; Morená Zugliani1*, MD ; Patricia Cirillo1*, MD ; Hugo Henrique Santos2 ; Antonio Egidio Nardi1*, MD, PhD ; Anna Lucia King1*, PhD 1Laboratory of Panic and Respiration, Institute of Psychiatry of The Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (IPUB/UFRJ), Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio […]
One-two months ago I realised that I can’t get it up without porn, so I decided to fix that. One of the things I have learned through experience is “research before doing anything”, so I started reading articles about lifestyle, exercising, sexuality, healthcare and more. I reformed my habits – started exercising, going out more, […]
Read More… from Age 22 – 4 weeks and my PIED has improved to 85-90%
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, […]
Read More… from Internet Addiction, Hikikomori Syndrome, and the Prodromal Phase of Psychosis (2016)
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 […]
Read More… from The cerebellum on cocaine: plasticity and metaplasticity (2015)
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 […]