I’m 40 years old, married, addicted to PMO since I was in my teens. My addiction had progressed to such insane levels that I was spending an inordinate amount of brain power in concealing it from family and friends. I did a 30 day report here and wanted to add a few things as I […]
Read More… from Age 40 – If you are young and wondering if you need NoFap, the answer is yes
Last night I had successful sex! I met a girl yesterday and we hit it off and went out last night. Went back to her place. Stayed hard pretty much the whole time!! Ahhhhh so happy!!! Only problem was I had quite a bit of alcohol and couldn’t cum I think because of that, but […]
Read More… from Age 28 – PIED: Finally had successful sex after many years!
Lately I feel like I’ve seen a lot of depressing posts on nofap. People post that they relapsed, want someone to make them feel better, or they’re depressed because they are having a hard time quitting PMO and are struggling. I’m tired of all the weak shit. It’s not just some of you out there, […]
Read More… from Age 22 – Some things you have to realize if you want to succeed
Mov Disord. 2011 Feb 1;26(2):225-33. doi: 10.1002/mds.23480. Epub 2011 Jan 31. Cilia R1, Cho SS, van Eimeren T, Marotta G, Siri C, Ko JH, Pellecchia G, Pezzoli G, Antonini A, Strafella AP. Abstract BACKGROUND: Pathological gambling may occur in Parkinson’s disease (PD) as a complication of dopaminergic therapy. Neuroimaging studies have suggested an abnormal dopamine transmission within the reward system, but the changes in the […]
Neuropsychopharmacology. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2010 Dec 1. Published in final edited form as: Neuropsychopharmacology. 2009 Dec; 34(13): 2758–2766. Published online 2009 Sep 9. doi: 10.1038/sj.npp.npp2009124 PMCID: PMC2972251 CAMSID: CAMS1534 Thilo van Eimeren,1,2,3 Bénédicte Ballanger,1,3 Giovanna Pellecchia,1,3 Janis M Miyasaki,2Anthony E Lang,2 and Antonio P Strafella1,2,3,* Author information ► Copyright and License information ► The publisher’s final edited version of this article is available free […]
Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2003 Aug;60(8):828-36. Potenza MN1, Steinberg MA, Skudlarski P, Fulbright RK, Lacadie CM, Wilber MK, Rounsaville BJ, Gore JC, Wexler BE. Abstract BACKGROUND: Gambling urges in pathological gambling (PG) often immediately precede engagement in self-destructivegambling behavior. An improved understanding of the neural correlates of gambling urges in PG would advance our understanding of the brain mechanisms underlying PG and would help direct research into effective treatments. METHODS: Echoplanar functional magnetic resonance […]
Am J Psychiatry. 2003 Nov;160(11):1990-4. Potenza MN1, Leung HC, Blumberg HP, Peterson BS, Fulbright RK, Lacadie CM, Skudlarski P, Gore JC. Abstract OBJECTIVE: Function of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex has been implicated in impulse control. The authors used the Stroop paradigm to test attention and response inhibition during the presentation of congruent and incongruent stimuli in male pathological gamblers and a group of […]
Mom’s weight during pregnancy shapes baby’s health By Laura Beil 1:00pm, January 12, 2016 Obesity at conception or during pregnancy is a big problem that’s getting bigger: New evidence says a child’s mental health could be at stake. Magazine issue: Vol. 189, No. 2, January 23, 2016, p. 22 When Elinor Sullivan was a postdoctoral fellow […]
At the age of 7, I was playing at my friends house and we decided to go out to his father’s truck. In the truck we found a porn magazine. I don’t remember thinking that much about it at the time. But at a later opportunity we took the magazine with us and started reading. […]
Read More… from Age 32 – A decade of addiction and two years of recovery. A happy ending.
I am very happy I found this subreddit. This is a unique online community in that it is the only online quasi social network on the internet (that I know of) committed to fostering the development of true core values in its members rather than falsely inflating egos through external value systems (up-votes, false praise, […]