As it has been exactly a year I would like to share my inner thoughts about this addiction as it hopefully might be helpful to someone out there. Cause we are all here to help each other, right? Long story short, I wanted to change something in my life after the break-up with a two-year […]
Read More… from First year has been a roller coaster ride
As for the changes in my life, while I was in my 7 year relationship with my ex, she would get extremely jealous if I so much just interacted with a girl. So I almost made no girlfriends at that time. I’ll be honest and say that I regret it in a way and has […]
Read More… from On NoFap for a while. Seeing a HUUUUGE difference in life.
I realised latly that being in charge of your sexual energy is one of the or even most important thing in life we need learn how to control it. I decided that I want to write about my experience, because it is very important for guys to know how they can decrease quality of their […]
Read More… from Age 21 – Improved concentration, higher self-confidence, girls notice me more
I feel incredibly positively one month in and my desire for my girlfriend (long distance relationship) has sky rocketed also, I was already incredible attracted towards her but now…. wow. I’m not talking sexuality only, I’m talking connection, that deep connection two people share. I wanna get to know this world more. 27 years old, […]
Read More… from Age 27 – So much energy!
I was never one of these guys who had social anxiety. I could get any girl I wanted, it was easy and the whole scene bored me very quickly. I didn’t give a fuck and girls loved me for it (genuinely)…. but there was always something missing. As I am sure every single guy in […]
Read More… from Age 21 – PIED cured. I am a new man, in many ways.
I started Nofap in hopes of improving my social anxiety. It wasn’t until a couple weeks down the line that I realized that I didn’t just have social anxiety. I had anxiety alone. It was then that I realized that anxiety isn’t compartmentalized. If you have anxiety in social situations, it’s likely that you have […]
Read More… from Age 20s – I look people in the eye. My voice seems deeper. I feel still and calm during silences. I feel respected.
Fran Lowry |December 15, 2015 HUNTINGTON BEACH, California ― The interaction of two appetite hormones, leptin and ghrelin, may prove key to developing new drugs to treat alcohol use disorder (AUD), a new study suggests. Evidence supports the role of appetite-regulating pathways in addictions, including AUD. Ghrelin, a peptide produced by the stomach, and leptin, another feeding-related […]
Read More… from (L) Appetite Regulating Hormones May Block Alcohol Cravings (2015)
COMMENTS: This Korean fMRI study replicates other brain studies on porn users. Like the Cambridge University studies it found cue-induced brain activation patterns in sex addicts which mirrored the patterns of drug addicts. In line with several German studies it found alterations in the prefrontal cortex which match the changes observed in drug addicts. While […]
Read More… from Neural Substrates of Sexual Desire in Individuals with Problematic Hypersexual Behavior (2015)
100 Days! (2nd time around!)- what have I learned? 10 Principles of Recovery Below are several principles that have been in place for me currently and during my longest periods of abstinence. For those times when we get lost in the forest, and we need to find our way, use these principles (or those that […]
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I started PMOing at the age of 15 (I’m now 18), and did it around 10 times a week for 3 years. Last spring (around 8 months ago), without knowing about this sub, I began to try and cut back in order to be more easily aroused for my then-girlfriend. Soon after, I discovered NoFap. […]
Read More… from Age 18 – Was awkward, low confidence dude: I’m now outgoing, socially fearless, especially around females.