Age 27 – So much energy!

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, […]

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Age 20s – I look people in the eye. My voice seems deeper. I feel still and calm during silences. I feel respected.

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 […]

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(L) Appetite Regulating Hormones May Block Alcohol Cravings (2015)

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 […]

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Neural Substrates of Sexual Desire in Individuals with Problematic Hypersexual Behavior (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 […]

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10 Principles of Recovery

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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Age 18 – Was awkward, low confidence dude: I’m now outgoing, socially fearless, especially around females.

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. […]

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