BEFORE: I have suffered so much in my life, for over 3 decades of dysfunctional relationships, a stressed/dead marriage with lousy sex (mostly cause of me) ED, porn addiction and sex addiction. Intermixed with all that is anxiety and often panic and lots of anger and blame. My path is littered with self-help books, different […]
Read More… from Age 52 – Porn-induced ED gone, addiction and fantasy almost nil – after 35 years
I am proud to say I have gone 50 days without shooting a load, not even a wet dream. I don’t even feel horny anymore (but I’m not flatlining) and I think I know why….. I have thrown myself into my music. I am already an OK pianist, but since January I have been pushing […]
Read More… from Age 34 – I’m now 100% confident in social situations, and find that I don’t care what people think of me
Hello fellows, This is my 2nd 90 day report. My longest streak was 127 days. My current streak is my second longest. My third longest was 58 days and then I had several 3 or 4 week streaks since I started with nofap maybe 2 years ago. Generally I can say that I like nofap […]
Read More… from 2nd 90 day report: The benefits seem to come in waves.
So yesterday I broke a nine week no-porn streak. I’m going through a bunch of shit right now, and I reasoned that watching porn would free up some willpower for other challenges. I can’t honestly say it was a bad decision to have made, but I’m looking forward to starting my next streak soon. BENEFITS: […]
Read More… from 9 weeks – Depression is hugely improved, Porn was sapping me of my willpower
I had almost forgotten the period of my life where I struggled with masturbation and porn. It was so long ago. But I did have a problem – and I beat it. So, I thought I would share the story and the wonderful things that came from giving up. Throw back two years – when […]
Read More… from Age 40s – Two years later…. No ED. Married with little baby
Khemiri, Lotfi et al. European Neuropsychopharmacology Lotfi Khemiri, Pia Steensland, Joar Guterstam, Olof Beck, Arvid Carlsson, Johan Franck, Nitya Jayaram-Lindström DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.euroneuro.2015.09.018 Article Outline 1. Introduction 2. Experimental Procedures 2.1. Participants 2.2. Study Design 2.3. Alcohol Craving Test Sessions 2.4. Clinical measures 2.5. Behavioral task of impulsivity 2.6. Statistical Analysis 3. Results 3.1. Participants 3.2. […]
Read More… from The Effects of the Monoamine Stabilizer (-)-OSU6162 on Craving in Alcohol Dependent Individuals: A Human Laboratory Study (2015)
Kristin Feltmann1,†, Ida Fredriksson1,†, Malin Wirf1, Björn Schilström2,3 and Pia Steensland1,* Article first published online: 14 OCT 2015 DOI: 10.1111/adb.12304 Abstract We recently established that the monoamine stabilizer (−)-OSU6162 (OSU6162) decreased voluntary alcohol-mediated behaviors, including alcohol intake and cue/priming-induced reinstatement, in long-term drinking rats, while blunting alcohol-induced dopamine output in the nucleus accumbens (NAc) of alcohol-naïve […]
Read More… from The monoamine stabilizer (−)-OSU6162 counteracts downregulated dopamine output in the nucleus accumbens of long-term drinking Wistar rats (2015)
I remember when I first got internet porn and thinking, “Oh shit, this is awesome!!” I was totally oblivious to the fact that it would have been much healthier to reign in the fapping and go out and try and get a girlfriend, or at least be doing something more productive like reading, writing, learning […]
Read More… from Age 22 – PIED resolved: Motivation is up, Focus is excellent, Sleep has improved
LINK James P. Herman, Ph.D., is a professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio. Stress is a critical component in the development, maintenance, and reinstatement of addictive behaviors, including alcohol use. This article reviews the current state of the literature on the brain’s stress response, focusing on the […]
Read More… from Neural Pathways of Stress Integration: Relevance to Alcohol Abuse, James P. Herman, Ph.D.
The Darkness Within Individual Differences in Stress Wednesday, April 01, 2015 By: George F. Koob, Ph.D. Editor’s Note: Numerous factors make us react to situations differently: age, gender, education, relationships, socioeconomic status, environment, cultural background, life experience. But as our author describes, biological bases, such as the way genetics and neurochemicals affect our brains, are […]
Read More… from The Darkness Within Individual Differences in Stress (2015), George F. Koob, Ph.D.