I’ve been fapping since I was about 13, I’m 20 now. But I was diagnosed with OCD when I was 16, and now it’s gone. Completely gone. The biggest thing now is I’m no longer “inside my head” worrying all day and night. It’s almost like I’m seeing the world for the first time. I […]
I started off like many of you (presumably), seen as introverted, lack of style, or overall poor aesthetics. A kissless virgin, and a bitter depressed cynical narcissist. Oh.. And of course a ragging fapping addict since I was 14. I knew something had to change or I was doomed to suffer a sad and lonely […]
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I’m 36 years old with around 20 years of use, so sure, I had some improvements but I’d probably need a couple of years to clean most of the past bad habits. So the first lesson here is, especially for younger people, don’t delay the recovery anymore, later is worse. To the point, what I […]
Today is the day that I have finally made it past 30 days. I started attempting to change my PMO habit in high school (I am 24 now) and never could get past one month for the first a few years of trying to quit. I was truly addicted to porn and I was not […]
Read More… from Age 24 – It seriously is like night and day! I was stuck in the dark cave
J Exp Anal Behav. 2012 Jan;97(1):125-46. doi: 10.1901/jeab.2012.97-125. Salamone JD1, Correa M, Nunes EJ, Randall PA, Pardo M. Abstract For many years, it has been suggested that drugs that interfere with dopamine (DA) transmission alter the “rewarding” impact of primary reinforcers such as food. Research and theory related to the functions of mesolimbic DA are […]
Neuropharmacology. 2013 Oct;73:274-83. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2013.06.004. Epub 2013 Jun 14. Skibicka KP1, Shirazi RH, Rabasa-Papio C, Alvarez-Crespo M, Neuber C, Vogel H, Dickson SL. Abstract Obesity has reached global epidemic proportions and creating an urgent need to understand mechanisms underlying excessive and uncontrolled food intake. Ghrelin, the only known circulating orexigenic hormone, potently increases food reward […]
Neurosci Biobehav Rev. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2014 Nov 1. Published in final edited form as: Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2013 Nov; 37(0): 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2013.03.019. Published online 2013 Apr 5. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2013.03.019 PMCID: PMC3830626 NIHMSID: NIHMS464960 Matthew E. Andrzejewski,1 Brenda L. McKee,2 Anne E. Baldwin,3 Lindsay Burns,4 and Pepe Hernandez4 Author information ► Copyright and License […]
I realized I needed a reboot when I got with my new girlfriend after a looong time without sexual contact with someone and escalating porn use/tastes. After many embarrassing encounters of ED I decided to hit google and figure out why I was having this problem. Came across this site and the YBOP site too […]
Read More… from ED & Fetishes: Crazy Journey but Success is Pure Serenity!
Today is day 90 of what I’m calling harder mode (hard mode with zero wet dreams, while married). You can read the bullets for the advice, and the following if you want some back story. I’m 27 years old, been married for 6 years, have struggled with PMO since middle school. I wasted a large […]
April 23, 2015 | by Josh L Davis The basis for homosexual behavior has frequently—and often hotly—been debated. Is it nature? Nurture? A combination of both? Researchers from the Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico, have thrown their hat into the ring. They have been able to show that conditioned homosexual preference in male rats can be induced by oxytocin and […]
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