I’m 40, married to a smoking hot woman, we have two kids. For the last year my wife and I have been having serious marital issues. Sex was infrequent and fairly passionless. Two months ago I discovered she was having an online emotional/sexual affair with a facebook friend, and it sent my universe into a […]
Read More… from Age 40 – Married: 60 day report – hard mode, and I’m evolving at a fast rate
Hi people, This is gonna be a long story. I just logged in on Facebook and saw Reddit come by, and thought, hey, I haven’t been there for a while and decided to take a look here. I deleted my account because since the 13th of October, I know I’m clean for life and after […]
Read More… from Age 22 – Finally beat HOCD and anxiety. I faced the fears.
On top of the many reasons to hit the gym, working out may also improve the ability to persevere through hard times. In a series of recent experiments, neuroscientists at the University of Georgia have begun to unravel the link between long-term stress resilience and exercise. The study, published in the February edition of the […]
Front Behav Neurosci. 2014 May 30;8:196. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00196. eCollection 2014. Crystal A. Clark and Alain Dagher* Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► This article has been cited by other articles in PMC. Go to: Abstract An influential model suggests that dopamine signals the difference between predicted and experienced reward. In […]
I successfully made it to 90 days normal mode. I’m pretty proud of myself, the journey has been worth the effort. But on the other hand I expected it would be something different. It’s a bitter-sweet victory for me. The story I remember how my friend told me about masturbation when I was 12 – […]
Read More… from Age 30 – Journey has been worth the effort (married)
I’ve completed 70 days of Celibacy, No Sex, Porn, Masturbation, and Dating. I’d like to share what I’ve learnt during my journey I’ve failed in the 90 day celibacy challenge for over 3 years now. I could never make it past 7-15 days. But for the first time I made it till Day 72. Here […]
Read More… from Age 26 – ED healed. Confidence improved, Higher productivity, Easily concentrate
J Neurophysiol. 1998 Jul;80(1):1-27. Schultz W1. Abstract The effects of lesions, receptor blocking, electrical self-stimulation, and drugs of abuse suggest that midbrain dopamine systems are involved in processing reward information and learning approach behavior. Most dopamine neurons show phasic activations after primary liquid and food rewards and conditioned, reward-predicting visual and auditory stimuli. They show […]
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Front Cell Neurosci. 2015 Jan 20;8:466. doi: 10.3389/fncel.2014.00466. eCollection 2014. van Huijstee AN1, Mansvelder HD1. Abstract Addictive drugs remodel the brain’s reward circuitry, the mesocorticolimbic dopamine (DA) system, by inducing widespread adaptations of glutamatergic synapses. This drug-induced synaptic plasticity is thought to contribute to both the development and the persistence of addiction. This review highlights […]
It was a year ago that I first joined this site. Little did I know how much my life would change in one year. Here’s what happened in bullet points: -Joined a year ago to quit porn. -Got dumped by my ex two weeks later after being together for 3 and a half years -Smoked […]
Read More… from Age 20 – I can honestly say that I was a COMPLETELY different person a year ago
Erica M. Schulte, Nicole M. Avena, Ashley N. Gearhardt Published: February 18, 2015 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0117959 Abstract Objectives We propose that highly processed foods share pharmacokinetic properties (e.g. concentrated dose, rapid rate of absorption) with drugs of abuse, due to the addition of fat and/or refined carbohydrates and the rapid rate the refined carbohydrates are absorbed […]