I’m a 22 y/o male virgin and I’ve been nofap for four months. I’ve noticed this bizarre attraction of women towards me now. Short backstory on me – been pmo’ing since 12, hardcore since 16,lost drive to live and have sex. Never asked a girl out, afraid of rejection. Saw an article on NoFap and […]
Read More… from Age 22 – (HOCD) 4 Months of NoFap- social anxiety gone + Strange arousal from women?
Hello, I’m Fap free since 10 days now, and its just absolutely unbelievable how am changed as a person. I look people in the eyes when talking, I crave for social contacts, I am talking to girls, I get horny all day long, I FEEL ALIVE. I started fapping when I was 10 years old, […]
Read More… from Age 25 – NoFap cured my Asperger’s syndrome. Possible misdiagnosis?
Done and done. For me it boiled down to a couple realizations. First, the mind is like a garden. By extension, the mind must be treated like a garden. I’d always rejected positive thinking because I thought it was unnatural. But unnatural isn’t always bad–gardens don’t grow naturally, but they are more useful than jungle […]
There have been many great success stories on here and I thought I would create a throw away account to share my story with you all. I understand that not everyone has DE, delayed ejaculation, instead of ED. I thought I would bring some hope to people who have DE as there are not many […]
Read More… from How I beat 17 years of DE after 63 days of NoFap
Paul J. Cocker1, Katherine Dinelle2, Rick Kornelson2, Vesna Sossi2,3, and Catharine A. Winstanley1 Author contributions: V.S. and C.A.W. designed research; P.J.C., K.D., and R.K. performed research; P.J.C., K.D., and C.A.W. analyzed data; P.J.C. and C.A.W. wrote the paper. The Journal of Neuroscience, 31 October 2012, 32(44): 15450-15457; doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0626-12.2012 Next Section Abstract Individual differences […]
Today is my 60th day without pmo and i’m freaking happy about it. After countless relapses it was hard for me to believe that I could make it this far, so if you are feeling like that right now, don’t give up. Anyone can do this. What did I experience during these 60 days? The […]
Therapists can be a little confusing when it comes to assessing porn’s risks. Some would have us believe that only teens with inherent vulnerabilities become addicted, even though addiction research that shows that early exposure to supernormal stimulation, alone, increases the risk of addiction. In search of another point of view, I interviewed author Gary […]
Read More… from “Boys and Porn: A Moving Target” (Huffington Post)
J Behav Addict. 2014 Sep;3(3):157-65. doi: 10.1556/JBA.3.2014.013. VAN Rooij AJ1, Kuss DJ2, Griffiths MD3, Shorter GW4, Schoenmakers MT1, VAN DE Mheen D5. Abstract AIMS: The current study explored the nature of problematic (addictive) video gaming (PVG) and the association with game type, psychosocial health, and substance use. METHODS: Data were collected using a paper and […]
Comments: Cue activation as large as taking cocaine (dorsal striatum) Nora D. Volkow1, Gene-Jack Wang2, Frank Telang1, Joanna S. Fowler3, Jean Logan3, Anna-Rose Childress4, Millard Jayne1, Yeming Ma1, and Christopher Wong3 +Show Affiliations 26(24): 6583-6588; doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1544-06.2006 Next Section Abstract The ability of drugs of abuse to increase dopamine in nucleus accumbens underlies their reinforcing […]
Horm Behav. 2009 May;55(5):597-604. doi: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2009.03.010. Schulz KM1, Molenda-Figueira HA, Sisk CL. 1Department of Psychiatry and Developmental Psychobiology Program, University of Colorado, Denver Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA. [email protected] Abstract Phoenix, Goy, Gerall, and Young first proposed in 1959 the organizational-activational hypothesis of hormone-driven sex differences in brain and behavior. The original hypothesis […]