I am 25yrs old, I started PMO at age 8,went from magazines to tv to videos then highspeed internet porn, then pretty much became a social outcast and made my room into my cave and asylum, pretty much a loner, depressed all time, just went straight from school to work and home never really wanted […]
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Front Behav Neurosci. 2014; 8: 297. Published online Aug 29, 2014. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00297 PMCID: PMC4148937 Yafang Zhang,1 Elizabeth J. Crofton,1 Dingge Li,1 Mary Kay Lobo,2 Xiuzhen Fan,1 Eric J. Nestler,3 and Thomas A. Green1,* Abstract Environmental enrichment produces protective addiction and depression phenotypes in rats. ΔFosB is a transcription factor that regulates reward in the […]
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22 /m from northern Norway. First off I want to thank this forum and all the amazing people contributing every day, you guys are truly great. This will be my first time posting because its time for me to give something back. I stumbled upon nofap in April. Back then I experienced ED problems with […]
Read More… from Age 22 – ED is cured: My erections are now diamond hard and long lasting,
7 Tips to Beat the Worst-Case Scenario of Porn Addiction (How I Overcame) Hello guys. Dominic here. I am going to give you 7 essential tips that I used to make a complete transformation of my life. Using these tips, I went from a loser, to a winner. I was masturbating 1-3 times a day, […]
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Appetite. 2012 Feb;58(1):303-12. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2011.10.014. Dimitropoulos A1, Tkach J, Ho A, Kennedy J. Abstract The goal of this research is to identify the neural response to rewarding food cues before and after eating in overweight/obese (OB) and normal-weight (NW) adults. Based on the previous literature, we expected greater differential activation to food cues vs. objects […]
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Pardon my language, but holy shit! I never thought I would come this far, and I owe a whole lot to NoFap (Apologies in advance for the huge wall of text inbound). It’s been a while since I’ve visited this subreddit, or reddit as a whole, for that matter, but I thought I’d drop by […]
Read More… from 10 months – I’m a much healthier person; physically, mentally, and spiritually.
“Started from the bottom now i’m here.” I started nofap at one of the darkest places of my life. After leaving a three year relationship with a girl I loved but grew apart from, i spiraled into a PMO vortex of self pity and loathing. I lost myself in my porn addiction. a brief self-summary: […]
Read More… from Age 26 – Increased self-esteem, confidence, motivation, sharper mind, random boners
Addict Behav. 2014 Sep 16;40C:137-143. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2014.09.010. Lin X1, Dong G2, Wang Q1, Du X3. Abstract Internet gaming addiction (IGA) is usually defined as the inability of an individual to control his/her use of the Internet with serious negative consequences. It is becoming a prevalent mental health concern around the world. To understand whether Internet […]
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Citation: Loh KK, Kanai R (2014) Higher Media Multi-Tasking Activity Is Associated with Smaller Gray-Matter Density in the Anterior Cingulate Cortex. PLoS ONE 9(9): e106698. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0106698 Abstract Media multitasking, or the concurrent consumption of multiple media forms, is increasingly prevalent in today’s society and has been associated with negative psychosocial and cognitive impacts. Individuals who […]
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I just wrote this advice into my own journal , but felt it might be worth sharing as a success story and advice too. This advice is really only suitable for married guys or guys in relationships with a SO. Last night was another wonderfully successful congress with Mrs Rider. No signs of ED and […]
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