I’m Aussie so my counter is a day ahead so I just hit my 90 days. Bit of back story. Started no fap in a redevelopment period after breaking up with my ex girlfriend of four years. Got the idea from ‘Models’ by Mark Manson. He suggested PMO only once a week to increase desire […]
Read More… from Age 30 – I feel I have fully rebooted and that I have beaten my porn addiction
I’m a 20-year old medical student. I’m a pretty normal guy. I like hanging out with friends, playing sports and have never had any traumatic event in my life causing me to have caused a problem. I have recovered from Porn Induced ED and just wanted to put my story and tips for recovery on […]
Read More… from Age 20 – Medical student: I recovered from porn-induced ED in 5 months
J Neurosci. 1999 May 15;19(10):4123-31. Vanderschuren LJ1, Wardeh G, De Vries TJ, Mulder AH, Schoffelmeer AN. Abstract The role of dopamine receptors in the modulation of nucleus accumbens noradrenaline release was investigated in superfused rat brain slices. At concentrations of </=1 microM, dopamine enhanced, whereas at higher concentrations dopamine inhibited electrically evoked [3H]noradrenaline release. The […]
Don’t know if any of you remember me, but it will be two years this December since I began my healing. (search for my journal) So, an update after going on two years now… I am porn free!!! The very thought of it makes me sick. I have zero desire to view it. There is […]
Ask The Academy: My question is, I live in Egypt, and I’m a Muslim, Sex before marriage is forbidden in Islam and in Egypt society. And part of our culture that we don’t get married before 26-28 years old in an average. And […]
Front. Behav. Neurosci., 25 August 2014 | doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00288 Zhenhe Zhou*, Hongmei Zhu, Cui Li and Jun Wang Department of Psychiatry, Wuxi Mental Health Center, Wuxi, China ABSTRACT Internet addiction disorder (IAD) should belong to a kind of behavioral addiction. Previous studies indicated that there are many similarities in the neurobiology of behavior and substance […]
Over a year or two ago now, I sat down in front of my computer after work, fired up facebook and resumed the all-familiar position that I had become all too accustomed to for the evening. Relentless scrolling, browsing, masturbating, everything I could do to distract myself from the monotony of what my life had […]
So I consider myself successfully recovered by now. I am 42 years old, sexually not very experienced and have been recovering for 11 months. During this time, I went from not being able to get an erection at all to having sex without ED drugs. Here is an account of my journey. My porn history […]
Read More… from Age 42 – ED cured: the recovery took 11 months
Guillaume Sescousse1,* and Hanneke E.M. den Ouden1,2,* +Show Affiliations ↵*G.S. and H.E.M.d.O. equally contributed to this work. The Journal of Neuroscience, 20 February 2013, 33(8): 3256-3258; doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5828-12.2013 Full Text Full Text (PDF) Next Section Introduction Pathological gambling is a behavioral addiction that is characterized by excessive (monetary) risk-taking in the face of negative consequences, […]
Before I stumbled upon NoFap one year ago, I was fapping 1-3 times a day, yes, that was 365 – 1095 times a year for around 20 years. After reading posts, and exploring more, and putting in hard work, I’ve lowered that frequency. Here are my one year stats since I started this journey- please […]