This may be a long post, and some of what I’m going to say might sound contradictory to some of the messages we’ve gotten from this site, but know that the amount of good this site has created is astronomical, and hundreds of thousands of us from different walks of life have been helped back […]
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My path to recovery from porn induced ED has been a long one. For the longest time I thought something was physically wrong with me – i.e a venous leak – and never made the connection between porn and my inability to maintain an erection. I couldn’t maintain an erection standing up. Sitting down, I […]
Read More… from Age 21 – ED cured. Need to deal with the addiction head on
Transl Psychiatry. Apr 2014; 4(4): e387. doi: 10.1038/tp.2014.28 M R Harb1,2 and O F X Almeida1,* Abstract Elevated glucocorticoid levels and sign tracking (ST) in Pavlovian conditioning are potential biomarkers of compulsive behaviors such as addiction. As overeating is sometimes viewed as a form of addictive behavior, we hypothesized that murine Pavlovian sign trackers would […]
Front Psychiatry. 2014 Apr 7;5:38. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2014.00038. Adrian Meule1,2,* In a recent article (1), Dr. Rippe highlights that lifestyle medicine practitioners need to ground their recommendations on sound scientific evidence and that this is complicated by the fact that scientific information is often distorted and conjecture is sometimes confused with proof. This includes, for example, […]
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Front. Psychol., 08 May 2014 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00403 Caroline Davis1*, Robert D. Levitan2, Allan S. Kaplan2, James L. Kennedy2 and Jacqueline C. Carter3 1Kinesiology and Health Science, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada 2Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada 3Department of Psychology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL, Canada There is […]
I have finally made it to the 90 days! 😀 (Well almost ;)) At the start I really never thought it would be achievable, it seemed so far away. Now I feel like I will not masturbate ever again or at least in a long time. It has been such an amazing journey, with many […]
Read More… from Age 22 – Much more alive, much more happy and enjoying life much more
It just… feels like me! It’s strange. This whole journey has produced a growth in me so steady and so gradual, that it actually requires great effort to precisely denote the changes. The changes have been occurring in several more areas than just sex-related. Furthermore, the changes are constant and will continue long after this […]
Read More… from Age 26 – ED nearly gone, I am a much more happy and confident person
And what I’ve been missing was simply, my soul. Years of PMO have stripped me of who I am. Leaving behind an empty shell running on autopilot thinking about nothing but the next “fix”. I was a ghost chasing shadows, wondering why everything felt so unreal, wondering what was wrong with the world and when […]
26 year-old gay guy here. After a few good streaks, at the end of December, I told myself I would take it day by day and join the 2014 challenge. Well, it was extremely challenging but I made it to 90 days (no PMO – still MO). There were a lot of mood swings, feelings […]
Aside from the ego boost, I wanted to post this to point out that it takes everyone different amounts of time to make it far in this challenge. I just today completed my first 100 days hardmode, no fantasy, no MO streak, along with cold showers for about 4-5 months (which has been going on […]