I’m a few days late on my 180 day post as I’ve been away, but I’ll try and keep this brief. To clarify, the first 90 days of NoFap that I did was on hard mode, and I’ve been on easy mode since then. Why I started NoFap When I began, I was 25 years […]
I am going to get some stick from members on the forum as I am going to give some of you guys a reality check on the forum of how you are relying too much on the forum and the nofap challenge and forgetting about its benefits. Here goes my story briefly, discovered 3 months […]
Read More… from Age 23 – (ED) No more depression or anxiety, much more sociable & confident
Hey all, I stopped posting here around a year ago due to laziness. But I have finally made it out of the addiction/ED trap, and life has never been better . I probably won’t post here again, but figured that there are some guys out there who could use some encouragement. So, here is my […]
Read More… from Age 24 – ED success story. There IS a way out
So I’m posting my story due to my (relatively) small success on my other post entitled why. I won’t get super into detail like where I’m from what I did yesterday, but enough to relate to you and so I can show you how far I’ve come. So I’m 20 years old now, I started […]
Read More… from Age 20 – 250 days: My hero is myself in 10 years.
WOW – I actually did it. I legit have not PMO’d in the last 3 MONTHS. This may be a long post – I’m writing this to serve as a guiding light for others and a therapeutic look back for myself. I actually have some work to get done tonight but this is important for […]
Read More… from Age 26 – 90 days hardmode: spectacular results
There probably aren’t many guys here on nofap over 50, the recent poll showed almost none, but here I am and I am glad to be here. If you don’t want to read this whole long post, I’ll just say that avoiding PMO for 90 days has been great for our marriage. I’m glad I […]
Read More… from Age 50 – Marriage, sex, ED, and perceptions greatly improved.
Front Hum Neurosci. 2013; 7: 762. Published online Nov 14, 2013. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00762 PMCID: PMC3827581 Colin G. DeYoung* Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► Go to: Abstract The neuromodulator dopamine is centrally involved in reward, approach behavior, exploration, and various aspects of cognition. Variations in dopaminergic function appear to be […]
Wai Chong Wong, Kerstin A. Ford, Nicole E. Pagels, James E. McCutcheon, and Michela Marinelli +Show Affiliations + Author Notes J. E. McCutcheon’s present address: Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607. Author contributions: W.C.W., J.E.M., and M.M. designed research; W.C.W., K.A.F., N.E.P., and M.M. performed research; W.C.W., K.A.F., N.E.P., […]
Front Behav Neurosci. 2013; 7: 206. Published online Dec 23, 2013. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2013.00206 PMCID: PMC3870289 Marc N. Potenza* Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► Pathological gambling [PG—now termed “gambling disorder” in DSM-5 (APA, 2013; Petry et al., 2013)] is characterized by maladaptive patterns of gambling that are associated with significant […]
Read More… from How central is dopamine to pathological gambling or gambling disorder? (2013)
Psychiatry Res. Author manuscript; available in PMC Nov 30, 2010. Published in final edited form as: Psychiatry Res. Nov 30, 2009; 170(1): 22–31. Published online Oct 6, 2009. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2008.06.036 PMCID: PMC2792582 NIHMSID: NIHMS151360 Marc Nicholas Potenza,a,* Lorrin Michael Koran,b and Stefano Pallantic Author information ► Copyright and License information ► The publisher’s final edited […]