Who I am: A 28 year old regular guy. Started PMO when I was about 18. Feel free to read my story. I realize that this is a long post and I’m mostly posting this for personal reasons, to finally get it off my chest. Maybe someone out there can relate. Before: On average I […]
Read More… from Age 28 – HOCD almost gone, no longer depressed or anxious, in a great relationship
The process of NoFap has been a lifechanging experience. Notice I wrote it as a process, continually ongoing, everyday as a different and unique challenge. As a fapstronaut with 13 years under his belt, one day the concept of turning on my computer, opening my stash and f’ing myself, literally and figuratively made me question […]
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Last Halloween I attended a dance and the girls were in their outfits. I was with a friend of mine. As we stood awkwardly on the edge of the dance floor watching ladies dance, I leaned to my friend and asked, “What if a girl walked over and offered to blow you behind the speaker?” […]
I thought when I reached 90 days of NoFap, I would have seen all the benefits of my experiment. At the six-month mark, life is only getting better. To be fair, early on, I started a meditation practice to teach my brain to control the urges. Every day now, I sit for at least ten […]
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Front. Integr. Neurosci., 20 July 2012 | doi: 10.3389/fnint.2012.00049 Jeff A. Beeler1*, Cristianne R. M. Frazier2 and Xiaoxi Zhuang1,2 1Department of Neurobiology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA 2Committee on Neurobiology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA Accumulating evidence indicates integration of dopamine function with metabolic signals, highlighting a potential role for dopamine […]
I hit the 90 day mark and I wanted to report on some the benefits I’ve seen in my life: I feel better about myself. I haven’t had a marked increase in confidence as I was already a fairly confident guy to begin with, but what I’ve noticed instead is that I just feel really, […]
Read More… from Age 28 – Married: incredible life improvements
Know what? I feel like a snake after it sheds its skin. Though it is far from over…the urges for porn are on a very low controllable level, but rewiring to the real thing just started. Right now, I just sense the seeds growing that I planted last year in july when I read an […]
Read More… from Age 24 – (ED) 90 days: Escape From the “Comfort-Zone Prison”
LINK TO ORIGNAL POST In this guest blog post fmitsui argues that since many crossdreamers find it hard to live out their sexuality in real life, they end up exploring it in fantasies and pornography instead. Ironically, fmitsui argues, this may lead to an addiction that stops them from establishing the real life relationships they are […]
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Are Porn Tube Sites Causing Erectile Dysfunction? Another article from the prolific creator of YourBrainOnPorn.com I can’t agree more with this article. The tube sites were definitely the killer for me. You used to have to trawl through porn torrent sites, find the one you liked with enough seeds and wait for it to download. Then […]
Image: Cocaine users show low activity in the medial orbitofrontal cortex Regular cocaine users have difficulties in feeling empathy for others and they exhibit less prosocial behavior. A study at the Psychiatric Hospital of the University of Zurich now suggests that cocaine users have social deficits because social contacts are less rewarding for them. Social […]
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