I’ve been struggling with this basically for the last 9 or so months. I had some serious low points, I cried, and I doubted if my life would ever turn around. It’s hard for me to even put all of this into words honestly. Now, I have my life back. Like all of us on […]
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NoFap, an anonymous online community devoted to helping its “Fapstronaut” members overcome their addictions to masturbation and pornography, lends credence to traditional moral teachings and offers important insights for defenders of sexual morality. Let’s call a spade a spade: it’s been a bad year for sexual virtue. The Department of Health and Human Services has […]
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I’m 29, had PMO’d for the last 10+ years, while having normal sexual relationships with women… then over the last 2 years, my porn use escalated, I escalated into some fetish type stuff, and slowly my erection quality/strength went down until I had total PIED and even had trouble getting hard while masturbating. I found […]
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Am J Psychiatry. 2009 Jun;166(6):702-10. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2008.08081201. Epub 2009 May 1. Pizzagalli DA, Holmes AJ, Dillon DG, Goetz EL, Birk JL, Bogdan R, Dougherty DD, Iosifescu DV, Rauch SL, Fava M. Source Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 1220 William James Hall, 33 Kirkland St., Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. [email protected] OBJECTIVE: Major depressive disorder is characterized […]
John D. Salamone, Mercè Correa Neuron – 8 November 2012 (Vol. 76, Issue 3, pp. 470-485) Summary Nucleus accumbens dopamine is known to play a role in motivational processes, and dysfunctions of mesolimbic dopamine may contribute to motivational symptoms of depression and other disorders, as well as features of substance abuse. Although it has become traditional […]
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Neuroimage. 2009 May 15;46(1):327-37. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.01.058. Epub 2009 Feb 6. Jan Wacker,1,2 Daniel G. Dillon,2 and Diego A. Pizzagalli2 Author information ► Copyright and License information ► The publisher’s final edited version of this article is available at Neuroimage See other articles in PMC that cite the published article. Go to: Abstract Anhedonia, the reduced […]
500 days ago during my 31st year, started my NoFap journey. I was having some ED issues,. Without knowing about r/NoFap, I went 7 days without fapping. ED was a little better. I looked to the web for answers. I came across the site YourBrainOnPorn. It led me here. I never got into weird UltraPorn, […]
I wanna start with how I am so blessed to find www.yourbrainrebalanced.com. So many things in my life would not be as good as they are now. Anyways, to be honest I did not start a clock counter but I have definitely surpassed 90 days and am somewhere in the 100’s. I started this reboot […]
So in only twice in my life I have had this feeling before. The first time, when I relapsed it was back in April was during my biggest reboot (40 days), since then I haven’t felt that way…until two days ago! I am feeling that passion for life again, for only the second time in […]
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The first time I had ever heard about NF was when a redditor friend of mine showed me this page he had randomly stumbled upon. My reaction was to admit “oh, man I could never do that”, while secretly wishing I could. For months before NF, I had been trying to quit continuously, but never […]
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