What a journey! So much shame and self-blame. So much confusion and denial. After 10 years to finally get to the point of recognizing that ALL of it, all of the ED, all of the reduced dating confidence, all of the emotional defensiveness, all of the sense of meaninglessness and despair, all of the lost […]
Read More… from Age 43 – ED gone, mood calm, focused on work, sex good! almost 90 days
First of all, I wanted to thank Gary Wilson (and others like him, including the active members of www.yourbrainrebalanced.com) from the bottom of my heart, for standing up for this issue (PIED) and helping to educate the misguided men of this world. Education WILL cure the demise of man. Aware parents of this generation will […]
YBOP COMMENTS: Below is the YBOP July, 2013 response to “Critique of Prause Study“ by Rory C. Reid, PhD (Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Los Angeles). Why have we written a response to Rory Reid’s critique of Nicole Prause’s “Sexual Desire, not Hypersexuality, is Related to Neurophysiological Responses Elicited by Sexual Images“? Because it […]
Dopamine improves deficiencies in social behavior could have implications for neuropsychiatric disorders A stressful pregnancy might be the last thing a future mother needs, but it is to her unborn baby that this stress spells real trouble. All because stress hormones (called glucocorticoids or GCs) can disturb normal foetal brain development, leading to behavioural and/or […]
I’m 30 now. Started PMO very young to the Playboys my dad left in the bathroom and in a big pile in the basement. Once he told me that he left them out purposely because he wanted me to know what the female body looked like. I think it was a noble idea in his […]
Read More… from Age 30 – More assertive, better posture, more confident, waking up is easier.
I started my journey in June and I wouldn’t say I held strongly to the 90 days. It September 1 and I had several relapses with PMO over the Summer. However, two weeks ago my wife and I were able to have sex nearly every day, and a few of those days multiple times. I […]
Read More… from Age 25 – (ED) Married and had sex during reboot
Comments: Exposure therapy may not be the best approach for HOCD and a porn addiction. See- Exposure Therapy for HOCD? Rose Bretécher, The Guardian, Friday 30 August 2013 You mentally undress your friends, Tony Blair, the lollipop lady. Your thoughts are X-rated. You wonder if you’re a paedophile – or just losing your mind. A […]
Please take a few minutes to read my story. I have never told this to anyone, but since we are all on the same boat, here it is: I was stationed in Iraq with 200 other marines. We were all in one tiny elementary school thus each classroom had over 40 marines in racks. I […]
Read More… from Age 19 – Forcibly rebooted in Iraq: now I understand what happened to me
91 days ago I started NoFap. the day I started was the last one in a 16-years-lasting PMO-career. Now I am 32 years old. I started NoFap to cure myself from ED and PE, to stop wasting my time on PMO and to cure mild anxiety and mild depression. This is where I started: I […]
Read More… from Age 32 – Serious ED cured, mild anxiety & depression cured
Are you an avid Facebook user? It’s all about your nucleus accumbens A person’s intensity of Facebook use can be predicted by activity in a reward-related area of the brain, according to a new study published in the open-access journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. In the first study to relate brain activity to social media […]
Read More… from (L) Are you an avid Facebook user? It’s all about your nucleus accumbens (2013)