Age 28 – 90 days, Q&A – HOCD and social anxiety improved

90 days NoFap, 86 days no orgasm. Edged twice, briefly viewed porn twice (unrelated to edging). Social anxiety, HOCD, and stress immensely diminished. Confidence up, energy up, relationships strengthened, and limitless flirtation with girls. 28 year old male. AMA. [Responses to various forum members who asked questions:] On what day did nofap start to take […]

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Exposure Therapy for HOCD? (2012)

Porn-related HOCD may call for its own treatment protocol Intrusive worries that someone has become gay—although he (she) has been straight for years with no doubts—have gained the label HOCD, homosexual obsessive-compulsive disorder. More properly such worries would be called sexual orientation obsessive-compulsive disorder because they also strike gay people who suddenly wonder if they […]

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