Helpful sites/special thanks Special thanks to all the Fapstronauts, even the ones with only 1 day so far. You guys are all really cool. Thanks to everybody for sharing their feelings on this subreddit, and being able to build up the strength to embark on this journey. Thanks to all the guys who shared their […]
Read More… from Age 17 – More social, deeper voice, brain fog gone, becoming fearless
Well here I am officially 152 days in. Hard mode in that I’ve not yet been in a relationship (fapping 12 years of my life away was extremely isolating), and have been putting my focus into other things these past 152 days. Before NoFap, I was so hung up on it, because I’d become convinced […]
Read More… from Age 31 – I’m the textbook example of “No Fap” is not a cure-all,
I started Nofap around 2 years ago. I’m a 27 year old male, and I had been experiencing ED issues with women for around 5 years. At my worst I was waking up, taking a bong hit, popping an adderall, and edging/masturbating/searching for and downloading porn for sometimes literally the whole day. I was in […]
Read More… from Age 27 – ED cured: I’m back in school & have a girlfriend
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., […]
Addiction. 2011 Feb;106(2):383-90. doi: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2010.03126.x. Epub 2010 Sep 30. Linnet J1, Møller A, Peterson E, Gjedde A, Doudet D. Abstract AIMS: Gambling excitement is believed to be associated with biological measures of pathological gambling. Here, we tested the hypothesis that dopamine release would be associated with increased excitement levels in Pathological Gamblers compared with Healthy […]
I am 19 years old and I am addicted to porn, and I would like to share my story with anyone who could find it helpful. I am not sure for how long I have been addicted to porn, I started watching it when I was 12 or 13, and I think it wasn’t long […]
Read More… from Age 19 – (ED), HOCD: both finally gone, but still struggling with porn
Dtsch Arztebl Int. Jun 2013; 110(25): 425–431. Published online Jun 21, 2013. doi: 10.3238/arztebl.2013.0425 PMCID: PMC3705203 Review Article Neuroscientific Insights Into This Developmental Period Kerstin Konrad, Prof. Dr. rer. nat.,*,1 Christine Firk, Dr. PhD,2 and Peter J Uhlhaas, Dr. PhD3 Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► See letter “Correspondence (letter […]
PLoS One. 2014; 9(1): e84914. Published online Jan 15, 2014. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084914 PMCID: PMC3893168 Daniel Klein,1,2 Anna Rotarska-Jagiela,1 Erhan Genc,1,2 Sharmili Sritharan,1,2 Harald Mohr,3,4 Frederic Roux,1,2 Cheol E. Han,5 Marcus Kaiser,5,6 Wolf Singer,1,2,7 and Peter J. Uhlhaas1,2,8,* Maurice Ptito, Editor Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► Go to: Abstract Evidence […]
J Neurosci. Author manuscript; available in PMC Nov 11, 2011. Published in final edited form as: J Neurosci. May 11, 2011; 31(19): 7174–7177. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0054-11.2011 PMCID: PMC3157294 NIHMSID: NIHMS297379 Armin Raznahan, MD PhD,1,2 Phillip Shaw, MD PhD,1 Francois Lalonde, PhD,1 Mike Stockman,1 Gregory L Wallace, PhD,1 Dede Greenstein, PhD,1 Liv Clasen, PhD,1 Nitin Gogtay, MD,1 […]