Age 25 – Diagnosed with schizotypal personality disorder: Symptoms dramatically improved

I fapped from 13 to 25 almost 3-4 times at week, always with pornography, so mine is a long fap career.. I never had a real girlfriend, and yes I’m still virgin. At the age of 22 I was diagnosed with schizotypal personality disorder. My anxiety was above any imagination, my heart started with palpitations. […]

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Age 21 – ED gone: rebooted and rewired to recovery, but it took 2 years

Background: Started masturbating to soft core at age 13 (first orgasm ever was to porn on TV…yikes), progressed to hardcore 14, gang bang porn at 18. Never had any female experiences until age 18. Got gf somehow, issues immediate and very embarrassing, I thought I just had performance anxiety. Girlfriend stayed with me for a […]

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Age 25 – After 2 years of nofap attempts, I made it 2 months – overcame ED, anxiety & depression

I first discovered nofap before I even knew I had porn-induced erectile dysfunction about 2 years ago. I could only make it a few days or weeks at a time at first and then I would binge for long periods between attempts. I was depressed and socially anxious and I didn’t know why. Then, I […]

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Aversive Stimuli Drive Drug Seeking in a State of Low Dopamine Tone (2014)

Biol Psychiatry. 2014 Sep 22. pii: S0006-3223(14)00703-3. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2014.09.004. Twining RC1, Wheeler DS2, Ebben AL2, Jacobsen AJ2, Robble MA2, Mantsch JR2, Wheeler RA2. Abstract Background Stressors negatively impact emotional state and drive drug seeking, in part, by modulating the activity of the mesolimbic dopamine system. Unfortunately, the rapid regulation of dopamine signaling by the aversive […]

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Effects of Prolonged Consumption of Pornography (1986)

PDF OF STUDY – 39 pages DOLF ZILLMANN Indiana University JENNINGS BRYANT University of Alabama Abstract Male and female students and nonstudents were exposed to videotapes featuring common, nonviolent pornography or innocuous content. Exposure was in hourly sessions in six consecutive weeks. In the seventh week, subjects participated in an ostensibly unrelated study on societal […]

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