As it has been exactly a year I would like to share my inner thoughts about this addiction as it hopefully might be helpful to someone out there. Cause we are all here to help each other, right? Long story short, I wanted to change something in my life after the break-up with a two-year […]
As for the changes in my life, while I was in my 7 year relationship with my ex, she would get extremely jealous if I so much just interacted with a girl. So I almost made no girlfriends at that time. I’ll be honest and say that I regret it in a way and has […]
Read More… from On NoFap for a while. Seeing a HUUUUGE difference in life.
I realised latly that being in charge of your sexual energy is one of the or even most important thing in life we need learn how to control it. I decided that I want to write about my experience, because it is very important for guys to know how they can decrease quality of their […]
Read More… from Age 21 – Improved concentration, higher self-confidence, girls notice me more
Did this study replicate Voon et al.? When exposed to cues, hypersexuals had greater brain activity, compared to controls in all brain regions of interest. So yes it did, but the only region both studies had in common was the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex. Voon studies addressed these brain regions: ventral striatum, dorsal anterior cingulate […]
Read More… from Notes on this study in comparison with earlier studies
I was never one of these guys who had social anxiety. I could get any girl I wanted, it was easy and the whole scene bored me very quickly. I didn’t give a fuck and girls loved me for it (genuinely)…. but there was always something missing. As I am sure every single guy in […]
Read More… from Age 21 – PIED cured. I am a new man, in many ways.
I started Nofap in hopes of improving my social anxiety. It wasn’t until a couple weeks down the line that I realized that I didn’t just have social anxiety. I had anxiety alone. It was then that I realized that anxiety isn’t compartmentalized. If you have anxiety in social situations, it’s likely that you have […]
COMMENTS: This Korean fMRI study replicates other brain studies on porn users. Like the Cambridge University studies it found cue-induced brain activation patterns in sex addicts which mirrored the patterns of drug addicts. In line with several German studies it found alterations in the prefrontal cortex which match the changes observed in drug addicts. While […]
100 Days! (2nd time around!)- what have I learned? 10 Principles of Recovery Below are several principles that have been in place for me currently and during my longest periods of abstinence. For those times when we get lost in the forest, and we need to find our way, use these principles (or those that […]
COMMENTS: While this paper is only a brief summation, it contains a few key observations on emerging science. For example, it states that both Prause et al., 2015 and Kuhn & Gallinat, 2014 report a similar finding: greater porn use correlating with greater habituation to porn. Both studies reported lower brain activation in response to […]
Read More… from Neurobiology of Compulsive Sexual Behavior: Emerging Science (2016)
I made it 90 days thanks to God, you guys and a few key friends. My goal is a year of nofap. It will be at least 6 months from now that I consider having sex or getting into a relationship. My 90 days has been hard mode. I had sex at day 12 and […]