Does Internet porn reveal our sexual desires—or alter them? Fellow “Psychology Today” blogger Leon F. Seltzer recently completed a herculean 12-part blog series on the subject of the Internet and human sexual desire (based on Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam’s A Billion Wicked Thoughts, 2011). In his final segment, he did an excellent job of […]
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When I started 100 was the new 90. So in ode to that here is my 100 day report. I chanced upon nofap in a forum I frequent. It has without a doubt improved my life. My story: I have PMO’d for about 7 years. I am a 22 YO male and have suffered from […]
Read More… from Age 22 – ED, DE, PE, and anxious: I’m now a sexual beast
Intro With the symptoms of porn addiction I suffered over the years, I saw a GP, Specialists, Psychiatrists and a Psychologist. Symptoms being depression, anxiety, tiredness, social isolation mainly. Not one of these ‘professionals’ made the link between the symptoms I had and porn addiction. They sent me off for blood tests and/or gave me […]
Read More… from Age 47 – ED, anxiety, depression – everything’s changed
A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays; Nofap and Life This is a selection of my thoughts after having tried nofap for 3 months. Not a story as such, just some general points you may find interesting. The focus is on how nofap alters all areas of life. To start off with, here are my vital statistics. […]
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Things That Help Me (and may help you) Since I’ve joined this community I’ve relapsed several times but I thought I might write a post to everyone to share some tactics that have helped me through this whole process: Setting r/NoFap as my home page– this helps curb my impulse to immediately jump on a […]
FULL STUDY – Am J Psychiatry 158:1558-1567, October 2001 © 2001 American Psychiatric Association Sanjay J. Mathew, M.D., Jeremy D. Coplan, M.D., and Jack M. Gorman, M.D. Abstract OBJECTIVE: The authors critically surveyed several preclinical and clinical neurobiological models of social anxiety disorder. METHOD: The authors reviewed the recent literature regarding three animal models […]
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Neuropharmacology. 2012 Jun;62(8):2463-71. Enoksson T, Bertran-Gonzalez J, Christie MJ. Source Brain and Mind Research Institute, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia. Abstract Opioids are effective analgesic agents but serious adverse effects such as tolerance and withdrawal contribute to opioid dependence and limit their use. Opioid withdrawal involves numerous brain regions and includes suppression of […]
How gadgets and the internet are turning us into a nation of emotional basket cases By John Naish PUBLISHED: 18:16 EST, 18 July 2012 | UPDATED: 19:13 EST, 18 July 2012 Can Facebook turn you into a narcissist? Are smartphones creating a nation of panicky control freaks? Do computer games make us develop the attention […]
Hey folks. Yesterday marked my last day of nofap, thought I’d share some quick thoughts about my experiences over the last 230 days. I started nofap with the goal of recovering from porn addiction. I’d been struggling to quit porn on and off for at least a year and a half, probably more like two. […]
I am 26 and have been been addicted to PMO since the age of 14. I started with “normal” porn but eventually desensitized to it and escalated to shameful genres and fetishes. For years I wondered why I was so anxious and awkward around people. Why had I never had a girlfriend? Other people seemed […]
Read More… from Age 26 – 60 days: already feel like a new person