A noFap thread with additional answers from the original poster. LINK – 15 months of no p0rn results by gemiman Hello dear NoFappers. I stumbled across YBOP.com site in March of 2011 and quit watching porn the same day. I had started watching when I was about 14 and eventually lost my desire to be […]
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So today is day 90. What’s happened in my life: My life has quite literally changed since day 1. To start, I had a girlfriend, my first ever. It was the time of my life, and this couldn’t have happened without [Reddit]nofap. However, she dumped me (because of nothing I did, she just wasn’t ready […]
Read More… from Age 18 – 90 days, tons of confidence, a lot more social
I first started noticing more sluggish erections a little over a year and a half ago after I had stopped hooking up with this girl. I was terrified and would always pull up some porn to reassure myself that I was fine. It never really failed me. I discovered masturbation at the age of 7 […]
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10-27 So I’m 24 years old, and have been MO since around 12 or 13, and to P when I could get it. Only since started university 5 years ago have I had regular access to high speed internet, and that’s when I noticed the changes. On average, I would say I PMO 5 or […]
Read More… from Age 24 – Medical student with panic attacks
FULL STUDY Rita Z. Goldstein1 & Nora D. Volkow Nature Reviews Neuroscience 12, 652-669 (November 2011) | doi:10.1038/nrn3119 Abstract The loss of control over drug intake that occurs in addiction was initially believed to result from disruption of subcortical reward circuits. However, imaging studies in addictive behaviours have identified a key involvement of the […]
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1- 02 I’m also taking the 2012 Challenge…with a 4 day lead. I spent all of 2011 quitting porn. I gave up many times, relapsed, binged, escalated my porn use. Porn blockers are useless, I’d always find a way around them. It’s a shit experience, I know it for a fact, but you have to […]
Read More… from Age 18 – No sensation during intercourse
Day 22 Why did it take me so long to find this place?! So here’s my story, 31 years old, moderately successful in my career, fairly attractive, healthy, do endurance stuff, cycling, running, triathlons all the time but I’ve had a piece missing for quite a while and I couldn’t figure out what it was. […]
Read More… from Age 31 – ED, disgusting monkey hidden in a dark room
8-25 I am 18 years old, I discovered pornography quite early on in life around 10 or eleven years old, I remember from the earliest moment I always was turned on by pornography. I would look at pictures of naked girls, and stuff, it then elevated to heterosexual video porn, then like most, I discover […]
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COMMENTS: a review by the top researcher on obesity and food addiction. FULL STUDY Volume 69, Issue 4, 24 February 2011, Pages 664–679 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2011.02.016, Review Paul J. Kenny1, , 1 Laboratory of Behavioral and Molecular Neuroscience, Department of Molecular Therapeutics, The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, FL 33458, USA ________________________________________ Food is consumed in order to maintain […]
Read More… from Reward Mechanisms in Obesity: New Insights and Future Directions (2011)
FULL STUDY The Journal of Neuroscience, 6 September 2006, 26(36): 9196-9204; doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1124-06.2006 Peter Olausson1, J. David Jentsch2, Natalie Tronson1, Rachel L. Neve3, Eric J. Nestler4, and Jane R. Taylor1 1.Correspondence should be addressed to Jane R. Taylor, Department of Psychiatry, Division of Molecular Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, Ribicoff Research Facilities, Connecticut Mental […]
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