It took a long time to get here. I couldn’t have done it without my girlfriend. For those of you doing this alone, you have my utmost respect. I probably won’t get many up votes for this, but I’m not going to tell you I have super powers now, because I don’t. I still get […]
It was May 15th of 2017 that I first started taking steps to reverse my PIED. During that same time I was also testing various antidepressants and ADHD meds so it’s hard to tell exactly how long it took to correct it since a lot of those meds had sexual side effects. I started seeing […]
Today is my 45th straight day without PMO! While I can’t say that getting to 45 days has eliminated all of the problems in my life (Spoiler Alert for those of you just getting started: Ditching porn and masturbation will NOT get rid of every issue that you are dealing with…), I can definitively say […]
Yep, it’s been 100 days. Finding nofap has been the best discovery of my adult life. I started nofap around the beginning of this year and the benefits cannot be denied: Better cognition– I didn’t even realize the extent to which porn affected my brain until I got 4 c’s on my transcript and lost […]
I began my journey in 2013. At the time I was extremely fearful of my situation. I had PIED, I was nervous around women and intimacy was a difficult thing for me. I even developed HOCD. Fapping had a detrimental effect on my mental health overall, and I began to feel shame. I abstained for […]
I’m 29 and been a porn addict since 14 years old.First of all I have been through all the super intense addiction, met plenty of women where I couldn’t get hard and I know how it feels to be as ham ed of yourself in front of a woman you conquered. I met a girl […]
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This is a post I dreamt of making ever since I began on my nofap journey. It’s been hard, very hard and has been one of the hardest challenges of my life. This is going to be a slightly long post so I request you all to be patient as you read.. trust me it […]
This page describes the process which saw Compulsive Sexual Behaviour Disorder accepted by the World Health Organization in ICD-11. See bottom of page for papers debating the classification of CSBD. Porn Addicts Are Diagnosable Using the WHO’s Diagnostic Manual (ICD-11) As you may have heard, in 2013 the editors of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual […]
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Peper, Erik, and Richard Harvey. NeuroRegulation 5, no. 1 (2018): 3. Abstract Digital addiction is defined by the American Society for Addiction Medicine (ASAM) as well as the American Psychiatric Association (APA) as “… a primary, chronic disease of brain reward, motivation, memory, and related circuitry. Dysfunction in these circuits leads to characteristic biological, psychological, […]
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Several months back I was extremely confused about my sexuality (bisexual, straight, gay, asexual, couldn’t tell). My brain was warped by porn and real life encounters of a sexual nature scared the shit out of me. I was incredibly troubled at the time. Your response was that it sounded like an adventure. It was an […]
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