Any former porn addicts here? i feel like a shell of a human. my mental health is so degraded...

any former porn addicts here? i feel like a shell of a human. my mental health is so degraded. i need to quit for my sanity. any advice or tips?

get rid of adblock so that everytime you go on some shitty site you won't be able to jack off cuz you're too scared about ruining your computer with a virus

Day 6 NoFap now. It sucks but after the first 3days you already feel like a new man. To be honest I still watched porn and edges but it's a significant decrease and will only get better over time.

Porn is almost a social norm anymore. Just stop watching it dude. Also I know I'm going to get a lot of hate for it here, but considering Christianity isn't a bad go to.

Hey yourself back from what the enemy has taken away and get healthy.

Much better girls in the church too.

Also go see a doctor and see if he can prescribe something to curb some of the urges. Walking also helps so now I take my dog on longer walks

No offense but all the church girls I know are absolute loons.

I like this response. Many churches are evil and preach what Jesus criticized not endorsed, but every once in a while you'll find one that gets it.

im on nofap but cheating with edging as well, cant stop looking at it

i have a bad experience with church

how do you tell if you're

obsessively checking sites, thinking about it all times of the day, cant get work done, cant focus on relationships, you have no other purpose but to seek porn and find that "next high. "you just become emotionally numb to everything

holy shit that sounds bad. mind telling an anecdote on how/what in your life led to that? im young and still have time, dont wanna make the same mistakes as you

dont start watching any form of sissy porn

Watch it until your hearts content. Watching porn does not make you less of a person, or bring down your moral character. Its really not a big deal. Watching images on a screen does not equate to being a peice of shit. Its way easier to do other shit when your not so fixated on being fixated on porn. Your fixation on your fixation will make you fixated.

Dont go see your fucking doctor.

Porn consumes time. Time is the stuff your life is made of. It's very possible to make your whole life a shade greyer just by losing one hour of each day to porn; here I am at 1:30 am awake after a fap session. I'm going to be tired at work tomorrow and it's going to be harder to get things back on track the day after. My work will slip. I'll feel stressed and I'll want to be jacking it after midnight again the next day.

This is the problem some of us have with porn in a nutshell. No nofap mysticism required to understand it, it's just a matter of time.

Dont ever start. Unfortunately on Sup Forums its pretty much impossible given that the bulk of threads on here are porn.

No fap is a meme, coming from someone who is on Sup Forums at 1:30 am looming for a reason to fap for the 3rd time.

If being aroused comes naturally and your in the right place there isn't a reason not to fap. I find I am just bored and like the feeling and I know porn will usually forcefully make me horney.

Porn is just the problem, pictures are useless to me right now, most videos, o search for 30 minutes on average even when I'm feeling it.

You don't understand how valuable time and good rest is. Or maybe you don't do this regularly enough. Don't mock people who have a problem with porn; if you're spending upwards of an hour of day trying to fap you're already probably leaving an impoverished version of the life you might have if you cut the frequency down to once every two days, or twice a week...

If you are bored at 1:30 am you'd be better off asleep then jerking off for a 3rd time. You and I are objectively losers. The nofap "meme" is at least a good faith effort made by losers to stop being losers.

Honestly nofap isnt bullshit, porn is bad for ur brain, actually causes a reduced interest in everything else in ur life (because porn seems so grand and ur dopamine receptors basically get trashed by looking at something that constantly replenishes them)

and it can cause erectile dysfunction. there are studies proving this.

I'm not mocking people who have a problem porn, you misunderstand. I'm agreeing actually, I wouldnt say I'm 'addicted' either though, just tends to get worse when im feeling lonely and spirals the feeling.

But overall if I strickly cut out porn I would spend probably 70% less time masturbating. This is because porn can make me stimulated instantly, well pretty quickly. And then I can cum and feel really good. Basically a flick of a switch, obviously over time its harder to find what does that for you. Which is where you waste time. Though the longer you wait the more easily stimulated you are, so if you don't fap for two days after gaping multiple times a day, a fairly vanila video will be good, wait 4 days just pictures are good. And so on.

Masturbating isn't the devil, choosing to watch porn to become stimulated to then cum and feel good is the root of the problem. The more often you do it the more time you'll waste chasing the feeling.

Take a break for 3 days and you have a great orgasm.


It makes sense to some degree but the idea you better off never doing it is a lie, having an organic cycle where you are stimulated enough to fap to basic videos, pictures, or your imagination without wasting time to get to the end goal is healthy.

Honestly what I'm doing is not healthy... Yet I don't think its addiction

So far I'm nofap for 30 days. Here's the changes I've felt. Increased energy, I'm more awake, I'm less antsy and I am able to concentrate for longer periods of time. Here's some behavioral science behind this. When you orgasm your body releases huge amounts of endorphins. That's because men are supposed to be raring to go at any moment in order to procreate. What watching porn does is artificially simulate sex and thus you get that high you would get from sex. However now you are flooding your body with endorphins multiple times a day for weeks on end and you begin to loose your drive. Now normal things that would create endorphins like exercise and love feel cheep and weak compared to the high dose your used to. Now once you take yourself of that constant high your going to feel like shit until your bodies endocrinology reverts itself to its natural state. After that the things that are supposed to fulfill you will and you will have broken the addiction. It depends on how severe it is but most see clear results in about a month with sporadic high points and low points as your bodies tries to find its equilibrium again. So go for it cuz the rewards are well worth it.

fucking exactly. this shit isnt fake, porn is fuckin bad for you

I've dealt with substance addiction in the past and porn is very similar. The physical withdrawal isn't the same (honestly the last time I experienced true withdrawal frequent porn use was part of how I dealt with it), but I can tell you that if you know what you are doing isn't healthy but you continue to do it you are on some level experiencing an addiction. Even drug dependencies where cessation leads to physical suffering are ultimately choices, I remember when I chose to stop using. The difference is only a matter of degree, not nature. Porn doesn't feel as harmful but it's so easy to find yourself at it again day after day, hour gone after hour. It's the true common problem of all these habits - your time is gone and you've atrophied mentally or emotionally (and probably your health has suffered - here mainly from chronic sleep loss).

Its hard to say, I've gone to weeks where I've watch porn twice a day and other weeks where it was once or less a day. I guess the constant is I can't generally go longer than 3 days without porn. 2 days is my comfortable limit... Realistically that's not the greatest statistic.

At the same time though there are many times as Hunan beings we choose to do something we know is not healthy. Eating fast food regularly, getting drunk, spending too much time on past times.

I can't go two days without at least YouTube, Netflix, or other stimulation. I cant not use something like Sup Forums on top of thosse. Is it addiction?

fuck im inspired, been struggling with porn for literally years and its gotten to the point where i start to sing "hello darkness my old friend" when i know im about to fap.

literally been fapping 3 times a day since i can remembers, 1 in the morning, once when im alone, last before i sleep. i have troubles sleeping at night if i dont fap before sleep.

deleting my fap folder as this posts. heres to my first legit try at no fap

folders gone. any tips? like legit tips of how to cope with it because i've tried before but never got very far. none of this "just quit" shit because that hasnt worked

I masturbate because i'm depressed.

Sorry man, sounds rough. Whenever I'm in a bad spot I usually just watch porn and masturbate

You'll regret it. Any folder you get from Sup Forums is irreplaceable

Best to keep a backup and just keep it in a inconvenient spot

Are you doing enough to improve your life to offset the other things? Observing that people are misspending their days in general is a poor argument for doing the same. Speaking for myself personally, if I cut out the porn habit I would probably have enough time left to be in the black overall. My diet could be better but I do follow a serious exercise regime. My recovery suffers because I'm not sleeping enough. My performance at work suffers because I'm not sleeping enough. I don't have the concentration or time needed for the books I'd like to read because of the sleep, and I'm not sleeping enough because I've fallen into a very regular pornography and post porn surfing habit. I'm still here...

You're going to have to learn how to just sleep when it's bed time mainly. If it's early when you would normally fap you'll have to learn to just go to work right away. If you'd normally fap right when you get home you'll have to replace the time you'd spend on something else - exercise, reading, practicing hobbies.

I've always had sleeping problems pre/post fap

My diet is fairly good but I've been trying to gain weight so I've been letting my self cheat a few times a week.

I stop gaming, netflix, youtube, and other stuff when I need to.

Wanting to find a reason to fap when I REALLY don't need to makes me wanna take a break though, I'm just pointlessly chasing that feeling at this point. Kinda funny I ran into this thread, though it was related to what I was trying to do. I wanna say I'm going to hold my self to photos only from here on out and take 3 days off but my mless account always comes to mind eventually lol. Going to take a break for atleast 3 days though and get a better perspective.

Good luck. I think I need at least a few days porn free from here myself. (I won't delude myself into saying I'll stop from now on for good. I know I could, but I know I'm not ready to let go of the addiction for longer term yet.) A 3+ day gap always leaves me feeling better, but the porn assisted release after that tends to lead to immediate regression to the daily habit. It would not be so bad if it was just once every 3 days but I do think I'll have to commit to longer regular breaks from any kind of porn if I'm to find a balance where I don't find myself back in this situation again.

Note that the whole thread is sidestepping the ethics of porn itself. When I think about it I believe it is mostly not ethical but it's an appetite I indulge anyway. Blech