Today went to the doctor and received a clean bill of health on a number of issues previously afflicting me. Personally, I attribute the cure to nofap, but in the first instance the cause of some of the issues were nofap and the lack of dopamine. So for anyone who still thinks porn is harmless, throw those ideas into the dustbin. Porn is as dangerous as many drugs, in some ways more dangerous because society still thinks it is harmless. At least psychologists who still have not allowed it into the DSM-5 manual of psychiatric diseases. In this way they mirror the early days of cigarette smoking where the cigarette lobby controlled much of the medical community. I will not elaborate on my personal circumstances, but suffice to say that they were serious enough to earn me a ride in an ambulance to hospital in the middle of the night. However, since my dopamine levels have returned to near baseline, my mood, motivation, happiness and outlook on life as well as my medical condition have all become fantastic. I can leave the doctors behind, and get on with life with a new positive outlook and zest for life. This is not to say that I still do not get urges to PMO, that is part of being human, but I have also done a bit of study of CBT (Cognitive Behaviour Therapy) techniques and employ them to make the urges explain why I should follow them. They never succeed in convincing me to PMO, so they are getting progressively weaker as a result. I also overcome urges by imagining how I would feel after a brief high from PMO, and the hell I would go through for days after the event. This convinces me it is just not worth the price of doing PMO. So, dear friends and fellow travellers on this road to recovery, wherever you are on the journey just remember, it is not failure that defeats us, but failure to get up and continue on the path if we fall. Any relapse is just a bump in the road to recovery, we are all divine magnificent products of either a creator or nature( if you are not religious), and deserve respect, both from others and ourselves. Cheers for now.
