Hi guys, this is going to act as a mini journal for my attempts. i'm going to ramble a lot in these threads and see how things go.. the challenge is to not masturbate for as long as possible. its 10 at night where i'm at, so there's no urge just yet (the word urge gives me a urge ironically) but i'll try to type on here every day.
dude, may i give u a little advice? iam actually still not got long streak tough, but i know the tips that can help you. if u said it is about survival mode, u will fail someday man, because of our willpower has limit and someday it can getting low the more we fight again our habit. the only one to replace this is with changing with another habit, for example if u get urges, notice that things and learn more about it, then replace it with new habit. there is so many habit that can replace PMO, with also can make ur dopamine up too, but it takes pretty much time too, u can replace it whenever u felt urges, go start work out, you can go push up,running around your hometown or get excercise and two if it is night, you can get instant cold shower and then contiune meditate. i know it is hard, but it is only happen in early. once you can make the new habit to replace the old one, whenever you get urges, ur brain will can resist that tempation and change that old habit and doing the new one like excersise or other things that are far better with some reward in our brain : dopamine. , try look this and try read some book of mel robins, she is learn about our habit in our brain and trick to replace the old habit into the new good habit
hey guys, thank you for the comments - thirdstar1, i'll try to think of it as a replacement with a new habit. day 1 begins, i've gone through the process since I was 16 so I know there's some brain fog involved, but the brain fog was (thankfully) very light today. social skills wise, i wasn't too bad, but i think i really need to learn how to be more attentive of other people- especially girls- and masturbation seems to hinder me from this i think. it's a learning process. what seems to happen is that around day 6-7, I literally become immobile - i have no motivation to do anything else other than masturbate. that time period is when my mind is most vulnerable.... i think what's been missing throughout these two years is that 1. i lack a accountability partner and 2. i was too afraid back then to type out my own feelings. i don't know if talking about my own urges will help to remove them, but here goes.
Oh yeah you can refresh restart. May i know how did it happen earlier? Maybe we can learn from it too
Yeah. Thanks for asking man. I just did continue chatting here last night to divert my urge. Got really harder morning woods now. Really close to releasing it like a wet dream in an awake state. But holding.on bro
Good to hear that you won against the urge You will probably release it in some way soon but that is just natural. Good luck man!
day 3 (round 2) - going stronger than ever! urges are a lot more aggressive now but i feel so much more social now. if anyone wants to start a accountability group then pm me your number.