Hello all. I am about 47 days into Nofap in attempt to cure PIED. I've been reading around trying to find cases similar to mine to find some hope. There were some pretty bad ones however, none have been as extreme as mine. Here's a rough outline of case. 1.Found my brothers porn mags at 6 2.watched porn around 10 3.started MO-ing in the bathroom around 11 4.started PMO-ing around 13 til now at 32. 5. I am a virgin. It felt like my whole life I've used porn. I've PMO'd as much as 6 times a day at times, but I think I averaged about 20 per week for the past 10 years. PMO'd for close to 20 years. My goal is to dedicate myself to hardmode Nofap. And if I do get cured from this severe addiction, I want to post detailed progress to inspire and give hope to others that may have very extreme cases such as mine.
P&M since I was 10. I did so for 45 years I am now 55. Get this dialed in why you can or you will be me in 20 more years. I am on my first 132 days ever . Never more then a week or two off. The mistake I made, so thinking I hit rock bottom, 20 years ago around your age I tried to really quit and failed obviously. I will tell you it gets worse way worse. Your body will eventually give out and take everything it can with it. I am not just having clean time I am having to rewire my whole brain from when I was 10 until now thats 45years I have to fix in me. You are me, twenty years ago, do " not " let yourself be me in 20 more years. Pray you get the strength its worth it, not doing so wont make anything better.
Thanks for sharing this. I'm 33. Been fapping to porn since 11 or 12. Thanks for the advice and encouragement. I'm hoping this will be the streak to end all streaks.
You and I are pretty close to the same with regards to age, time-frame of porn viewing, and weekly use. DO you mind please sharing some of your experiences or advice (positive and negative) that you've experienced in the first 45 days? Also best of luck to you. I hope you conquer the addition!
My first phase was the first two weeks. This was really hard and I had a hard time trying not to touch myself. I could tell my mind was craving for porn and my penis was craving for my hand. I dealt with this by distracting myself. But a technique I used was trying to channel the sensation in my penis into my head as motivation. So I felt like i was able to get the feeling into my head instead of my penis. Don't know if it makes sense but somehow it worked for me. This uncontrollable need for PMO eventually passed. Week 2-4 I couldn't feel any sensation in my penis at all. It kinda felt like it wasn't there. It worried me a lot that it would stay this way because I lost all natural desire for sexual activity, porn etc. However, the plus sides were that my morning woods are getting stronger and my penis became more sensitive. Week 4 to Current 45 day streak. Sensation in my penis started to come back. I can feel my penis. I'm horny. Needless to say I'm actually relieved. Feels like progress. It feels similar to the urge I got from the first two weeks but this time it was not as bad and it's easy to control. I pulled down my pants to see if I can force an erection by just thinking it but I guess I'm not able to do it. I was able to do it before once upon a time. However, morning wood is the hardest I've ever felt it. Like I had no idea I could get that hard. Today I decied pulled my pants down when I was on my bed to test if I could maintain that erection without physical stimulation. It went away almost immediately. It felt pretty defeating but I can't even remember if I could do that when I was young anyway. Right now I am just happy that I am still making progress somewhere. My worst fear is that I will get stuck in a phase so long where I wont see gradual progress. This will be very demotivating if I am not given signs that I am on the path to recovery. I know it is still early and some people take about 2 or more years to recover. I hope that I am luckier than that and either way I am not going to give up. Here is more information about me for those who want more to relate to their own cases. -I did have extreme social anxiety that disappeared around the same time I started Nofap. However, I did take a lot of steps to put myself out there so I'm not sure if I can completely credit it all to Nofap. -I'm 5'8 160, pretty healthy diet, exercise 5 times a week. -Never had a girl friend and never got close to having sex with girl.
Thanks for sharing. Feel free to post periodic updates. I'm interested to see how you progress. Thanks again and best of luck to you!
