This is a good question. I think it depends on the individual. Some people may be very strong minded and be able to push through the withdrawals during a hard mode reboot, and be over with it soon. On the other hand you try a hard mode reboot and it becomes too much, driving you back to porn all the time, keeping you from ever puling away from the actual problem, which is porn. You can spend years doing this and never recover. So yeah, in this case abstaining from porn is probable the best and most efficient way to go about it.
My opinion is that hard mode is not natural and porn is not natural. I'll reboot when my brain decides to reboot, but I'm going to let it recover by eliminating porn. As far as eliminating sex, theirs no reason for me to do that at this time. My problem is porn and the amount of time I lost looking at it. All I want out of this is to stop my addiction to porn by not looking at P and then fix the reasons that caused me to use porn to escape from my real issues.
Hello, What I want is freedom from porn. I want the time I used to spend looking at porn to become time I spend doing something better. Preferably doing things with friends that I need to cultivate, and pursuing a career that I care about. I don't think I have PIED, I'm 64-years-old and ED can be a factor at this age. Watching P doesn't help, but I don't think it was the main cause of ED. ED is like everything else, it can be a reflection of your lifestyle and/or it can happen to anyone for no reason. As you age you will need more sleep, a great diet, physical activity, and a healthy mental state of mind. If you think about it, watching porn can rob you of all those things.
