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Almost on day 7, been so busy I've not had much desire

Discussion in 'Rebooting - Porn Addiction Recovery' started by jw88, Apr 25, 2014.

  1. jw88

    jw88 Fapstronaut

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    I'm having a bit of a stressful day today and I notice the increased desire to fap. It's fascinating, obviously I became addicted to the dopamine release associated with that behaviour and would fap when I felt bad in order to feel better again with the increased dopamine.

    Another ten hours and I would have gone an entire week without fapping or having too much of a desire to do so. I have kept extremely busy with work, gym and study, so busy in fact I've found it extremely draining but it's kept my mind away from fapping. It's hard to avoid pictures of women in bikinis or even sometimes topless online, though I've done my best. However, when I did accidentally come across a few such images, they did nothing for me. I just looked away, changed the page and had no reaction. This may be due to my increased stress/business recently though, but either way, I'm hoping that the lack of fapping and looking at porn will be helping my phsiologically. Hopefully I'll start to find enjoyment in small things again when my dopamine receptors start resensitizing. A question, will they be slowly re-sensitizing already?

    Part of me feels as if I'm not gaining any benefit since I've had no desire to masturbate and it's only through the tough times I'll really benefit? But surely it's taken stress off my adrenals producing all of those hormones?

    I definitely do feel I have more energy and I feel slightly more 'awake'. I've PMO'd since about age 13-14, every day, usually more than once a day for about 11-12 years (Im 25 now). In the last few months I split up with my girlfriend which caused a lot of stress and I'd find myself PMO'ing up to 4-5x a day! Sometimes three days in a row like that. Anyway, I'm hoping to reverse any damage I've done doing this... and I feel accomplished to have reached 7 days (almost)... but hopefully 90 or more! After 90 days I am going to have the rule of only ejaculating when with real physical contact with a girl.
     

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