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I accidently Politicised my Life

Discussion in 'Rebooting - Porn Addiction Recovery' started by Sad Googley100, Jan 27, 2024.

  1. Jan 27, 2024 #1
    Sad Googley100

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    On Nofap, there is a community of people who "Gamify" their life so that they can become more productive as they see life as a game to succeed and progress in. It sounds really fun and many people have been successful with that method but since I started abstaining from Porn in 2022, I've taken a different route.

    I initially deleted Reddit in April 2022 and since then, I've compared it to declaring "war" on Porn and any urges are like "rebels" who want to cause a relapse and that I was the government of myself who was in control and had to lead me to glory. In this "war" I would block many websites and compare it to missile strikes and conquest.

    This was fine for me in the first "Porn war" but in Feb 2023, Everything went wrong and I claimed it was an "economic depression" and that I was fighting against myself. I felt horrible and that I never took anything seriously because it was just some conflict I made up and any mistakes I made, I could blame Porn. I even suggested that when I started having a crush in 2021, it was a "Nofap revolution".

    This is what I now refer to as Politicising your life.

    I've been hesitant to post this as I feel like this is cringe and stupid but it's been bothering me throughout 2023/2024 and it seems impossible to recover as it's so persistent.
     
    Sad Googley100, Jan 27, 2024
    Sad Googley100, Jan 27, 2024
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  2. Jan 28, 2024 #2
    Sisyphus1

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    I wouldn't be embarrassed about thinking this way man. If metaphors and analogies help you with this journey, by all means go ahead and continue doing it. You didn't make up a conflict. The conflict between you and your porn usage is very real. You are just viewing it in a war like manner.

    In fact when I first started this journey, when I had an urge, to get rid of it, I imagined putting the urges in jail. A literal horny jail. I imagined how to urges would interact with each other. How over time more urges where added to the jail. The main purpose of this way of thinking was to stop thinking about porn and think about this imaginary scenario instead. To change my way of thinking. Maybe you could do something similar if it helps you. If you have an urge, you could imagine it as an enemy charge or manoeuvre and you imagine yourself dispatching troops and giving orders to stop them. This makes you stop thinking about the urge and start thinking about something else.

    Ngl, it would kinda cool to see a NoFap journal written in a war diary style.
     
    Sisyphus1, Jan 28, 2024
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  3. Jan 28, 2024 #3
    flapabstainer

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    I imagine this guy thinking of himself as hitler from the bunker scene in Downfall when an urge hits and he starts browsing P sites. :emoji_laughing:

    But i would also absolutely follow a journal like this. Good luck in your journey bro.
     
    flapabstainer, Jan 28, 2024
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