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Just started my journey… looking for advice.

Discussion in 'New to NoFap' started by PosterBoy, Dec 31, 2023.

  1. PosterBoy

    PosterBoy New Fapstronaut

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    After a period of uncertainty over my commitment to this goal I have finally come to a strongly held conviction and decision that NoFap is what I need to do. I am only a week in but so far I am feeling very confident. I expect that coming soon will be periods of real struggle and temptation, so if anyone has any advice for that please feel free to share how you weather those storms. I also want to kind of share the a little bit of my story, that I’m guessing some will be able to relate to. I should warn, I’m gonna share about sexual experiences I had while still a minor as it makes up most of my sexual experience as I’m only 19… I hope that is not frowned upon as I am only trying to share my personal experiences as it is relevant to my story. Okayyyyy-When I was 7 years old my dad left our family, which left my brother, my mom and me somewhat damaged as well as financially struggling. Coinciding with me grappling with this, I also experienced multiple occurrences of molestation at the hands of a caretaker of mine. To put it plainly these turn of events screwed me up pretty bad, basically to the point where I felt like I was only safe around my brother and my mom. This made school a mental hurdle and cried pretty much every day on the bus to get there. Fast forward to 9 years old when I first discovered Internet porn. My friend showed me some which he had found on his parents IPad which marked the starting line for my fascination and set the stage for my addiction. The euphoria and positive feelings I got when I viewed porn thereafter began to act as a security blanket for me in my emotionally compromised state. I felt sad? Just watch porn! Feeling anxiety? Just watch porn! These were basically the rules I lived by. Also as I side note I wasn’t “O”ing at this point either because I literally wasn’t mature enough or because I didn’t know how, but i started to at some point in early puberty. Anyways after some time my emotional wounds seemed to heal and I stopped watching porn as a response to negative emotion, but the habit stuck as a multiple time a week habit. Fast forward again to my first physical relationship at the age of 16 and my junk doesn’t work for multiple attempts at losing my virginity which I was frustrated with obviously. That being said I had no issues with getting erections after a couple attempts, but for the span of that relationship (about a year), but I oddly continued to struggle with reaching climax, only ever finishing a handful of times despite lots and lots of hanky panky. At the time I chalked my symptoms up to initial performance anxiety which I viewed as semi normal and the delayed ejaculation to me simply being a natural stud in the bedroom. My next relationship was mostly non sexual in nature due to religious convictions that she had. I didn’t share these convictions which led to an inevitable breakup. Anyways now your up to date to the last month of drama when, I have screwed around multiple times with a girl who may or may not become my girlfriend. And my junk has not worked despite my lack of real anxiousness. This shattered my prior theory of simple performance anxiety from past experience and led me down a research rabbit hole which brought me to this website as well as the conclusion that I have a Porn problem. And I feel stupid for not realizing sooner. I am so angry that this is something I have to deal with and I’m enraged that porn and masturbation is so normalized now that its hard to even recognize you have a problem. That Being said its thrilling to see that there is a community out there to help guys like me, and I am even more thrilled to know there is a clear path to eradicating my symptoms… it’s just gonna take some patience and discepline.
     
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  2. geminibro

    geminibro Fapstronaut

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    Recognizing it always the first big step man so good shit! Nice job on the 1 week streak, there will be harder times ahead and some chill times, but gradually I hear it all goes down as you gain confidence and strength to tell yourself No to porn. Just make sure to keep yourself distracted and plan out things you have to do in a day, the more you think of porn the more likely you're gonna do it, so just get your headspace into something completely different. Realizing urges are just feelings and that feelings constantly shift is important, it'll help thinking about that when you feel the urges are too bothersome in the moment. One thing that personally helped me get a good streak was when I marked down days off a calendar, that way I saw physical proof of progress I was making. So that might help your confidence in doing this too. Good luck and have a good year!
     
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