[Must Read] How PMO Ruined My Life, and Can Ruin Yours

Hello Fapstronauts! This is your comrade, Bravehart. I am back with another article on how PMO ruined my life, and how it is dangerous, both physically and and mentally.

I started my PMO session at the age 12. It is the time when your actions are driven not by your thoughts but by hormones. Teenage, in my definition, is a period of 7-8 years of vulnerability, where any bad influence can ruin you and your life. Well, for me, the bad influence was peers and PMO.

I don't want this article to be an autobiography of my teenage life. So, I'll cut it short and try as much as I can to make this article short and readable.

So, how PMO affected my life? Here goes nothing.

• It ruined my self confidence. I started looking down upon myself as a degenerate human being. It grew to such an extent that whenever I orgasmed, the 'momentary pleasure' was followed by regrets; lots and lots of regrets.

• Each PMO session made my mentality a bit more shallower. Each PMO session made me a bit more misogynistic. A time came in my life when I started percieving women as 'objects of sex'. When I realized how wrong I was thinking, and how shallow my mentality had become, I started hating myself a whole lot more.

• Each PMO session I went through was draining my body of essential proteins and hormones necessary for the development of my body. But despite knowing it, I kept on maintaining an ignorant attitude. I kept going with PMO. Well, it DID do me a lot of physical and monetary damage.

• A lot of PMO, affects you mentally and emotionally. Well, I was affected, both mentally and emotionally. Though the damage isn't permanent, but a damage is a damage. They don't say precaution is better than cure for no reason.

• I am from a very religious family. I was taught from a young age that God is always with you, and that He watches over every deed of yours. Now, just try to think how religiously guilty I must have felt after each PMO session! Well then, what the stupid, lusty me did? The lusty me decided to become Atheist! This, I think was the worst step out all. This was like the last nail in the coffin. By giving up on my faith, I engaged on a journey of self destruction.

• I engaged myself in ½-1 hr of PMO daily for about 7 years. This means, I lost about 2-3 months of my life into something that was actually ruining my life despite knowing that IT WAS RUINING MY LIFE!

You wanna know when I realized all this? Yesterday. It was yesterday that I realized what heinous crime I was committing against myself. The first thing I did after the self-realization was that I sat in my room, alone, and cried. Those who think men don't cry, y'all are prejudiced, hypocritical cancers in this society (just like I was. Once.) I cried my heart out.
Then like a man, I decide that I had to change. I had to change for good.

And that's how, I embarked on a journey to bring a change within myself, this time, for good, for my betterment.

You may think how can a guy change that quick? It's impossible! Yada yada.....

Well, a time comes in everyone's life, a flashpoint. A time when your whole life appears in front of you like a movie. It is a time when you judge yourself, unbiasedly. The time usually comes when a person is on death-bed. I think my God gave me that chance a little early. He gave me a chance to make amends with my life. That time, I couldn't be a foolish to let go a golden chance. And let me tell you, I didn't act foolishly.

I chose life over lust, myself over masturbation, and God over 'momentary' good.

Now all those things that happened with me, happens with others too. This is how PMO affects your life. But I guess those who are here already know this. Those here have gone through this too. A lot of 'those' have successfully defeated their addiction, or will surely defeat it. But those who haven't, those who often relapse, for those comrades I have an advice. You have to go through the stage of flashpoint, the stage of self-realization. Once you go through that stage, you'll feel that you no longer need PMO. You'll feel youself filled with a new energy, just like I did.

"But then Bravehart, you are just a noob. Its been just a day into nofap for you and you are making such big claims! Wait till you feel the 'urges'. Then speak to us."– Probably most of my readers.

Well, about the urges, my balls are hurting really bad today. For almost a quarter of my day, I was aroused. My body wanted PMO, real bad. What I did? I read the Holy Bible. The more I read it, the calmer I became. Now, after a hefty and breaking-bad day, finally, I don't feel any urges. My balls still hurt, but now, I don't feel like I need a PMO.
Friends, religion/faith in God really helps in the fight against addiction. All those comrades who aren't Atheist are advised by me to read a holy scripture. Any holy scripture will do. It needn't be a holy scripture from the religion you follow. It can just be any religious book.

Also, another advice- The women you feel yourself aroused by or attracted to, the women that make you break your NoFap streak, LOOK THEM IN THE EYES AND NOT ON THEIR ASS/BOOBS. WHENEVER YOU SEE THEM, TRY NOT TO THINK ABOUT THEM AS SEXUAL OBJECTS. TRY TO THINK THAT THEY ARE YOUR FELLOW BEAUTIFUL HUMAN BEINGS. THIS WILL HELP.

Thank you for reading this and best of luck.

 

Thanks a lot my friend for your words of encouragement.