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NoFap making me a porn addict?

Discussion in 'Rebooting - Porn Addiction Recovery' started by Dan9876, Nov 14, 2018.

  1. Dan9876

    Dan9876 Fapstronaut

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    hello

    I joined NoFap 3 weeks ago. My problem was masturbation. Porn was never an issue. My use of porn was to facilitate masturbation. I could easily replace it with a picture of a hot girl i know or an actress or even without anything at all. In fact, when i joined NoFap i was already on a good streak without porn.

    NoFap.com was a life changer for me. It felt unbelievably easy to abstain from masturbation since the day i joined. I kept going till day 14 without MO and day 23 without porn before a bad relapse.

    After that relapse, porn has become a really strong urge for me. My feeling is as if i am discovering porn for the first time in my life. So much that i even thought about deleting this account (as if NoFap was the evil and not porn)

    I’m now struggling to hold on for 2 days straight. (I guess it has got a lot to do with me abandoning this community and trying to do it myself too. So I have decided to be active here again, log in twice everyday and share in others’ struggles and also update my journal)

    In the meantime, has anyone gone through a similar situation? What did you do about it? Thanks in advance for the help
     
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  2. Sounds to me like you secretly want what you have denied yourself. Replace that 'must not watch porn' in your mind with something more positive, like, 'no one says I should watch porn.' See the difference? A lot of this really involves perspective, and an unhealthy one can sometimes have the opposite effect. So instead of thinking you are forbidding yourself to watch porn, tell yourself you are getting rid of something that has oppressed your freedom. This will help you feel better about your decision to quit porn, and watching it should become less of a kick.
     
  3. maz20

    maz20 Fapstronaut

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    IMO porn is not the problem; it is just a red herring. Are you having actual sex in the meantime too? If not, then what you're experiencing is just the effect of relapsing having temporarily strained your sex drive by abstaining from sexual gratification for a while. In other words, you just became somewhat or slightly more sensitive to sexual stimuli in general, but without having had your sex drive too degraded by that abstinence in the meantime so far**

    (**Not to sound heretical against NoFap but superpowers obtained through abstinence are not really "sustainable" IMO. You either fap, have sex, or just end up losing sex drive simply due to the lack of feedback on it (what's often here referred to as "flatline"))
     
    Last edited: Nov 17, 2018
  4. I can totally relate. Been thinking of stepping away from nofap too buddy. PM me if you want to chat
     

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