porn addiction and dating apps

so the point is that i relapsed on nofap today morning. i use dating apps on nofap instead of watching porn and i know that is wrong and detrimental to my mental health, but I used to think it will help me cope with the loneliness and emptiness that i have inside of me.

i feel like i am wrong all that dating apps have done is make me feel even more left out, lonely and hollow as a person, mix it with my porn addiction and it becomes an explosive mixture.

it makes you look at a woman's physique more than necessary the about section is just a few lines and the pics occupy the whole profile and they're designed in such a way so as to create thirst traps, it used to make me turn to porn again, so finally after 2 years of convincing myself that i can use dating apps and do nofap together and then relapsing nearly everyday i realize i need to kick this vice out of my life and then start afresh. some of you might say that it's a person's perspective about using an app but what i feel is that while on a practice such as nofap one should just cutoff from all stimuli which even mildly reminds us of porn, else it can trigger a real bad relapse that it did yesterday.

i fapped like twice....i feel ashamed about it. i was plan to go into semen retention now that i know it's much more strict and is meant to preserve vitality and energy which i very much need in my academic life.

(this was supposed to be on nofap reddit but was removed from there so i ended up posting it on this forum.)