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Struggling to really change my mindset

Discussion in 'Rebooting - Porn Addiction Recovery' started by blews, Jul 29, 2018.

  1. blews

    blews Fapstronaut

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    Im on day 29 now and starting to struggle with urges. My urges are kept under control pretty well where I will still never act on them but they have been coming more frequently.

    What caused me to really want to make a change and fully commit to nofap is realizing not just my addiction to porn, but my behavior in tending to oversexualise everything. For me a huge trigger is TV and social media. The social media trigger is obvious but while watching TV, what triggers me is literally seeing any attracrive actress. Before nofap my first instinct would be to look up the actress and see if they have ever been naked, and then that would lead me to porn. Ive obviously stopped looking but recently when watching TV and movies these urges have been getting stronger and stronger. Now its also starting to affect how I think about girls in real life again, like how I was before nofap.

    For the first two weeks of nofap this was not even a problem for me. I stopped oversexualising everything and didnt have any urges, but i was also going through a flatline. Now my libido is sort of returning but my urges are returning too. I dont have any fear of relapsing but Im just wondering if anyone had any advice to really try to change the way I think. More so than my addiction to porn I truly realise my mindset equally the problem, and what I thought was easy to fix originally is becoming a big problem for me again.

    I know that in the end it doesnt matter and I shouldnt see women as just sexual beings, but its honestly pretty hard not to. Ive been also recently struggling with the chaser effect after having sex or oral sex, so i think thats also playing a big role in me getting urges. Im just worried about how this affects me and possibly me recovering from PIED, because even if I can stay away from P and M, my state of mind doesnt seem to have made any real progress. Will this just stop over time if i keep maintaining nofap?
     
  2. Smiletron

    Smiletron Fapstronaut

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    It will improve over time bro try not to think into it too hard , and even so why would you want to go back to having sex with yourself over pixels.
     
  3. Bruskiy

    Bruskiy Fapstronaut

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    The brain starts a rewiring process to heal your brain after quitting porn. The longer you stay away from porn the more your brain forgets all the sexual images you have watched. As soon as you start watching porn again you backtrack and reset a large amount of time that you have spent rewiring. Anyways, eventually your state of mind will go back to normal it just takes time. The brain returns back to normal after a certain amount of time has past depending on how severe your porn addiction was. In my opinion I think it takes at least a year for any porn addict to fully recover. If you go 90 days I can almost guarantee your mindset will change significantly. Just keep going you got this!
     
  4. Shah Rukh

    Shah Rukh Fapstronaut

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    Im suffering now adays, very badly, my testosterone level is 600 ng/dl and im 21 still my sex drive is dead, dont know what to do, yesterday when i went to bathroom for passing urine, i was feeling burning and white crystals came out
     

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