With a girl you like then? If you see that you have ED because of edging your motivation will rise 1000% to end this completely. Thats what got me motivated. But maybe you wont have ED, which would be good.
You train your brain 6h/week to only be aroused when watching P. What happens when your brain should be aroused to a woman? It says no way, this is not what I am conditioned to do.
sex is not my priority..........i am quitting this addiction to become happy and confident and to get a job
Fantasizing will lead to a relapse. Just like peeking it's the first step of the mistake. I've done it many times and regret it every time.
Porn is actually making a sexual scenarious on the brain and when mammals sexually aroused, their brain starting to push dopamine. We wired liked that. Porn leads sexual thoughts, and sexual thought release dopamine. Dopamine is releasing not just having actual sex, if you are thinking about sex, your brain release dopamine and this chemical encourages us to having sex. Probably you have experience this: You have craving to watch porn, and thanks to hypofrontality you can't stop, you start to type porn on the web, and even any porn website before opening you feel high. That's how mechanism works when I every relapsed. So, as an addict who use porn for a decade I think the best way to quit porn is this "https://yourbrainrebalanced.com/for...ousal-method-celibacy-of-body-and-mind.14525/. Yes I found the no arousal method the best way to recover. If you think about porn or sex, your brain releases a little dopamine, not too much like watching a tube site but its has similar effects on the brain. Fantasising does not help to recover from porn, because when you fantasise you are still using. Of course we wired liked that but don't let it become 30 minutes of sex opera in your brain. Good luck on your journey!
I'm confused by this thread. You say you are not Masturbating but that you are Edging. But edging is masturbation. Do you mean to say that you are masturbating but not having orgasms? Why aren't you having orgasms? Are you unable too because of too much edging? I would recommend that you should be abstaining from P, M and F during your recovery. Any one of them will surely escalate into the others. If you are relapsing every 10-15 days then your recovery plan is not working. What is your plan currently? Let us know and perhaps we will have some advice for improving it so that you may succeed in the future.
yes...i think you are right because in month of april i was porn free.....but i was fantasizing heavily and there was some brain fog..... but my point is........if we handle ourselves during fantasizing......then we can defeat porn addiction............if we train our brain to not watch porn..........no matter how strong the urges are.........no matter how much we are thinking about sex......then i think its a step to cure porn addiction...........but i do believe fantasising slows down our recovery......fastest way to reboot is the hard mode.........without any sexual thoughts...........but its damn difficult.........a little slip shatters us... i will sure check this thread you posted.... actually sometimes i deliberately fantasize........just to "test" myself to not watch psubs or porn....... but i think now i will avoid it thanks
here edging does not mean masturbating.........edging is of three types..... mine is when you continously watch porn without touching yourself........ yes i will try to avoid fantasizing ...... my recovery plan consist of two ideologies.....whenever i relapse on one then i shift to another...........in this way i oscillate between two methods........ i have also made some coping skills to deal with negative emotions.....