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wish i can stop relapsing (story about me)

Discussion in 'Abstinence, Retention, and Sexual Transmutation' started by TheCarver, Mar 9, 2024.

  1. TheCarver

    TheCarver Fapstronaut

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    i lasted 126 days is my longest streak and was so disappointed in myself when i decided edge (and i usually cant control edging) but it wasn’t really edging as i wasn’t really reaching down inside my pants and stroking, i was waking up on a saturday morning while rubbing myself against the bed and boom! brain couldn’t take it anymore and relapsed. went another go and this time i only lasted 16 days which is funny, you figure with that long streak that my next go would be even longer breaking the habit. but i guess this is really a tough addiction to break. and i dont have any addiction to porn whatsoever, and i dont really see how you can have an addiction to something you “watch” over something like controlling my body, just doesn’t make much sense to me. same thing as saying people having an addiction to video games, how? would you even get withdrawals from something like that if you quit? i just can’t relate to any of that. i admit i play video games everyday but thats mostly out of boredom having no friends and barely going out anywhere due to the fact im still inexperienced at driving and having social anxiety and just being nervous in every single social situation as something as simple as making a phone call. cant approach a single girl and stuck with crippling fear of approaching a stranger which i thought nofap would of helped at 126 days but i guess it just works for everybody else in nofap community besides the 10 percent of people.

    but yeah i implemented cold showers which works a little, exercising on and off mainly because i have a sleeping disorder that i cant figure out whats going on waking up a couple of times a night and waking up feeling tired as hell, and i have to wake up at 6 in the morning for my job and even when i have more time to sleep on the weekend, i feel the same - feel like i haven’t slept at all. and it feels like im overall on edge all the time and my social anxiety is worst. got 2 sleep studies done with everything normal but going back to the doctor to see what else could be going on.
     
  2. shorty1

    shorty1 Fapstronaut

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    ...well....I'm still a newbie at this...this time.I saw the website a few months ago but didn't give it much thought...until this time...when I began to be scared about the fact that "Is this going to be my life forever-masturbating and being dependent on porn to arouse me?"....so I came back here and started to follow the program.The excuse I had before following the program was that"since I dont do much exercises,PMO would help my heart and body"....can you beleive that....haha. I now know if I relapse,It might scare me and make me think that this shit will definetly ruin my future and my life!!I also work the 12 steps here;Maybe you can look into that bro.Mind you, every day I look at myself in the mirror and being that I have a skateboarder body style(I,I think of me doing it but ,in my opinion,as fas as my recovery is concerned,I want to improve my overall life and still have a future even though this addiction did destroy my future through college and in society.This has caused me alot of emotional hurts,and I want to sucumb from all this....yeah bro......
     
  3. TheCarver

    TheCarver Fapstronaut

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    emotional hurts? like what, as far as people tell here theres no scientific evidence that masturbating is that bad for you.
     
  4. shorty1

    shorty1 Fapstronaut

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    I'm not an authority in this.I'm basing all this on personal interactions and as to how it affected me emotionally, and it was not all positive.Masturbation in itself is physical exertion.But it's co-dependent on the addictive factors-seeing porn or imagining yourself as the "porn star'-so to speak, the mental conditioning of sexual arousal in being dependent on feeling dirty with that addictive state. And no, haven't seen any research done specifically done on this.
     

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