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A Progressive Challenge-A different kind of challenge- all levels

Discussion in 'Events & Challenges' started by DerNeuMann, Nov 13, 2017.

  1. stephanD

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    Sorry i meant psychological, not physiological. Coming up to 90 days I think my subconscious started to worry about what if I really was cured. All I'm trying to say is the 10 days before day 90 were difficult for me and while taking a break from the internet is a good thing it would be worth making a plan for coming back at least to nofap if you need to. Congratulations though, I have the best kind of jealousy.
     
  2. Single Palm Change

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    Ok, noted. I am far from being cured! But Nofap really works, and I will be rebooting until it is a way of life, second nature. And then I will keep abstaining from porn and masturbation for life. I am convinced. I might relapse, but I will never go back.
     
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  3. DerNeuMann

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    In my case, the urges about that time were clearly psychosomatic, my own psyche trying to cheat me out of the prize. Strangely enough, I just happened to go into flatline right after those arose and had no difficulty making it the rest of the way. And yes. Very exciting.
     
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  4. Wiktor.sta

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    Keep going
     
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  5. DerNeuMann

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    Great job!! I'm so pleased. Keep it going!!
     
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  6. Ezpz

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    Id also like to expand just a small bit on what @Single Palm Change said on this post. I think that weed CAN be used safely in a lot of cases and does in fact work extremely well for some people and can help boost creativity, possibly even helping with some diseases. In my opinion it is dangerous to flirt with such drugs because you know yourself to be an addict already. Not really the point i wanted to make so ill get to it.

    Cannabis is Extremely dangerous for people under the ages of 21 because it hinders the brains ability to grow. Use of such a drug at such a young age will cause life-long altered brain changes for the worse. You just really should not be doing weed at such a young age when there should be so many other things you should be doing.
     
  7. Wiktor.sta

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    Can you say something more about it. I am 16 years old male smoking sometimes.
     
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  8. Ezpz

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    Weed can effect learning, memory, motivation and mood in the brain of a teenager or person under 21. This is because it interferes with your adolescent brain in its growing and development stages. Your short term memory also suffers after long use. In short its just not good for people under 21. If you wish to look further into this i suggest youtube/google for some information
     
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  9. Wiktor.sta

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    Is there anyone having Bipolar Disorder ?
     
  10. Ezpz

    Ezpz Fapstronaut

    Yes mood swings, aggression, depression and anxiety is all common with nofap. Eventually you even out though and come out the other side feeling better than ever. The only thing you can do is see it through and these symptoms will pass. I wouldn't attribute this to bipolar though as it is only temporary
     
  11. Day one as of 9pm yesterday. Person best 4 days. Feeling more c9nfconfi than before I didn't think I would I didn't think I would have made it that far last time. Good job everyone we can do this. 1 out of seven
     
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  12. Leaveit

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    Guys Sorry to say I fell on 68th day due to YouTube videos..so I m starting my count from 1. I thought I should not come back to this site. But this site only bring me 68th day..my first goal is 10 days..

    Day 1/10..
     
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  13. stephanD

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    ..and what I *really* meant was psychosomatic, for exactly the same reason.
     
  14. stephanD

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    4 days rocks :D Well done! I don't know what time zone you're in but at 9pm tonight I'll be thinking of you, hoping your counter has ticked closer again to your goal of freedom.
     
  15. stephanD

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    Welcome back. It can be a hard thing to do, to have to reset that big number and then come show your face again, but you're 68 steps away from the crap place you started from be proud of that. Get back to it and take 10 more steps in the right direction. Rooting for you.
     
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  17. stephanD

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    ...but you are further up the hill than you were. Come on lets climb the mountain.
     
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  18. max9292

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    day 47/90. today i decided to disable my account on fb and instagram. i used them to see what my best friend does in her life as if i lived her life. it is not right before all for me because i want to live my life and it is for this motivation i started reboot, so social network is not a great utility but only a source of triggers
     
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  19. stephanD

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    I sort of got stuck reading about this because I'm home alone in front of my computer with no plans and needed something to do other than let my mind start driving me towards p land.

    Still found some interesting stuff:

    I like academic studies because although they are harder to read than a 200 word news article they don't come with a moralistic payload and are rigorous about pointing out there own shortfallings. Like this:

    http://files.iowamedicalmarijuana.org/petition/2012/Morgan_2010_2.pdf
    "First, findings suggest that the relationship between neurocognition and CU may be bidirectional"
    (CU stands for cannabis use)

    I roughly read this as: it seems people with a lower IQ tend to start using cannabis earlier so that can make it difficult to asses if early CU actually lowers your IQ. It goes on:

    "Nonetheless, the findings showed that adolescent CU was significantly associated with declines in performance on two cognitive tasks, the conditional association and CAPT, even after controlling for high school graduation and a number of other important confounders, suggesting that declines in performance could potentially be a direct result of CU on the developing brain. Note that a decline in performance was observed on the only two tasks in our battery that included a learning component, in this case, learning inductively through trial and error, a complex cognitive function related to executive function and the prefrontal cortices of the brain. It is also notable that, although it may be hard to disentangle the effects of age of onset and frequency of use in this sample, the age of onset of CU was associated with declines in the CAT (Table 3, Model 1), a finding that was confirmed by group-based analyses (see supplementary results and Tables S.3 and S.4 in the supplementary material) showing that participants who used cannabis before the age of 16 reported larger declines in performance on this task and differed significantly from nonusers. These findings, taken together with the finding that CU at 14 years (that remained constant across adolescence) was associated with declines in performance on the CAPT, suggest that age of onset does matter, providing support for the hypothesis that CU may have more detrimental neurotoxic effects on the developing brain of adolescents compared to the those on the adult brain."
    (CAPT is a test that involves trial and error learning)
    (CAT is a conditional association task)

    They define frequent use as: "using on average 6 or more times per year"

    And I haven't read this study as closly but I like the even handedness of this conclusion:

    "But it is important to stick to the evidence we have and not exaggerate the negatives of cannabis," she cautioned. "We can't tell children, 'If you smoke cannabis you're going to damage your brain massively and ruin your life.' We have to be realistic and say, 'We are finding evidence that there are some negative effects related to cannabis use, especially if you start early, and so, if you can hold off as long as you can -- at least until you're 17 -- then it's less likely there'll be an impact on your brain.'"
    https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/01/170125214606.htm
    http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1542920/1/Pingault_nihms-6440.pdf
     

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