Recent content by Awedouble

Complete fiction in your mind, I've been working full time. Not that it's relevant nor will some sideways personal attack have any real bearing on the actual point. Let me spell it out: I don't think you even know the relevance of that brain structure, it just sounds impressive to mention. Are...

You want to provide a link or say at least a little about it? Why would that be relevant or be of interest? If you think about it from the other side, would you go searching for a post if someone else posted in your thread just the title of their other post and you don't know them, without any...

Is that a sentence from the study or did you paraphrase what you consider to be the most important point? I would think what is most important would be decided by the people who actually wrote it. I directly quoted the articles concluding point, which is more likely to be what THEY consider...

There's just one little problem with that sentence, mindfulness does not mean meditation. You can be mindful going through life without ever doing a single second of meditation practice, you're just aware of whatever it is you're mindful of, that's what the word means. I don't think things...

If I was, would I have written the reply the way I did and talked about taking responsibility? The entire idea of understanding in context doesn't lend itself to only promoting the good, but it seems you did not take responsibility for reading the entire post and only want to press one point. I...

And if there are helpful things, how much of our attention is on that? Or are we not able to pay attention to the things that are helpful because it's all being squandered on the repetitive crap that's being practically force fed? Are we addicted to not only consuming that but also...

The lack of media literacy on multiple levels is costing us, and thinking it is just "being informed" and that you can just use the simplistic approach of having less of it is like the simplistic view of abstinence only with addiction recovery without lifestyle changes. And nobody will have...

You may have to start challenges there. If everyone ever did was wait until there was already a community doing the things they need then it wouldn't happen, and given the challenges you've created here you may just be the person to do that. There's the NoSurf subreddit and Discord server. I'm...

My point is you have to look at whether it is a problem for you, those are just examples. For example some people quite drinking but they smoke, you can criticize them for not quitting smoking but smoking doesn't land them in jail, they don't end up in some far away place not knowing where their...

Accountability Partner. You can see there's a forum section dedicated to finding partners, but of course ideally it's about more than accountability but also support, which means getting to know each other a bit. There are also official NoFap plans that involves weekly calls online, there's a...

Well this really works both ways. If you can have a sleep streak of even a few days I'd say you have a better chance of not acting out with PMO. I think a lot of people think of the causation as one way but just flip that around and even though each of these things may not be as strong of a pull...

You mentioned more support, the most obvious thing would be to look into APs but also APs that are keen on these kinds of practices. Also it's another thing to do some introspection and figure out how not to act out and catch our feelings before that happens, to have APs that are sensitive to...

It's a simple point but addiction of any kind numbs us. And if isn't just a matter of drowning out bad feelings, it's everything.

Sure there could be different reasons for it, PMO being one factor. I liked that you tracked how long it lasted and that kind of information can be useful down the line. BTW the shake might be the way the body deals with that so it's not necessarily a bad thing.

I'm sorry it worked out that way, maybe it's more that she didn't care as deeply as you hoped than that she didn't understand. Which is not to say she didn't care at all, but that she didn't want to invest in the relationship that much.