What made you try to quit PMO?

Doing m at work. Too much free time

 

PIED

 

I can't enjoy life to the fullest when using P. Everything I experience is not at its best: love, sex, mental abilities, non-romantic relationships, connection to God, self respect.... everything.

Being on P means you're automatically hurting so many areas of your life. It hurts your life too much to stay on the poison.

 

The complete and utter lack of a libido, coupled with HOCD.

 

It comes in the way of me living as my highest self.

 

Curiosity - Ive heard about NoFap for a while. And my desire to get rid of all my addictions at once. I ended PMO, smoking cigarettes and smoking marihuana all in a same day. I believe its a specific constelation of stars which get me this "kick" when I feel its right time to do big things - there was no real trigger in my daily life, just a feeling that the time has come, so I did it.

 

The realization that PMO had limited me in every area of my life. That I was less mentally sharp because of PMO, less creative, less friendly, less concerned about others, less attentive to my wife, less physically healthy, less mentally and physically strong, less motivated to learn new skills, less productive at work. Furthermore, I realized that as long as I had PMO in my life, I would never attain more than mediocrity in any area.

That's what motivated me to quit, and what will hopefully keep me from ever returning to it.

 

Thank you so much for sharing.

This is EXACTLY how I feel. It creeps into all areas of your life.

At one point I was focusing on just how it made me feel about myself. In college, I met an awesome girl. But, I just didn't feel I was "worthy" of going out with her. I felt slimy. I felt no good. I felt "lesser-than" because of the addiction in my life. If I'm remembering correctly, this was the first time in my life when I strongly started looking at how much it was a problem for me. I went 30 days (or maybe it was 29) without PMO at the time. It was my longest streak ever up to that point.

I've realized though it's so much more than just how I feel about myself. It's practically impacting everything. My life isn't perfect today. I mean.... I woke up this morning on a Saturday not really feeling great. Was in a bit of an emotional funk. However, it would be worse if I was PMO'ing. Yesterday, a co-worker I liked at work was a bit cold towards me. How did I take it? I just left the situation and went back to my desk. Didn't feel great but didn't feel too bad either. If I had PMO in my life I would have felt like complete shit.

PMO just hinders every aspect of your life you can think of. That's why I hate it so much.

 

I know exactly what you mean. There have been times in my life when I've tried to rationalize it. Things like, "Well, maybe if I only PMO twice a week, it might make me feel a little depressed, but everything should be okay."

While it might seem reasonable, it just doesn't work. PMO truly does diminish you in every way.

Thanks for sharing your experience as well, and I'm glad to hear you're doing better.

 

Every time I do it, I regret it and stay thinking about my friend family and crush

 

It helped me down rabbit holes I should have stayed well clear from...

Lost my best friend, love of my life, family, finances and potentially liberty.

I have to quit it now so that one day I can look myself in the mirror and not feel disgusted, then everything else will follow.

 

I've spent way too much touching my dick and watching other people have sex. I don't have a huge vendetta against porn, but with limited time on this earth, I wanna use it more wisely. Also all the stuff I hear about it fucking up your reward system and causing all kinds of mental health issues, ehhhh not worth it.

 

really really bad pied. Like, I think I've finished with a girl only twice in my entire life. I donnu why it took me till my 20s to realize that porn was a problem but I'm still glad to have discovered this site. Once I started to go long periods without porn, a lot of things started to make sense -- all the breakups, the lack of focus, the anxiety, the isolation, it messed up a lot of things for me. But I'm happy to be here today, trying to get better, but I can't help but feel intense regret for how I played my cards here

 

It ruined my life in every aspect. I lost many good chances to improve myself, to be successful, but because of this I don't have enough of time and energy to do them. I want to have a better life, better than ordinary, for this I will never give up fighting until I finally overcome this prob.

 

-PIED
-I was getting very tricky to get nudes from girls on online websites, even made some of them dance for me and stuff, tellign them lies like its a contest or sendin false money transfers, had second phone card ... I started doing that after failures on online sites to get revenge on stupid girls . Fuck it was fun, i was really good at it. But it torn me apart into 2 sides : dark and light. I started being very creepy around people, aggressive, moody...felt like they gonna catch me what I do in nights.... I decided to be happy I need to cut the dark part from my life ..
-Sadness, boredom, no interest in anything but sex and drinking

 

PIED. And realizing I was looking at progressively harder shit I would never even try in real life...

 

I'm a Christian who doesn't really believe that masturbation is BAD, but rather it's not beneficial to me or the way that I think about others. It's become an addiction and I really don't want to be controlled by anything, especially something as passing as masturbation.

 

Realizing and understanding that I simply did not like it but somehow couldn't stop.

 

I'm trying to quit because PMO is affecting my confidence, my creativity, my self-esteem, and my ability to open my third eye.