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Frustration is my biggest trigger. What is yours?

Discussion in 'Rebooting - Porn Addiction Recovery' started by Deleted Account, Oct 2, 2017.

  1. Today I found out that frustration is my biggest trigger and it is amazing to know what should I be fighting next. It is so silly to finally figure it out. I just got frustrated because my gym "shorts" was ripped and instantaneously my mind went to "just do not go today... stay home watch some P and MO, just to take the edge off".

    It sounds like bs but it was actually like that, then I calmed myself down and went looking for a needle but there was none and my mind started again "Come on you know you want it. You deserve it! Just go for it!!!".

    Then I became unhappy with my life, body and everything, I was ashamed that I wasted my life and felt like nothing mattered anymore... however I did not relapsed and now I feel sad still but I overcame something and in doing so I learned a bit more about myself, everyone talks about learning something about themselves but that was an "Aha" moment.

    I always start PMO when I am frustrated or expecting to be rejected/disappointed. What is your biggest emotional trigger?
     
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  2. JakeWoods

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    There is a few things that can set me off. By far the biggest one is boredom.
     
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  3. My Biggest trigger by far would have to be boredom
     
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  4. NewManV

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    Stress does it for me. Which is ironic, because PMO makes me more late on deadlines and things, and then I'm stressed even more. Go figure.
     
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  5. Stress and frustration definitely for me. PMO was my "escape" from the tough times for years. Delusional I was.
     
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  6. My biggest trigger is testing my erection. Want to make sure it still can. Yeah it sounds stupid. It is the reason of my relapses and I came a point weeks ago that I don't need to worry, let it heal. I am still on the flatline and have no thoughts on testing my erection. My second trigger would probably be frustrated then stress.
     
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  7. NewManV

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    I forgot about that, yeah testing was (still is) my urges. And it's dumb, because before I began this rebooting journey, I would try masturbating (at least without porn), and I feel the erections weren't as hard because I'm focusing on the erection instead of sensation (or imagining a woman). It's a self-fulfilling prophesy, and does nothing but stress and make it worse.
     
  8. Absolute facts right here. Life is better Masturbation free.
     
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  9. LightningBolts

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    My biggest trigger is saying no to the smallest temptation. Every single time my mind says "Come on just watch it once it wont hurt" always gets to me and I hate it. I have failed so many times because of it.
     
  10. That is a weird cycle our brains are really screwed up
     
  11. For it is a escape too but the sad truth is that it only masks those feelings.
     
  12. Erection testing it is a real problem because once you are in that state it is tough to get back. Edging it never a good idea. Thanks for sharing I was thinking about something like that and now I know I should not do it.
     
  13. Physicist

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    Attack your weaknesses!

    My biggest ones are boredom and putting myself in a place where I'm alone.
     
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  14. What kind of frustration? i ask, cause i wrote about being frustrated by women was a topic in my last posting
     
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  15. Yeah being alone makes everything really hard, that is for sure a big trigger
     
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    I noticed that any type of frustation and not just by women causes me to think about PMO. Whenever something goes wrong or will go wrong I default to PMO.
     
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  17. its a valve. litteraly a trigger. you can get rid of the stress.... to feel even worse after. Its our concept of sexuality, or finally of everything: as an measn to an aim. A tool. Things are "supposed to make us feel good." No matter what. Thats the one-dimensional-hedonistic-routine that enslaves us.
     
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  18. I guess that is why motivational speakers tells us to seek disconfort. I think that trying to get rid of stress would be like trying hard to forget something it will get stuck even more. My goal with NoFap is to understand and embrance stress and disconfort but boy that is hard, harder then anything I have ever done.
     
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  19. MLMVSS

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    My biggest triggers are boredom, stress, and my oversensitivity issues. Even the process of taking a leak sets me off because of extremely heightened sensations, and I don't really know how to fix that.
     
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  20. For me it is boredom, and frustration about my life. As a perfectionist I sometimes wonder how I have nothing to show for it, you know. This bubbles up and then I escape it through PMO.
     

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