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My Struggle

Discussion in 'New to NoFap' started by Iscariot, Nov 30, 2017.

  1. Iscariot

    Iscariot Fapstronaut

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    Hi everyone, I don’t know why it took me so long to finally start an account here. I suppose I thought that I could beat it alone, but reading some stories here I finally feel safe sharing my own with people who can truly understand who I am. It’s a bit of a long story but bear with me.

    I am young, only 18, and I have been plagued by masturbation my entire life. When I was 6, I was molested by a group of 6th graders in the back of them bus. This went on for perhaps half of the school year. During my time with them, they would touch me inappropriately, and teach me how good it was to touch myself. Even worse, they had me often pretend I was a girl during this time. They treated me as such, and made me feel special, and wanted. Yet they would sometimes threaten me, make me swear to not reveal any of this. They instilled a fear of disappointment and failure within me, as well as a submissive nature. It ended when they left the school, and I was left alone. When the bullying started, the only relief at the end of the school day was going home and mastubating. It made me feel... safe, warm. It took away the stresses of my chaotic home life, and the constant anxiety that I soon developed. All of my life, I have been trapped in a state of either anxiety or depression, the two serpents that slither through my mind, they create an endless cycle of pain that I can’t escape.The depression and shame always sets in after the masturbation, and time without it causes anxiety.

    Yet, I spent my life not remembering the molestation. I believe I had blocked it out. It only occurred to me after I had watched what was called a sissy hypno, during this summer. For those of you who don’t know what that is, it is a video designed to trap you within your own mind with rapid images of dicks and beautiful women, to trick you into believing that you are attracted to the male genitals, and that you are in fact a girl trapped within a mans body that must have sex with men and transition. For me, not knowing myself, always being extremely scrawny, unconfident, and submissive to my own sexuality, I was hooked. I had never watched gay porn before, but I had already been on a path with regular porn, hentai, then transwomen, traps, and now this. SHs are powerful, because they offer me an escape. A vision of a world where I have no pain, where I am finally desired. My mind often goes blank, like I’m in a trance. I can feel myself screaming within my own mind sometimes to stop, and sometimes I will. Precumming while viewing sissy pictures will sometimes give me a brief window of clarity, but I always fall back in with a powerful, mind numbing orgasm that leaves me shattered, depressed, and loathing myself.

    I tell you all of this because I need a way out. I have sometimes researched eunachism, and if that is the right path for me. I have looked into drugs, I have thought of slicing off my own genitals just to never feel trapped within my own mind again. Suicide is a constant option, the idea that I can escape this cycle of madness.

    I workout regularly, and focus my anger out on the weights while visualizing this foe. I have been able to make it 5 days without masturbating ever since my intense workouts, so I believe this helps.

    If anyone has any advice or shared experience, feel free to let me know.
     
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  2. Tryingto

    Tryingto Fapstronaut

    Welcome @Iscariot.

    Though our ages differ considerably (I'm early 50s), our experiences are broadly similar. Like you, I was abused (in a variety of ways) while very young. Like you, I found a safe, warm escape in touching myself then masturbating then porn then... Like you, the whole situation became utterly hellish and I feared there were no alternatives beyond either giving myself to the hell or suicide.

    Well, today I can tell you there are alternatives and, congratulations, you found one of them!

    Were I to offer any advice, it might look like this: Go slow and be in this for the long haul. It is going to be hard and it is going to get better. Use every resource available to you here - read and write and reflect. Seek out other resources as well; I attend an in-person recovery group and personal therapy in addition to coming here. Be kind to yourself. Be patient. Be honest.
     
  3. Iscariot

    Iscariot Fapstronaut

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    Thank you. I have recently become more and more forgiving of myself in my workouts, forgiving past bullies, my father. I can feel it making a better impact on my mind than just raging and letting fury control my mind as I lift. Christianity has always been a part of my life, but it has grown to a much higher place in my heart as I’ve been walking this path of self discovery. I hope that one day I will be ready for something like therapy, but I will learn as much as I can from others on this site.
     
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  4. Yanis

    Yanis Fapstronaut

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    Welcome to the Nofap community.
    It’s sad to read a story like yours. When you were a very small boy you just wanted to be happy. And the more you grew up the more craziness passed your way.
    So we all have our own individual past and we all have the chance to realize the reason we came into this world: true happiness, peace inside.

    You found this website, you registered and postet here. Congratulations! Asking for help sometimes is the best start for a change in life. I am sure in this community you will be respected.
    You are a wonderful person and getting rid of addiction will help you to accept and like yourself. It doesn’t matter which sexual orientation you have - what really matters is that your life is very, very precious and there is a divine spark inside of you which makes you most lovable.

    The NO PMO journey is not easy but worth the effort.
    The community will support you.
    Good luck!
    And all is well.
     
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  5. Hi Iscariot,
    I've only been here for 2 days, so I don't really feel I have the right to say anything yet. From what you write, there are many similarities in our path: sexual abuse at a young age, abuse at home, bullying at school. Although I am a lot older than you (47) I have also felt all of the "solutions" you have imagined in my past: cutting off genitals, suicide, etc. However, I discovered that, if I did any of this, I would just be hurting myself like the people who hurt me in the past and who got me to the miserable, self-loathing situation in which I now was. I was not going to help them abuse me!
    You are a wonderful person who deserves to be loved. Try to accept yourself as you are, even if that is not who you expected to become. You are just fine as you are and you will find someone who loves you exactly how you are and with everything that happened to you in the past. I did - we have been married for 22 years and she knows all my dark secrets, but accepts and loves me just how I am.
    Peace.
     
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  6. Iscariot

    Iscariot Fapstronaut

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    Thank you. I’ve found that the most damaging part of all of this is the lifelong isolation, the feeling that no one will understand what I go through, and that them knowing will forever alter their perspective of me and fill it with disgust or pity. Just knowing that there are others like me, who have made it through their dark times and have come out better people, gives me hope.
     
  7. Hoffman25

    Hoffman25 Fapstronaut

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    I’m new to nofap as well and have a similar struggle, although I never suffered abuse. It takes courage to share your story and overcoming the shame is a big part of beginning to heal. Exercise is a big part of my life too. One thing it does is help me become connected to my body in a healthy way. It also gets me out of my own head and continual mental obsessions and leaves me feeling more accomplished. It’s a battle to work out and do something active everyday but I’ve never felt disappointed with myself afterwards. Can’t say the same when I choose not to. Keep going one day at a time.
     
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  8. Tryingto

    Tryingto Fapstronaut

    All of this - your faith and commitment to learn - lays a great base for recovery. Best of luck!
     
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