After 72 days, I slipped. But I am getting back up.

Hey man, I've been there plenty of times. If it was easy to quit, then we wouldn't have this great website. I'm in University right now as well and yes classes are picking for me as well.

But back to the point. The following week has been going very smoothly and I really have no urge to watch P right now even though no one is looking and it's 10:00 at night. So here are the things I've been doing to help me this week:

-Keep reminding yourself that you're in this 100 day long battle. If you don't remind yourself, then you'll feel as if it's not important anymore. To remind myself I did this,
http://pmo-tracker.appspot.com/about/labs

-Think in the terms of the future. Before browsing online for P (which is my biggest trigger for Ming & Oing), get into the habit of thinking of yourself a day from now: you're walking on campus knowing what terrible things you did yesterday, you don't want to live with that feeling. Don't do something that you wouldn't tell anyone else in person.

-My final personal tip, always remind yourself of what kind of person you want to be in life (This is similar to my first and second tips btw). Always remind yourself that it's not impossible and that you can become the person who overcame the odds.

This is a long and tough battle, and this will be your final reset, promise me that.

Good luck in school and keep fighting and thinking

 

This is serious advice, sounds funny but it will work trust me.
Keep some bengay near your bed or where you may normally pmo or mo or whatever. When we get that temptation, dab just a little bengay on your scrotum, I wouldn't be brave enough to go for the penis, but seriously. One time I accidently just got some close because my leg was really sore. I probably spent 15 minutes in the shower trying to wash it off. Doesn't do any damage but definetly not comfortable. You will definetly not be MOing or anything with bengay on your balls, guaranteed.

 

I dont think torturing oneself is a good way. You're preventing the problem. Not treating or resolving the problem.

 

Hey,
So sorry to hear about your relapse after such a good and long streak. But it's good that you are picking yourself up and not giving in to discouragement.

Looking at your profile, you only have 6 posts. For someone who has been on nofap for 6 months, that's very low indeed. From my short experience here, most people who seem to relapse after a good streak are those who don't contribute much and give to others. It's a known factor in addiction recovery that in order to keep your own sobriety you need to be giving back what you've got. Many people here sign up, begin the challenge and only come back to read other's posts and do not do much to share and offer advice to others. That isolation almost always leads to relapse. I would advice you to consider posting at least twice a day in the first two weeks, cutting down to once a day on week three, and then to minimum twice a week from the fourth week onward. It's only as we give back that we can maintain what we already have.

Make it a point of engaging mostly with newbies, acknowledging their posts and offering some guidance. I know you are a student, but time spent working of recovery from addiction is better spent than time on Facebook and Youtube or other social media.

If I were you I would begin a personal journal and write my feelings and thoughts as often as possible.Good luck

 

We all know the pain for we probably experienced it too many times and yes, we do feel like we betrayed ourselves at that moment. And even if you give your K9 password to your friend that can't prevent you from PMO if you really want it. Because I had it in a similar way..and it's not hard to google the way of bypassing K9..
Harming yourself definitely isn't the solution because this problem has thick roots. Me and you have similar goals and challenge. I hope that we can both talk on new year eve about how our problem is solved. in the meantime we should minimize fantasizing and negative input at all. I realize now that people who are muscular aren't actually strong. Strong people are ones who can control their urges.