Lies our brains tell us so we relapse

Same....my mind plays tricks on me to oh edging wont hurt you can look at sexy pics that are not porn and you wont watch this time. Just dumb stuff like that. For many years i actually believed those lies my brain and addictoin told me. Just today i had a close call i was listining to podcasts and one of the podcast had a somewhat very suggestive picture that i saw and i told myself long as it aint porn it'll be ok right.......WRONG becuase i felt sensatoins down bellow. And started thinking it wouldnt be so bad to relapse. And then i stoppped said a prayer got my strength and closed the music app, then when i was sure i wouldnt fail i decided to delete the app all together if it has "album art" that is sexually suggestive in any way....thats a hole in the armour that i dont need.

 

We all here are like sailors, we're sailing on a dangerous and unknown sea, the pornstars are the mermaids, and we must avoid them at any cost, otherwise, they'll make us drown in our own "pleasure" and sink through the darkness forever.

 

My mind does the same. Good to know I’m not alone

 

The big one for me is "I can handle just one session without slipping back into compulsive porn watching".

When I tried quitting in the early stages of my recovery, I would always manage to abstain from porn for a few days and then my addict gremlin would say something like "See? You can make it a few days without porn. Now you know you can watch it again without slipping back into your addictive pattern." However, it never really worked out that way. I would watch porn again in just one isolated session, but it was never isolated. That one session wasn't enough, and after a few more days I would always find myself hopelessly controlled by porn again.

I would define the beginning of a relapse as the point where your brain says: "You've got this, man. You can handle just a little peek."

 

Check out this thread https://www.nofap.com/forum/index.p...ys-or-pathetic-things-the-addict-says.150682/