Hey ya'll, after a long, unnecessary hiatus from Nofap, I've decided to come back and give it another go. I've been gone for awhile and things have gone from ok to bad to downright shitty. Ever since my 64 day streak ended 4 years ago in July, followed by a 22 day streak and various other streaks ranging from 1-14 days, eventually I stopped keeping track and fell back into my old habits. I've realized that this problem has become an addiction that has been slowly festering for those 4 years and its hold on me is stronger than ever. I needed to bust a nut just so I could sleep last night and I've built up another collection of images to replace the old ones I deleted and have even gone as far to sign up for a couple of porn sites. While I've been doing my best to stick to a gym routine, my self-discipline has gone down the shitter in other aspects of my life, I have no fucking confidence and I'm a disorganized mess. I'm depressed and can't even socialize, unless I'm with my brother or cousin without feeling anxious. I can't even show pictures on my phone without being scared that someone might come across a picture I've saved for viewing pleasure. At this point, I got nowhere to go but up. About an hour ago, fapped on the toilet and realized I'm only doing this shit to escape stress or cope with difficult feelings. With a heavy workload this semester, seems to be the perfect time to start a reboot and get myself back on track, along with learning how to face and deal with my stress and feelings in a more productive way. I will be posting on reddit too, my reddit username is DMD12345
Welcome back & thanks for the follow.. You don't have to be alone, we're all here for you if you need us.. There will be good days & there will be bad days, what we have to do is keep moving forward.. Cheers & good luck!! One day at a time
Thank you! And yes that is gonna be my approach, one day at a time, one hour at a timeand be patient. In the past, I’d get too far ahead of myself and end up relapsing. As for now, I need to go to bed because I have a lot to do tomorrow, I will be very active on here and making posts every day! Thank you for the follow back and support! Good luck to you as well, I’ll be here if you need me as well!
Thank you! Hopefully I can shake this addiction for good! Instead of waiting till after a certain amount of days of not fapping to make changes, I’m gonna make them along my journey.
We tend to be perfectionists that when we reach certain amount of days we'll make the changes, when we feel good then only we'll study but there never comes that moment.. Right moment is "now" not in the future.. So we should definitely focus on the present moment instead of contemplating about the future.. Cheers & keep going mate!!
When I was taking that hard math class 4 years ago, I made the changes as I was going into my streak and it played a huge part in making me able to go 64 days on my first try as well as passing the class, second streak was decent too, 22-24 days I believe. But I fell back into the all-or-nothing mindset and said fuck it and gave up. I’ve learned when you break a streak it isn’t the end. Build up off of it and keep making changes. Like with any bad habit or addiction, you’re gonna slip up a couple of times while you’re recovering. The streak is overrated IMO, how you handle yourself after the reset is the real test.
