what's up with me?

I'm not really one to give advice, because I am also in a stuggle. But I did once go for 4 years without fap and another time I went about 6 months.

Basically you have to make yourself so busy that you don't even have time to think about it. The best I've done was when I was in a situation where I was finishing up my bachelor's degree taking an overload of classes and working.

 

What ght5 is right but you have to go conscious about it. Please read this.

Don't hesitate to ask (even DM) if you have any questions.

 

I've been in that vicious cycle of unemployment but I never left school. It's very easy to fall into PMO multiple times everyday when there is nothing else to do. I even counted down the minutes till I would be able to get home and PMO or I would use my phone at school. Going 15 days isn't poor, its a starting point aim for 20 days and then 30 days and so on and so forth. I say that when you feel the urge if there is a lot of time on your hands get immersed in a novel or movie/tv show marathon (has to be better than porn, right?) If you ever wanna talk message me.

 

andrewdhiggins,
It's called the THOUGHT-OBSESSION-COMPULSION triangle:
If the thought is nourished, it becomes an obsession, and if the obsession is nourished it becomes a compulsion. Once the compulsion is stablished there's nothing one can do to stop it.
A compulsion is like having an absolute urge to take a crap & opening the toilet door. There's no turning back!
The key here is not let it pass the first stage: Thought to Obsession.
Once the thought appears it has to be deleted immediately, it's not even like putting it into a virtual trash and deleting it afterwards, that will automatically lead to an obsession because the thought is still there until being deleted. This can happen in milliseconds The way it works is like a pop up window opened in a computer, once you hit the X it's gone. just imagine that any thought that appears in your mind is like a pop up window & just hit the X button immediately when that PMO appears to make it disappear.
Off course knowing this doesn't make us invulnerable if we choose no to use this tool. But it has helped me from relapsing zillions of times.
I just got back from choosing not to use this tool, but I'm definitely going to use it as my main shield this time around.
May I choose to use this tool again & again constantly.
ubuntu,

 

The truth is you can do it. No PMO challenge is a progressive journey which means you gonna learn from every success or failure experience in order to get the ultimate result: free from PMO entirely.

I understand how you feel right now. I have been where you have been before. Although I have not quitted PMO entirely but I have made significant progress.

Now, what you gotta do is you gotta decide how to act differently, and then just DO THE FUCKING THING! it's simple as that. Say, you decide to take cold shower every morning, then just start from tomorrow morning and keep doing it. It's hard, but it gets way much easier as you get used to it. Watch success stories on this forum to give you some hopes. Also there are lots of great youtube videos about nofap, check them out! Remember, start to act differently, that's the key! Stay strong and keep clean.

 

How are you doing today andrew?