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After my first week without PMO

Discussion in 'Rebooting - Porn Addiction Recovery' started by pics, Mar 17, 2015.

  1. pics

    pics Fapstronaut

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    Hello everyone I decided to post what we can feel when we stop even after one week. I know that it's nothing in comparison with some people, but for me it's a change in my life.

    I never spent all my day watching porn but I always found it sweet and thought that those woman were soo kind to tell you how stupid i was.

    Today it has been a week that i stopped. Things are not still pink for me but I want to struggle. During all week i was very anxious but i feel it's decreasing now. I think that it's a real war that you wage against your own desires. It's nothing less.

    I feel less like shit than even one week ago but my urges are harder and harder. I don't want to feel like shit anymore. I am sick of being social phobic and ashamed of who I am and feeling ugly.

    Even if it's hard i refuse to give up. I have difficulties to sleep at night but I bought myself a kindle like this i can read when i can't sleep with no tentation to go to any website.

    I will write every week about my feelings. I hope I will not fall.

    I just want to add to you, reader not to stop, whatever you feel. I didn't know that this selfpleasure would become a so big malediction.But we are not all of us bad people. We have the right of a life, imperfect but a life without feeling like shit.

    Take care of yourself and go as far as you can of this shit.

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  2. Corona310

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    Good Job bro stay strong! We are all here for one cause and its to end this sick habit ! We got this one day at a time .. Best of luck
     
  3. wally_s

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    Congrats, pics! I just turned a week, also. We're doing this, recovery is happening. I have to put my fears and doubts aside because everything is new and unfamiliar. I've never lived without PMO and especially MO, not since I was 12 years old and I'm 52 now. We need to keep visiting this forum often and follow in the experience of others, So, on to week two! Congratulations again!
     
  4. Musta

    Musta Fapstronaut

    Awesome job brother ! if you have reached day 10 by now , I think that urges should decrease ... did it ?
    and I would like to ask you did you spend that weak without looking at any P and without edging ?
    Best of luck !
     
  5. Samilo

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    Great post pic's! :) I think it's fate that I found this article. It sum's up exactly how I feel, It's been a week for me now and it's made a tremendous difference, especially the last few day's. It's like NoFap gives you this constant support, so even if a bad event happens to you or some anxiety reappears I no longer feel like falling into that negative state with all those bad feelings. For me it's like I have this innate sense of reassurance, maybe it's because I'm trying to be a better person, It helps keep me going on. I do beleive pmo destroys our self confidence, I'm not sure how it does this. If it's the dopamine, or the pmo itself, but It has to go. We must all abstain until we find the one girl for us! Good luck everyone :)
     
  6. Ics2000

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    Great that you're seeing the benefits after a week - it does get easier with time, although the urges to skip take a long time to go out your mind. Keep up the good work!
     
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    Hello my friends and thank you for reading my post. Whatsmore thank you for your comments. I am happy that Samilo you found my post. I thought nobody would see it. Thank you Corona, Wally, Ics2000 for your support. It warms my heart to read what you wrote me. Nobody is really alone in this forum in this big war we are waging.

    Musta, to answer your question, i decided to be a real "monk". I decided not to have any contact with porn or masturbation or edging. I only touch my penis to pee that's it. I have been sooo disgusted of myself, so ashamed of me, the last time i did it, that i said never ever. For the moment it's pretty much hard but I don't care about what my body is claiming. I wake up very hard and with the big desire to release myself to be honest. Also I am so sensitive now that even a small dirty picture in my mind makes me feel horny. So it's a real war against me and my urges. But as imperfect as I am, I refuse to bend now. I have felt and have lived in shame for all these years and I am completely fed up of this awful life. I graduated in a good business school but because i was so ashamed of me and so miserable, I never studied well ; i was under treatments for social anxiety, depression but it never cured the real problem. I failed my internships, the jobs I had and today i am in the lowest place that we can have in an administration. And even there i am criticized a lot because I provide bad work. My life is a real nightmare because of the consequence of porn and masturbation. I don't want to resign and please, don't resign even if you have one thousand voices telling you to watch a little video. I am recovering after one year of big depression in which I didn't work (because of my failure in previous job). So really I refuse completely to go back in my previous state. I don't want any one of you to live the hell I lived and what I have to endure because of this shit.

    Today I am at my 10th day. I am happy about something: I went to have a tea with a language partner and it was amazing not to feel ashamed. It's the first time in years I didn't feel not ashamed of me. I will not say I felt perfect but though, I could talk and laugh with out thinking "i am ugly, I am a real shame for the humanity...".

    I think this new path is perfect for us. We can't abandon and neglect our soul (I mean our own person). For 5 seconds of intense pleasure, we are destroying our bodies but also our own lives, our own future, our hopes. What makes us human and imperfect, we see it as a monstruosity. I have been said a lot by some women that I am ugly. And you can imagine, because a lot of you are like me, what can be the impact for a depressive guy that a woman rejects you because of your face.

    I will never be able to change my face but at least I don't want to be ashamed of this genetical inheritage.

    Nofap is my cure and I hope that the one that are in edge of going back to porn will not fall. We are not bad people. I am sure that I would have great conversations with a lot among you. We are not stupid. We are just in a cage, loving to be in this cage, afraid of freedom. Let's accept our destiny. Our destiny is too fly and even if our master "feeds" us in this cage, let's fly to see the real world. Let's stop being frightenend and let's support each other to really change.

    All of you take care of yourself.

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  8. Musta

    Musta Fapstronaut

    You are way too far from being ugly brohter , you have the most beautiful heart . We all have failed a lot in our lives due to porn too , that's why we all are here ! to change out lives to the better ...
    You are still new to Nofap but you are making some great success there !! my salutes to you ! keep up the good work and thanks for answering my question :)
     
  9. Good work mate. I had similar issues with anxiety and depression but doing great now and never want to go back to that way of "living" as it's not really living. Keep at it one day at a time and before you know it you're one month in, then two and beyond.
     

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