what if i continued with fantasising........

With a girl you like then? If you see that you have ED because of edging your motivation will rise 1000% to end this completely. Thats what got me motivated. But maybe you wont have ED, which would be good.

 

You train your brain 6h/week to only be aroused when watching P. What happens when your brain should be aroused to a woman? It says no way, this is not what I am conditioned to do.

 

Consider joining the army. They will take lost souls.

 

Fantasizing will lead to a relapse. Just like peeking it's the first step of the mistake. I've done it many times and regret it every time.

 

Porn is actually making a sexual scenarious on the brain and when mammals sexually aroused, their brain starting to push dopamine. We wired liked that. Porn leads sexual thoughts, and sexual thought release dopamine. Dopamine is releasing not just having actual sex, if you are thinking about sex, your brain release dopamine and this chemical encourages us to having sex. Probably you have experience this: You have craving to watch porn, and thanks to hypofrontality you can't stop, you start to type porn on the web, and even any porn website before opening you feel high. That's how mechanism works when I every relapsed.

So, as an addict who use porn for a decade I think the best way to quit porn is this "https://yourbrainrebalanced.com/for...ousal-method-celibacy-of-body-and-mind.14525/. Yes I found the no arousal method the best way to recover. If you think about porn or sex, your brain releases a little dopamine, not too much like watching a tube site but its has similar effects on the brain.

Fantasising does not help to recover from porn, because when you fantasise you are still using. Of course we wired liked that but don't let it become 30 minutes of sex opera in your brain.

Good luck on your journey!

 

I'm confused by this thread. You say you are not Masturbating but that you are Edging. But edging is masturbation. Do you mean to say that you are masturbating but not having orgasms? Why aren't you having orgasms? Are you unable too because of too much edging?

I would recommend that you should be abstaining from P, M and F during your recovery. Any one of them will surely escalate into the others.

If you are relapsing every 10-15 days then your recovery plan is not working. What is your plan currently? Let us know and perhaps we will have some advice for improving it so that you may succeed in the future.