NNN has made me realise how addicted I am

Hey there,

I've been masturbating and watching porn since I was about 14 years old. I am now 27 and I've been increasingly masturbating since then...(almost daily) That's about a decade and half... In that time I've grown as a person and lately I've been able to adapt my life by remove single variables that might cause me to be more unproductive. I've had some ambitious dreams as a kid but always put them off, so in the effort to achieve my dreams I've been streamlining my life. Hearing about NNN(No-Nut-November), seeing the large amount followers on reddit and here. I've given it a go!

Yesterday I hit day 11 of my NoFap journey and I've flatlined? (is that the term?) Having a day off and being at home with free time on my hands I've realised how often I turn to Masturbation to kill time or just feel good for a little bit. Going through that day was agony, my brain kept whispering well-constructed and logically-sound reasons why I should just give in. Luckily my instinct was to research more and find answers and every single one pointed me to the following conclusion.

Try it, it being a reboot, they way I treat food and masturbation meaning abuse it to get some quick dopamine hits like a junky going for the next hit of meth means that my brains dopamine pathway must be pretty overused/strained.

Yesterday was shit, and I'll get more shit in next month from what I've read, I'm hoping to get some support from you guys by reading your successes and failures.

Thank you for reading.

 

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