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Giving Up Cellphones, Computers and Anything Digital

Discussion in 'Rebooting - Porn Addiction Recovery' started by Pertinax, Feb 1, 2020.

  1. Pertinax

    Pertinax Fapstronaut

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    Has anyone ever tried a strategy of locking away their cellphone and computer and going without anything digital for a few months in order to prevent relapsing?

    I'm trying to give up porn but I keep relapsing so i think this might be a good way to avoid this, but it would hard living and functioning without technology in modern civilization for a while.

    You might recover way faster anyway I think if you do this as you avoid not just porn but anything digital like picture of hot girls on Facebook and anything sexual in a film or tv show.
     
  2. Johnny Bozo

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    Ya it actually works.

    I can't really find the drive nor incentive to get into details of my own experience though.

    But it works and I used a recovery program that said locking them up somehow was mandatory.

    Edit: Not like going without them at all for months just limiting access.
     
  3. Pertinax

    Pertinax Fapstronaut

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    What treatment program did you use?
     
  4. greenmtnboy

    greenmtnboy Fapstronaut

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    You could avoid computers except in sociable environments like your local library. Being alone with the computer unless you are highly disciplined is a big problem for time wasting especially porn.
     
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  5. Road to freedom

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    That's what I've been doing for years, but: for me, at least, it made the "forbidden fruit" sweeter... I cheated around blocks many times. Maybe it is easier to stay clean that way, but you still need to to firmly decide you are not going to cheat.
     
  6. blademaster87

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    That's the legendary monk mode. Helped me immensily recognizing my addictive personality. I had to spend three months shut down from the world in a farm to get into it though. Get rid of technology for a while if you can. It's healing.
     
  7. greenmtnboy

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    Probably a lot of us are high IQ with overactive imaginative minds. The dark side of the tribe of Benjamin.

    I have had periodic binges, as they say a definition of insanity is doing the the same (futile) thing expecting different results. So wasting your seed causes weakness and discouragement. There are concrete ways to rebuild and avoid bad inputs and actions, but you have to have discipline to do that.
     
  8. I would love to, but my work depends on technology.
     
  9. ZeroChill

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    Im doing this as well. No phones or computers or tv's. Dont look at anything digital for a few months. From my own experience, i relapse when im playing games and watching youtube, anime and stuff owh and social media as well. So throw off everything in order to properly reboot. And i notice that i relapse easier when im tired, probably a person is both mentally and physically weaker when they are tired. I have been relapsing for 3 years and now 40 days clean which is much easier without electronic gadgets.
     
  10. ZeroChill

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    I second this. When im out in the public, i dont feel any strong urges even when using my laptop or phones. I think that our brain is smart enough to tell this is not the right place to do it and most of the time when im outside, i will feel uncomfortable and urging myself to go home quickly. Might be related to the demon inside u trying to tell u to go home and do what u have always been doing to feel better.
     
  11. ZeroChill

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    Yep. All those hours of scrolling really drain us down to the core.
     

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