Do porn streaks mean nothing if you still occasionally masturbate?

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just one more thing. you say that you cant access anything atm. but what if that changes? what if you get the chance to access it, because the opportunity will arise sooner or later. i hope you will have the strenght to not look it up when the day comes, and i just want you to be aware of it always being a possibility. dont rely 100% on your blockers and electronics, because they can be bypassed rather easily. best of luck on your journey

 

no, i dont think its weakening your willpower! if you werent able to stop without it, then its a necessary tool to help you. but you have to be aware that its like training wheels on a bicycle - its only there to make the beginning manageable, but you still have to learn how to ride the bike, because one day it would be very nice if you were able to do it on your own. stick to the method that works for you, but be ready to keep the fight going even if this method fails one day.

 

thats what happens to everybody on a hard relapse, its the normal reaction to being reintroduced to your drug of choice and it happens due to the long period of abstinence, which caused the dopamine receptors to reset.
imagine if you didnt have any food for two weeks. you would eat anything people offered you, and you would want to eat a whole lot. if not controlled, you would eat yourself to death, because your body couldnt process all the food your brain wanted to eat. this is a real fenomenon linked to starvation. in our cases, were starving for porn, and thats why we binge for days when we relapse.

 

you have to avoid getting the urge in the first place. once youre having that rush it takes way more willpower to stop it. you have to learn what leads you to relapse, and trace that behaviour to its first step, so you have the possibility to survive. once you know what causes relaspes, stop the behaviours as soon as you notice them, that way you will avoidunnecessary temptations. destroy the seed of evil, so you wont have to fight its full force.

 

Masturbation does not cause any sexual disfunction itself. I'm talking about pied recovery.

 

I think spreadsheets or calendars are more useful to track your progress. I was obsessed with my 'day counter' like everyone else on the forum. But I thought that day counters don't give me the whole picture, and I decided to cover up it, remove it. By the way amount of using is definitely important, if an individual use more porn, it affects more him/her. Frequency and amount of using is definitely a factor necessary to think with addiction. But, there is a thing: Gradual reduction generally don't work with porn induced dopamine addiction. Like saying 'this week/ month I masturbate twice everyday with watching porn, other week/month I just masturbate without porn, maybe I can watch twice porn and other week/month I will cut porn and continue to masturbate with my imagination, and I will decrease it and eventually I will be free' This mindset generally doesn't work for recovery. You have always should think 'Porn is not an option.' Never green light to porn/using with this spreadsheets/PMO calendars. It shows bigger pictures than daily counters but with doing this you should think about clean for 'all life'. Quit porn forever.
Have a good journey!

 

Actually porn is the problem, I begun with a simple video on my friends phone was about 12years by then ...it triggered me so much I didn’t know what mastarbation was till I noticed that I couldn’t go away with it ..... I tried to resist for about 8 months I was clean no porn no mastarbation but then I relapsed again because I learnt how to sex chat with different girls ....The truth is I stopped watching porn it was very easy to stop but ounce you start mastarbating , it’s very difficult to stop. I have not been clean for now 6 years .. am new on NoFap maybe it can help me out

 

I have thought similar things. I definitely don’t think masturbation is as bad as porn. But the times I feel the urge to look at porn and tell me self to just masturbate instead it rarely has ever worked. I just end up thinking that it doesn’t feel worth it to just masturbate. Sure I don’t feel that bad if I do just masturbate however it hasn’t resulted in me no longer looking at porn so I don’t feel like just masturbating is the solution for me personally. I recognize that everyone is different though so do what works for you.

 

It depends if you escalate your fantasies. In my case, i would have a normal masturbation process and then escalate it to porn fantasies and then watch porn.
Thats why I have stopped masturbating for sometime