Hi everyone I am 28 years old. I have been masturbating since I was 17 and watching porn for the last decade or so. And as time went on, it only got worse. Now I very often find myself bingeing PMO and I experience the worst of the downsides that you all probably know. I am naturally an ambitious person but nowadays I can't get myself to focus and complete one single task anymore. That comes with low self esteem and permanent anxiety. I am in a bad place right now. It's terrible. I have always known porn and masturbation are a bad thing and I have always felt ashamed of myself for doing that. So I tried God knows so many times to stop with no success. I have always been all by myself in those unsuccessful trials. I just recently learned about the NoFap community. I feel concerned that there are so many people out there suffering from this and probably having their lifes ruined slowly. But I mostly feel lucky to join this community to begin a journey of recovery. I hope to benefit from your guidance and support to make it happen and I thank you all already for making this platform real.
Welcome to the community anything we can assist you with let us know, wish you all the best on this journey
Hey, welcome to the NoFap community : ) It's nice to see you here fighting the good fight alongside us! First let me go ahead and drop some helpful links for you: Getting Started Guide / Forum Rules / How to Use the NoFap forums/ Glossary/ NoFap Panic button/ Set up your day counter / Rebooting Resources/ Accountability groups (new!)/ About NoFap/ Support NoFap Here is just some advice: First and foremost please take a careful look at each section in the forum, there may be something(s) you will find to be of big help to you. Secondly I advise you to be active on your profile(as there a few active people in the profile section). Please start by choosing an avatar and then begin posting frequent status posts to show you're active and needing support/encouragement. The forum has got a neat little feature that shows freshly posted statuses for all users to see. People will find your profile and give you support. There’s a portion of people who love communicating in the profile section..(it should be and is )mostly spportive talk but it doesn't hurt to deviate from supportive conversations. It would be great to have you join in and become part of the team! We support others in the threads, profile posts, and journals/reboot logs. Once you receive some support, please be sure and be grateful to the member for the help/support you received and consider giving some in return to anyone you wish. Thirdly, you should highly consider creating a public journal/reboot log (in the appropriate sectionfor you) to write about your days in depth for us members to follow along on your journey and offer support to you on. Please start your journal in the correct section and with that, also try your best to post in the correct sections as it is mandatory and would be helpful to the mods who organize the forum. : ) Last but not least: Good luck on your journey here, make sure to really give it a try with all your heart!
