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Do most guys stay clean once they have recovered? Or do must guys usually always return to porn?

Discussion in 'Rebooting - Porn Addiction Recovery' started by skaterdrew, May 12, 2020.

  1. skaterdrew

    skaterdrew Fapstronaut

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    What do you see as your ideal ending when it comes to nofap and pornfree?

    Like when you have 100% cured PIED, when you have had as much brain changes and healing as you can possibly get. Where do you want to be?

    Do you still want to be coming on all these forums all the time anyway?

    Do you want to never use porn again?

    Do you never want to masturbate again?

    Do you sometimes want to masturbate?

    Do you even sometimes want to use porn?

    Like what really is the end goal?

    For me I would want to be 100% cured of PIED. I wouldn't want to be addicted to porn anymore, and I would want my brain to be completely healed from years of chronic PMO use. I would want to be having succesful sex with women, possibly being in a relationship.

    If I masturbated occasionally it wouldn't bother me. Even if I occasionally ended up on porn it wouldn't bother me all that much as long as issues like PIED and all those brain changes from chronic PMO use for years never returned again.

    I wouldn't want to keep coming on forums like this forever. I wouldn't want to be obsessed with pornfree and nofap forever.

    But I mean how does it actually feel to be 100% cured? Are guys still obsessed with all this stuff even after they're 100% cured?

    I feel like if I didn't have some level of obsession with pornfree then I could see how easily I could end up going back to porn to the point I ended up developing issues again. Do guys just always have a thought in the back of their minds that porn and artificial sexual stimulation is no good and this always keeps them clean from it, or more or less clean from it?

    But I mean memories fade with time. Surely after a long time of being recovered your going to worry less and less about all this stuff, and even forget how bad it was and what can happen, and then you could easily end up gradually using porn more and more again? Or do you think there will always be a wee voice in the back of your head reminding you how bad it is and not to do it?

    I just honestly don't know how you're supposed to remember how bad all this stuff is forever and stay clean from it forever, unless you have some level of obsession with it forever. But like I said I really don't want to be obsessed with all this stuff forever and come on sites like this forever.

    It would be really interesting to know what percent of guys have 100% recovered who never returned to their old behavoir. Then also what percent of guys 100% recovered who did return to their old behavoir and developed all those issues again like PIED, porn addiction and all those brain changes. Then what percent of guys who 100% recovered who never returned to their old behavoir but did occasionally end up on porn again.
     
    Last edited: May 12, 2020
  2. TintaxCS

    TintaxCS Fapstronaut

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    Looking for the same answer, Sexually frustrated as hell. I dont even get a chance to get with someone and I feel like I wont get a chance for the foreseable future. I dont crave porn anymore, I dont crave masturbaition. I just feel like I want a release. I can easily keep on going but I've been saying to myself that I just wanna quit.

    For me I haven't felt urges in months. I don't have anything inside of me forcing me to jack off when I really dont want to. At this point I think any choice I make is my choice because I have killed the addiction.

    I have been thinking about going on a P binge once and then going on another long streak in order to give myself time to heal. For me I don't think its realistic for me to never masturbate again. If I'm away from my S/O or just got out of a relationship or any of the million other things in life that cause stress and weakness, I'll probably do it. The only reason I'm browsing these forms is because I'm looking for answers about leaving nofap and going back on MO or even possibly finding healthy ways to do P. Another way I see it is that even if I watch P again and the effects are negative, I can recognize the negative effects and just go on another streak. Right Now I'm waiting to hit 100 days just to make sure I'm fully healed.
     

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