How I deal with porn flashbacks

Watching romantic movies is a good idea to help rewire your brain for love and not purely sex. Also try family dramas that way if you want to move closer to having one.

 

That's great @MyMind07 and well said! It's about pulling our mind out from unconsciousness to consciousness.

 

This is such a fire quote. Nice!!

 

I gotta say, refraining from these flashbacks was very important for me to gain this big a streak (35.5 days as of rn). I usually got'em while on bed preparing for sleep. How did I "Disengage" myself from'em? Well, I think about things that'd make me pride in myself and then deliberately bring some humility to detach that pride from the thing e.g. I'd think about getting a full-time white-collar job and then buying my parents everything they'd wanna have and spending time with them, then I'd assess my current situation and compute the necessary actions to be taken in order for me to achieve the earlier mentioned stuff. I'm usually asleep within 5 minutes of starting to imagine that lifestyle.

I know the above shit is confusing. Break it down into chunks if that helps. Good luck with your streak.

 

I live with it. This is the price for having indulged in self-destructive behavior for years. It does get easier over time, but more importantly you learn how to not let it get to you.

 

I'm having this issue myself now. I didn't realize how difficult the flashbacks would be in the process of recovery. Whenever I get flashbacks, my heart races, and in my mind I think about giving it all up. So what I've begun to do is - inhale, divert my mind to something peaceful, or about making myself the best person I want to be. The memories for me are faint.
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