Almost slipped, zombie brain

This happens to me too sometimes. I'll be doing good for a bit and then its almost as if my brain forgets I'm cutting out porn. Happened to me this afternoon as well actually. I think what would help is constant reminders that you're doing nofap. For some this may be detrimental but for people like you and me who have moments where our mind just sort of falls into old habits, I think constant reminders and maybe even consistently journaling about your experience would help. Of course I'm still struggling with this so, take it with a grain of salt.

 

I read that basically what it does is it induces hypofrontality, basically it turns off your frontal lobe by literally draining all the blood from it so you go into this sort of arrogant childlike impulse zombie mode. The thing I found that breaks it for me is getting angry. I feel like the P addiction cannot compete with rage, trying to reason yourself out of it doesnt work because your frontal lobe is literally not active but getting really mad and gritting your teeth and throwing shit ORA kills the haze and screws your head back on.

 

Maybe symbolism would help... maybe draw a symbol on your hand or a ring so that when you begin to relapse it makes you reconsider, i know it sounds a bit witch-crafty but it might work

e.g. here is a traditional good luck symbol from Latvia




Austra's tree
World order, linking past, present, and future. Guardian of the beautiful and valuable. Luck, blessings, success.

When you succumb to P you are forgetting the past, wasting the present and losing sight of the future