Can’t stress the importance enough

Great advice on this post man! I've actually been trying this and seeing how beneficial it is to my NoFap journey. Not seeing pictures in social media or anywhere else helped a lot with reducing my urges and anxiety.

Also good luck on your journey! I'm confident that you will be able to reach your goal man!

 

Thanks for sharing this singular advice.
I had same experiences and came up to your view around triggers. I though i can handle any trigger i confront but the fact was that all these little deviations make The Big Difference.
Again thanks for reminding and i hope your triumph.

 

Thanks man! My journey is going pretty well so far!
And to answer your question, yes. Not looking at any stimulants (sexually provocative pictures of girls on phone, pc, tv) has really helped my mind to stay on track on other things, and has also made it easier for me to talk more articulately to others. I'm guessing that this is because my mind isn't dirty.
I'm also doing way better than to my previous run, as I remember that one day I had seen a picture of an instagram model on my pc on about day 10 and couldn't take it or the sexual thoughts off my mind, which made the next 10 days until I relapsed like hell. So just to reiterate, it's best to not use social media during nofap.

 

Well...to clarify that a person is completely out of anxiety is a waste of time, It is unlikely to elude the pain whether you PMOing, watching triggers or none of them, each one has it's own devil but the last one certainly will strengthen one's mind to ignore trashy thoughts.

 

Today I got really close to relapsing I had the tabs open and I was fishing like crazy, all of that started because I did not show as my SUPERMAN a couple of days ago, I saw scantily clad women on a YouTube video and it triggered my addict mentality, and since then I have been sub-consciously using that as an excuse to fish for pornography, even though the guilt creeps up on me, I will try my best to rid out the rationalization with the clear stream of reason.

 

You didn't masturbate to orgasm as a result??

 

i did not even open the tabs, they were just sitting there tempting me but it was on another tab

 

thanks! i will, you do too!

 

Thank you very much for this, I actually will cut out coffe because I felt that it was giving me anxiousness and it was giving me more necessity of something wich would end-up beeing porn.

 

Before NoFap, I had these symptoms (and wasn't even aware of most of them):

• Lack of initiative/motivation - I couldn't bring myself to do anything productive/accomplish any big goals
• Lack of interest in girls - since my brain thought that the images on the computer were real, I thought I was satisfied and didn't need a girlfriend (may have been caused by psychological and/or physical effects from frequent PMOing)
• Severe/mild social anxiety - since my mind was so focused on the sexual imagery and tired from fapping, I couldn't bring myself to talk to people properly/articulately; especially the case with girls because my brain didn't see them as people from all the porn that I'd been consuming
• Hostility - I remember that every time after I finished PMOing, I would yell angrily at my family over the smallest of inconveniences (they didn't know about my addiction and had never really talked to me about sex since it isn't something that is usually done in my family for some reason, which only made masturbation more secretive and damaging)
• Depression - despite the illusion, I guess I still somehow knew that this was not the right path to be taking in life, wasting my time, energy and life force away by viewing disgusting things, which made me depressed and, combined with other factors, made me never look forward to anything good in life (until now that I'm on NoFap)
• Lack of energy/mental clarity - again, as previously mentioned, masturbating wasted my energy and life force away, making me feel horribly exhausted in most days and not be able to focus on work, which not even good sleep could fix

These are just a few of the many other horrible things that porn and masturbation have done to my life, which I'm now on the track of fixing. Hope this answers your question.

 

I've been on NoFap for about a year now when I learned how detrimental PMOing can become and decided to take a new grip on life. The first few months I saw little to no success and kept constantly relapsing (1 week was my max). However, in the second half of the year is when I started picking up steam with the days of NoFap (28 days max) and the benefits that I discovered (including some healing in most of these areas that I had trouble with). I've become less anxious, less depressed, gained a clearer mind, lost weight, and accomplished other great things this year, which I would've never been capable of had it not been for NoFap. Of course, I'm far from fully healed, but I've definitely seen improvements in these areas that will definitely grow as I continue on.
Hopefully in the upcoming year, once I return to school, things will be even better, as I've learned to deal with a lot of the issues that were particularly present in there.

Hope this answers your question man.
P.S. if there's anything else you wanna talk about to not clog up the thread, feel free to send me a direct message via the forum.