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How to deal with intense sexual urges

Discussion in 'Rebooting - Porn Addiction Recovery' started by Deleted Account, Jul 25, 2021.

  1. I know this sounds like nothing but I had a very intense urge in the middle of the night on Day 3 of NoFap. It was so bad that I was breathing so hard. I never had urges this intense when I would PMO in High School and College. I think porn completely numbs your sex drive. I guess NoFap is working.

    How do you deal with intense sexual urges?
     
  2. On multiple levels. In the most basic way, I think you need to deal with it both physically and mentally, and also in both the short term and the long term - so think of it like a 2x2 framework. In the long run it's largely about prevention but obviously that's impossible to do 100%, but what it can do is not let things catch you totally off guard.

    I'm coming up around 90 days, at least in terms of the P streak which is longer than PMO, and lately I'm having more urges. Some of those have to do with more long term changes, not just as far as the streak but also my diet for example, which is obviously not going to change things completely in one meal BUT it can lessen things enough if I tweak the content and timing of the meal so even that helps.

    So there is no simple bag of trick kind of fixes that works in all situations even if they work in some. I would encourage you to start looking at it in more context because when the question of urges comes up, without context we get (and do continually see repeatedly) is people keep asking this, even if it's not the same person and they don't ask in exactly the same words (but almost - I mean how different can it be if it's like a 1-2 sentence post?) it is never looking at much details. 3 days in there is simply not enough time to have that much detail, and in all the times I've responded to posts like this I've never seen people be interested in specific things with just one area of life even, like the example of diet. (which btw will probably not work that fast for most people especially when you're younger)
     
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  3. cresyhorse

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    calm yourself down.

    deal with it, as the guy before me said, mentally and phisically. but also spiritually. prayer and scripture calm me down.

    cold bath, walk with friends. just do everything yiu can to calm yourself down.
     

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