Anybody want to do a month challenge with me

Day-1
A good start with you guys

 

"The weakest chain is the first compromise in your resolve"
~ somewhere on this forum

I was in a similar situation, it took me a month+ of technology abstention, mainly mobile phone, to make some recovery. I would suggest the same thing if it's feasible.

Imo a no-tolerance policy is necessary. We gotta become monks.

 

I just again relapsed
Day-0 to start man

 

Yup, that is me, in my Avater, 3 years ago.
Stay strong with that streak.
You can read all about e my Nofap journey in my blog.
Hobbies: Reading (SF, fantasy and detectives), walking and tabletop wargaming (Warhammer 40,000)


How is everyone doing? Hanging in there!?
Yes, we can

 

Ah I see your reading interests are quite similar to me.I love greek mythology, murder mysteries ,detectives,fiction,science based books.I have read some from Homer,Agatha Christie,Rick Riordan,Shakespeare,Stephen Hawking,A. Einstein,Helen Keller,D.Patnaik,H.G. Wells,Charles Dickens,R.L. Stein,Roald Dahl,etc.

Whom have you read in past?Whom do you like? Personally I like A.Christie and anything about greek mythology.

 

day 2 is on.How's everyone?Who will fight along myself to win over your mind ? come on!

 

Going ok, I'm having 3 days of smalliday with my GF. So I'll be bcak Monday.
Everyone, yes you can. Get better, for you!

How are you coping? @you_can_UK ?

 

yesterday I added a adblocker on my laptop.And then by adding some minor codes, I made my youtube free of thumbnails.That will reduce my temptation to click on every appealing video on youtube and hence would save my time.

I joined this site on 17 January to fight porn addiction for once and forever.When I began ,I was addicted to (in decreasing order of intensity):-
porn,masturbation, youtube, quora, fast-food, wikipedia,among-us game,literature novels.


Now today is 28 April.Now look at what has changed slowly from 17 January(the day I joined this site) onwards:

>Excessive literature novel reading has stopped completely.I have complete control.
>I don't play among-us or any game now.I have complete control.
>Not even opened or even have a thought to open quora and wikipedia now.Under control.
>Ate fast food just 1 time in this month.A huge change for a person who used to eat some fast-food every-time he went out.Under good control.
>youtube is still the biggest thing on which I still waste a lot of precious time.Almost no change in intensity.
>masturbation is the thing that's troubling my body.Bad physique and bad digestion problems.I used to be dependent on porn for masturbation i.e, if no porn ,then no thoughts to masturbate.But from a few days I am masturbating in the bathroom without porn.This is not good and quick actions need to be taken.
>Porn, still the biggest distraction, concentration destroyed, brain-fog promoter.I have lost the capacity to think and choose the better thing.The only change is that now I feel bad after watching porn.Earlier it was a casual thing.Moreover I was successful in raising little streak (16 days was biggest) and shown myself that I can do it.

So yeah overall ,things are bettering .Very soon all my addictions are going to fall off just like the others.Stay positive everyone.

 

DAY 0

Sorry all. I failed you and myself again.
I should have posted yesterday after my 3 days smalliday and reached out to you.

Smalliday was great. I'm 95% maybe 98% happy with my relationship and life.
But no sex and my addiction to the hyperstimulus of PMO (which makes your brain go to 150%) made me feel bad.

Back home, confronted with all the stimuli (mostly things on screens, Work, Whatsapp etc, but just also the feeling that you have to do things at home), after 3 days of peace and quiet in the woods, mt brain went into overdrive.

So this morning when my wife was away, after I had done the groceries which is stressful (because I cannot handle low stimuli because of my PMO addcition), I caved in and did some quick PMO.

So @you_can_UK , you are on the right track. It is all connected and all the same to your brain. I tend to over do things like reading, etc. too all the time.

It is often said you need a new, healthy addiction to repace the old PMO and that will make it easier.
I do not agree, even if you exercise and get very fit, it is still addiction.
You/ I need to teach my brain moderation. Many Dopamine drips instead of a deluge.
(and seretonin and oxytocin

 

High FIVE!
A.C. is my favourite and has been my whole life. (My mother is a fan so all books were available in my youth).
Rereading her now.
And just picked up my Greek Mythology to re-read. (being careful not to binge read).
First The Wheel of Time re-reading

 

@HereAgain are you still here, or do you need more direct support like your tlegram group?
Good Luck!
I'm cutting down on screen time (it feeds the addcitive brain) so do not log in often.

 

Way to go

 

That's great!

 

How are you doing?
Well day 1 is gone, back on that horse again. Taking enough rest now. Mindfulness bell on the computer.