Relapsed

Bro i had a 83 days streak (the longest i've ever had) and I relapsed 3 times with pmo, today it's day 6 and i'm feeling better.
I'm struggling a little bit with discipline these days but i will keep fighting.
Don't let bad moments control your behaviour or you will relapse again.
Your are not alone brah we're all gonna fking make it. Get up king!

 

Damn five 5 months is damn impressive,it is a relapse but not all progress lost.Get up dust yourself off and keep on marching

 

Just to chime in -- the most important thing you should know about relapses is that they do not reset the entirety of your progress. As long as you stop the PMO and get back to your streak without binging, you'll be back right where you left off in terms of progress. Godspeed.

 

5 months is an amazing streak. You should be proud of that. I've never even been able to go more than like two weeks. As posters said above, your progress is not all lost. You've obviously done a lot to make it that far so please don't be so hard on yourself. Just keep going. I envy what you've been able to achieve.

 

FUAAARK

 

Hey guys, first post here. Struggling with relapses this week gone following 19 days. My longest time in a while. Did 30 days earlier this yeae due to fasting etc. feel down in the dumps right now so reaching out.

 

Relapse doesn't have to decide your future. No matter how low you get, when you're back on top again, you're gonna feel great about your progress regardless of what happened in the past. Just keep striving and press on. If you need reassess your strategy or make changes, do whatever it takes. Think of a line graph... even when the overall trend goes upward, there are still dips/declines in between. Look at the big picture.

 

I do not believe having sex with a partner is a PMO relapse. Nofap is helping us to return to normal healthy sexual relations. Isn't that the point, not to become unicks, monks or priest abstaining from all ses.

 

I relapsed again bro

 

Bro, be strong and just try again. I have relapsed maybe 100 Times...

 

Let me get my little notebook for you guys..
The god GabeDawg said: "There is only one reason why people relapse: Because they want to."

And I am not saying this to shit on anyone, I want you to really think about it. You did it, because you want to. In that moment, watching porn and masturbating was, for you, the more desirable option, compared to all other alternatives. You need to look at the situation you're in!

In an experiment with rats, they gave them unrestricted access to drugs, while locked in a sterile cage. The rat had nothing to do, was alone and ended up binging on the drugs. Once the rat was placed in a natural environment, with other rats, and a real world with lots of things to explore, it simply stopped using drugs.

We all are this rat. Get out of your fucking cage, you're only doing it, because you have no better option. CHANGE THAT!

 

Man, I relapsed today too. I think it is impossible to stop the PMO by just not watching. We got to create meaningful and fulfilling habits to replace PMO. Also, loneliness, isolation, and boredem are often the emotional trigger of PMO. We should connect with others more often to get rid of those feelings. I don't think it is possibly to quit porn without making great change in our life

 

Addiction is a disease of choice, there are other factors than sheer free will, e.g. brain chemistry

Edit - relapse begins "before" the moment happens, I have to maintain the habits that keep me sober. You're either working on your sobriety or you're working on your relapse.

 

Thanks for your support, however since my last post I haven’t been able to sustain a streak! I just feel beat up and have no motivation to go again. The last streak i hit was because i hit rock bottom, however now i just feel hopeless but still resort back to porn! How does that even make sense?!
Tbh at present i don’t see a way out. Hopefully when i wake up in the morning i will be able to start the day without pmo.