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Hard case of: NoFap Challange accepted (this time with social support, I hope)

Discussion in 'New to NoFap' started by Breaking Fap, May 8, 2014.

  1. Breaking Fap

    Breaking Fap Fapstronaut

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    Hello community, you are about to face a really complicated case.
    Maybe it is going to help to write something down, even if it is anonymous.

    Lets get to the facts

    Fact 1:

    I am a student of physics in germany, this is my second term.
    I have a fucking lot of ambitions, but most of the time not enough mental focus and energy to fully achieve something.

    Fact 2:

    I had a lot of relapses until these days. This urge comes really waywardly.
    In a moment of inobservance, which may occur after a few days,
    or sometimes after a few weeks, it pulls you back to the old habits.
    I can hold back the urge for a few days. But it accumulates really diabolically,
    its like getting a boner just by putting on new undershorts.
    If that accumulation releases, this may lead to a hardcore faping session, with tremendous headaches afterwards.

    You are not going to like what follows now, but I hope you understand.

    Fact 3:

    Online Pornography is just one out of many options to get a kick. I would say in my case:
    Online Pornography was just a trigger of the following.
    I am not proud of what I am about to write now. Sometimes, if there is the possibility, I take action and make my own porn. What I mean by that is for example: If I am in a swimming pool, and two aspects come coincidentally together, urge and possiblity, I take my smartphone camera and do records at suitable places, like the changing cabines.
    Live and self-made voyeuristic pornography.
    That gives me a kick that goes far beyond online pornography.
    So I unfortunately found a way to get even more kick than pictures on a screen, made by others, would provide.
    Another interesting point is, that I always deleted the videos immediately after I faped on them,
    so I had never collected anything, the videos themselves were not important, but the way I got to them.

    Believe me or not, I was caught 2 times.
    The first time I was able flee.
    The second time was face to face. But I was able to delete the videos quickly to avoid punishment. Instead of getting frightened, I developed new techniques to hide better.

    Fact 4:

    To stop this boundlessly unfolding insolence I simply stopped going to public swimming pools.
    I know this development is going to be dangerous, especially not only for me.

    Fact 5:

    I want to stop it. This is gutless, nutless, timewasting, energywasting, pointless bullcrap.


    To some extent my bahavoir may be normal, but the trend is now getting out of control.

    I watched some videos of that nofap-guy on youtube, who made a video on : cold shower therapy.
    I took that challange for a while, about 2 weeks I put the water to the coldest setting. The first time it was great and promising. After a while it was getting more and more difficult, painful and energy-draining. I stopped it, at least to some extent.
    I now only take a quick cold shower at the end, not at the coldest setting.

    But I hope you do recognize, that I am already trying different attempts and give me a feed back.

    How can I investigate? How can I get feed back? How does this community work? I cant help anyone, because its me who needs help.
     
    Last edited: May 8, 2014
  2. LustFREE

    LustFREE Fapstronaut

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    I believe every person on here has faced this demon. You're not alone, though you certainly feel your situation is unique. Fortunately or unfortunately, there are stories throughout this site of people who have suffered and inflicted unimaginable damage. The positive note here is that you're aware and CAN stop this NOW! Obviously, you know right and wrong and you're here for help. There IS HOPE- There IS a better life and you clearly understand and aspire to that! Focus your energies on your positive ambitions. C'mon- German engineering and Physics!!?? You're brilliant!! Seriously, relax. The dark side of all of history is littered with evil. You need to first start by understanding that you have your choice of how you use your ambition, goals and 'brilliance'. PLEASE- Focus ALL your energy to be the next Einstein!!! We all need talents, skills, ambitions, goals AND Role Models. Unfortunately, no matter how smart you are, you won't conquer this demon through 'smarts' alone.

    You have a choice right now between prison and complete freedom. Choose freedom! Choose respect and life! Choose LOVE over Lust. You CAN overcome this and contribute great things.
     
  3. Tom_meadow

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    First of all, welcome to the community ClicktoReboot and for sharing/posting your story here. That already shows courage and will to go deal with this. For me being in this community helps me a lot, and I think it can mean the same for you!

    I suppose the things you describe above have been going on for some time now already and some of it really has become a pattern in your life.

    About the masturbation 'built up/accumulation' urge I feel part of it you should see as being normal, healthy, your sex drive. We are naturally made/hardwired to want/like sex. On the other hand the severe headaches are not normal, and this is something that I'd say possibly can have become connected to masturbating because of (overly) watching porn and the voyeuristic exciting (but also shame/guilt inducing) activities. I remember from my long porn and masturbating sessions also having headache 'hangovers'. A pause in PMO would probably do some good in getting rid of those headaches.

    I admire your ambitions and drive to achieve them, however I have to ask you what's driving you to achieve them? I want to say, it's not the activities or goals you achieve that make you a person to be, be loved and cherished. Some people use their (perfectionist) drive/ambitions to cover up a void/empty feeling about themselves in their inner core. I hope you feel good about yourself, this could also be related to the 'kick-drive' you get from porn and the voyeuristic activities.

    the link I post below goes to a diagram called the 'addictive cycle'. I came across it in a book, and it helped me understanding why I grabbed to porn and compulsive masturbation - 'I wasn't feeling good about myself'. Porn and masturbation gave me something very powerfull temporarily (like the kick you describe) to not feel these feelings, my own (presumed) flawed nature. When acting out (watching porn and mastrubating), I would even feel more failing and in the end needed more PMO. I'm not a therapeut, but my intentions are good here, and hope you can relate to something of this and acknowledge how this possibly fits in your own life and your current habits.

    http://37.media.tumblr.com/fe833675e4cb8bbe339050e839529313/tumblr_mj5w14dnfe1qa0uujo1_1280.png

    Once there, you can start to take steps to 'break this cycle'.
     
    Last edited: May 9, 2014
  4. Breaking Fap

    Breaking Fap Fapstronaut

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    Thank you very much for your reactions.
    You have both mentioned important points.

    first of all:

    Something has changed with my incitement to approach goals,
    since I started these Faping activites a few years ago but
    I cant exactly place the events chronologically, cant even say if this is directly related to that.
    I remember the days when I was deeply interested in a topic, and was motivated to learn about it, most of the time very exaggerative.

    So I know what it feels like to be deeply motivated and determined, for me this has become kind of a measuring stick, or reference value of motivation.
    Today this drive has lost some of its quality.
    I am not motivated like I was before, tired, bored, sometimes lethargic.
    Sometimes there is a glimpse of high motivation.
    But there is also a new component, which I would call competition component.
    This is also something that probably found its way to my mind through the education system, at least partially, but partially set up by the stupid urge of gaining acceptation and honor.
    Very primitive and stupid.


    I have a feeling of blackout, I am insensible for that kind of serious inner determination. It feels very cold, my hands are most of the time, even in summer, dead cold. Its like sitting there and only waiting for the death to come, even though I am not sitting all the time, also go the gym, riding moutainbike. But it feels like a superficial amusement, therefore it feels like nothing.
     

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