Anybody else sick of NoFap?

Mmmmh I went back for like a month too around 40 days, but I realized I definitely needed this forum. I'm in forced hard mode and I did it cold turkey, this is my first attempt. As I don't check blogs or go on Facebook or YouTube I naturally come back here. I spend my whole days on the activity stream, it's strange. I need to be here.

I stopped coming here when I got home. I got terribly, immensely depressed due to withdrawals and being back home, but I don't think it's the same reason than you.

Maybe it's part of the reboot process or of the flatline. You avoid anything that is sexual, including stuff about quitting porn and masturbation. Because when you think about it, the more you try not to think of it, the more you think of it. Just my two cents.

 

I realized that masturbating was causing a negative effect on my life, I hated being tired all the time and being stuck in a loop, so I committed to stopping, and have been pretty darn successful. I haven't gone to the nofap website too much either, I also stopped coming here around day forty. This is good, as long as no relapse has occurred. I feel grateful for the support and tools I've received here but feel I am doing well on my own now. Do you mean to say you're tired of the nofap process? Are you sexually frustrated and want to release? I understand, but by all means do not return to the PMO cycle, you will regret it. Being a young man and not getting that release can be very frustrating, and I admit I did receive a handjob on day 77 which felt incredible and like it was something I needed, but I absolutely refuse to fap again. The best thing to do my friend is to channel that energy someplace else, call up a girl you like to hang out and if your phonebook is a sausage fest like mine, it's time to get some numbers. If you can't find anyone, work out vigorously, give yourself fully to something that makes you feel good like music or art. Take up a sport, channeling your sexual energy into something you care about will not only ease a lot of that frustration, but will make you more attractive to a woman so you can find a lover and find that release in a healthy, natural way. If you're already doing this, up the ante, double your efforts. I know it's hard, but nothing in life that's worthwhile is easy.

 

Yeah I guess after a while you need to spread your wings and fly from the nest. Leaving here and getting on with how normal life should be.

Completely agree with Cats ideas, get yourself out there as much as possible. Join a new club or try new things like dance classes or speeddating even..?

 

If you've got a girlfriend then you've not technically been on hard mode have you?

I can understand having a look at images that might be classified as a grey area, I don't see what's wrong with that. If it's just some harmless images of people in their natural state then who cares I say.
I also have a girlfriend who I've been seeing for the last few months. I wanted to quit pornography and leave it in the past for my own mental and physical wellbeing.
To also challenge ourselves not to materbate, is yes a challenge and one that proves your own mental toughness to yourself. I've also found so far that it has greatly improved sex with my gf and therefore brought us closer. I wasn't expecting these things at all, they are an added bonus.

Whatever you decide on after this, you still would of completed your challenge, and much more than most people manage. Hope you can take a good deal of satisfaction from that, good luck man.

 

Quitting pmo means different things for different people. For you, it may not be a big deal and the journey of nofap may not seem worth the effort. If you are heavily addicted and it is controlling your life, you would see a huge difference in the quality of life and you would value the efforts made to quit pmo.

You have to be careful, though, in judging whether or not quitting pmo is worth it. If you have been pmo-ing since you were a child (like me), it is impossible to see how life is like outside of pmo. So before determining whether or not to quitting pmo is worth the effort you should stop for at least a year to see what life is like without pmo. Just my thoughts. I don't know about going hardcore though, I'm not sure what that is.