My Personal Story - 17 Yr Old

Hi everyone, I'm a 17 year old from the U.K. I came across these forums and other websites like this one about 10 days ago. It was only then that I realised that I have some/most of the symptoms of Porn-Induced ED.
Let me explain a bit of my back-story, and please if you can relate to anything I'm saying, then post below!I've been masturbating since the age of 12. Originally I didn't have my method correct and 'humped the bed' until about age 15/16. After that age, I finally sorted out my method. I'm not sure if this is the case with anyone else, but even though I describe myself as having 'porn-induced ED', I don't and never have actually watched porn that much - usually just reading erotic stories or looking at pictures of girls. However, I still have exactly the symptoms described on websites like this one, and believe what I have is the same thing. Up until last week, I masturbated 2-3 times a day, sometimes more. In the school holidays. that rose to anywhere from 4-6 times each day, over a period of 1 or 2 weeks.

So 10 days ago I started hard-mode no PMO. Not looking at porn itself wasn't that difficult as I barely viewed it anyway. However, having Instagram/Facebook etc makes it very difficult to not see images of girls, which is what I would usually use.
Even though I've been frustrated these last 10 days, I've managed to not masturbate or anything. However today I read an article describing a 'test' you can do on yourself to check if you have porn-induced ED whereby you try to gain an erection without looking or thinking about anything, and I convinced myself to take this test in the interest of science (which I shouldn't have done). Basically I edged for a few minutes. Then about an hour later I did it again for a few minutes. Now I feel really bad and that's what's led me to create my account on here and post my story, as I'm seriously trying to overcome this thing.

Sorry for such a long post and thanks for reading. Again, if anyone can relate to anything I've said regarding my previous habits then please PM me or post below.

 

Thanks for your support! I will keep this thread updated in the next few weeks as I go along my journey

 

Hi everyone and thanks for your contributions!
@Balderdash, I've read your journal, keep it up!

@IGY, luckily I stopped prone masturbating about 2-3 years ago. It actually left me with phimosis (search if you want) but over the past few years of typical masturbation I've been working on fixing it and it's about 90% fixed. I believe that having this condition has caused performance anxiety for me in the past, and this coupled with possible porn-related ED didn't help.
I was planning on no edging for 90 days as I don't believe it's beneficial, but unfortunately I slipped up today! Hopefully these first 10 days haven't been for nothing because of it though.
Thanks for your definition on porn by the way, I think that needs to be spread around because a lot of people on sites like this just assume all porn is in video format.

@srdiogenes, thanks, I'll take a look now!

 

Going to make a journal in the appropriate section, so I'll be updating this thread and that one if anyone's interested.