Hey everyone: I am new here. I have battled porn for quite some time and it has done some damage to my personal life. I am here to better myself, to heal, and to hopefully become a stronger person.
Welcome to the community! Invest your time in understanding the addiction, how it works and figure out a plan to deal with it, it will take a while to find the winning strategy. Till that keep fighting. Good luck!
I've done all that in spades. Now I've finally found a community I guess. That might be the ticket. God willing it is.
Welcome to NoFap where you are amongst friends who are here to encourage you and sometimes challenge you but not judge you. The enemy is here to steal, kill and destroy. What are your current strategies for combating the enemy called PMO?
Right now prayer and distraction. I am trying to train myself currently to come to this site when tempted instead of porn sites. I also have a few hobbies I am doing to prevent boredom. I have found boredom to be a major conteibutor.
Thanks. I am mainly going off of what my therapist told me to do when I went to counseling for this. I'll check that out though.
So....now it's day 9. I'm being very good right now. My own worst enemy at the moment is my own darn over active imagination. If I lay down or shower or any where else M would occur, it likes to throw erotic images at me. Sometimes complete with stories and character development and occasionally, plot. It gets weird real fast, I guess. That's been happening the last couple days. I guess it's a step in this. I hope it don't last.
Okay, so reboot. I did make it 9 days. No porn but I did end up with M. So...I learned my imagination can turn it's back on me. One moment it's an innocent story, next....well....not. Next is impulse. I have to work on that. But I have some victories. No porn. I made it 10 percent of the way without M. Tomorrow I start over. Day 1. Here'sto round two
Good for you for being honest with your struggle. I know my imagination can be my worst enemy too. But your situation reminds me of a movie, The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty. Walter changes over the course of the movie. He goes from having lots of daydreams to having none at all because he just lives an exciting life. Maybe, you can do more things to keep you in the moment.
Okay 11 days no porn. 2 days NoFap. The going is good. Part of my problem with porn had always been that it's what my brain turns to when it's bored. If I am sitting by myself in the morning or evening, it would be porn that I would turn too. Whether I actually viewed it or not. I am now learning not to do that and to turn my energy else where. God only knows where this will lead, but I am glad I am doing it.
Today is day 5 NoFap day 14 no porn. So far so good. I find myself avoiding near occasions of temptation now. When I used to seek out images and things of temptation and then berate myself when I gave into porn. It feels like it is getting easier now. This day 5 is a hell of a lot easier than the last day 5 where I felt like I was almost twitching with the need. Today feels like this is one of the best decisions in my life. God only knows what I will feel like tomorrow, but I am hopeful.
Day 7 and day 16. I am doing okay but day 7 is kind of tough. I am fighting through this. So this day is kind of tough. Here's to hope to getting through it.
