addiction

Hello everyone, My name is ___ and I am new to NoFap. I have been addicted to porn and masturbation since 2012. For many years I tried to quit but I couldn't get out of it. Now I am really tired and I want my life back. Because of this addiction: - My energy is gone - I can't focus - I...

Hey guys, I'm new to this forum and to nofap in general, I have a severe addiction that has taken over my entire life and I just want to share my story and my unique situation and ask for advice/guys who can relate. In particular I will elaborate on my fetish and its origins as I believe my...

Hi I'm new here. I'm looking to quit looking at imagery and masturbating altogether. Right now I've reduced my usage to about once a week. I have to fight off thoughts when I am bored or sometimes when I am in bed. The negative impact on my health comes from when the guilt and shame I feel at...

I also have a porn downloading and saving problem. Here is my story so it can help you maybe. I'm 24 btw. when i think about like the root of this thing this addiction it really comes from when i was in grade seven i remember like right away like just finding one video and being like this...

Hello, I've been addicted to PMO for probably 8 years (I'm 20 now), at the beginning of 2026 this addiction was exhausting myself physically and mentally, the situation was so bad that I was finally able to start searching for a way to stop, and i've found this forum. After some reading and...

Hello everyone, I am a game developer/software engineer who has been addicted to porn, masturbation and sex for the last 12 years. I was watching a video which told me that sex in real life is very simple compared to what was shown on the screen. I am trying to accept this fact but I am not...

What is PAWS? PAWS stands for Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome** (also known as protracted withdrawal or prolonged withdrawal syndrome). It describes a set of lingering psychological, emotional, and sometimes cognitive symptoms that can continue long after the initial acute (mostly physical)...

For over 20 years, I watched porn daily, starting around age 12–13. Over time, it shaped my sexual interests and escalated into visiting sex workers to act out porn-driven fantasies. It also lowered my libido and reduced my interest in sex with my partner. I tried to quit many times but rarely...

I found someone last year, and I actually started to develop feelings for her, the first time I had ever fallen for a girl. Well, my degenerative hypersexuality, and addiction to pmo, made me say some fucked up sexual stuff to her, about her friend. She became disgusted with me, and eventually...

Hi everyone, I have been trying to quit PM since i self diagnosed with PIED about a month and a half ago. I watched porn multiple times a day, often playing porn games, or watching some extreme categories of porn. The reason i am not doing no PMO is because i have a partner :). she is...

Coming back to NoFap after a while. I was wondering if somebody has this kind of addiction. When I discovered NoFap, I found most people would struggle with compulsive masturbation to adult sites, however, my case is a bit more particular, I'm rather more addicted to sexual content in SFW...

I wrote this for a friend but I thought I would post it here in case it can help anyone besides myself: You want to relapse so bad right now. You probably have a certain video or certain series of videos that your mind is telling you would feel incredible to relieve this piled up tension on...

Hello everyone, I'm a 27 y.o guy. I masturbated today 2 times. I kept telling to myself i will stop doing it, but i keep relapsing. I've got gooning addiction that led to paraphilia and extreme kinks. I already got severe health troubles due to fapping and i didn't learn from it. I keep making...

Hello to everyone who's here to read this, and I sincerely hope this helps you in any way on your journey to recovery. I've known NoFap for quite some time now, I must have heard about it in 2021 from some Instagram reel or something like that, and after that I started looking into it, and it...

One week, First Post. It would be nice to have some accountability while quitting Camming, so I am using this blog weekly. If anyone wants to join, feel free. I got into Camming half a year ago, with 23. It was a way for me to feel less lonely. I was and am blessed in my life, but I was...

First of all, Hello to everyone! I will try to introduce myself and keep it as short as possible, although this is something I’ve never done before - typing in forums, sharing my struggles online, or anything similar. I’m currently 23 years old living in Europe. I come from a normal...

So im 15 currently, this all started back when i was 8 already masturbating cause i thought it felt good. Fast foward to when i was around 11 i discovered porn and quickly got addicted. Ever since then ive been watching it for almost every day, i feel really lost. Over the years i tried to quit...

You're so special, cuz you're here! Most people I know would never admit they're addicted to PMO even at some low level. I always tried to talk to people in my environment about my porn addiction to see if someone's also suffering, but the majority of them deny the fact like it never existed...

Here is My story. Because of low self-esteem and being unsuccessful with jobs, women and hating my personality, PMO was making me forget the pain of all of that. It's ironic but the more Women humiliate me about any of those topics, the less it hurts because I was in a state of accepting my...

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Was wondering how things went with others when admitting your addiction to your spouse. What went wrong and what went well?

I'm Brazilian, I'm looking for help, my boyfriend was in the process of breaking up with his pornography addiction, however, recently he had several relapses, he wants to break up with me because of this, I'm extremely upset, I love him and I'll do everything I can to help him, I'd like to know...

Addicted to just one woman on Live cam for 4 years, masterbated every alternative days, it took 1 year to let go of her , now I have a flatline, I don’t get horny how I used to be looking at her. I use to get horny morning at work , at the girl , at social gatherings , She use to go to the...

I'm curious as to how many people here have considered talking to a doctor or therapist about this issue? I'm curious as to how many people are too embarrassed to bring this up or if they're fine with it.

As someone who was insanely addicted from the jump, no build up no slow start, just almost as soon as I started jerking off and watching porn, I became addicted. I couldn't quit for years as I would get insanely big urges and couldn't make it past day 4 or 5. I was insanely agitated and...

Hey guys, so the urges are stronger than ever and I am reaching day 7 tomorrow which had been my record streak for the longest time but now I am committed to breaking it and moving forward. However, at random times of the day or night, sexual fantasies come in and dopamine starts to hit and I...

Hey Brothers, Today is 16th day of my journey. It's going good. I had decided not to goto insta reels but as I'm doing night shift after shift I was trying to sleep but I couldn't out of boredom and I went on Instagram reels. I was scrolling for straight 19 mins and most of it they were showing...

im 14 years old currently ive been on the habit since i was 10 years old and i have a bunch of fetishes ever since that are hardwired into my brain from the use of porn i effectively quit all porn by making a monk morning routine but in the little gaps i have where im free i manage to find a new...

I was hanging out with a friend tonight who spent four months in Rehab because of Alcohol Addiction. He was so happy and so free. After the number of years he spent in pain and despair because of his addiction, seeing him so lighthearted and hopeful was a real blessing. And also a symbol of...

Hello everybody. I'm a 30 years old guy with a heavy PMO addiction since I was 15 (that means 15 years addicted, the half of my whole life). Since the first day I discovered M, at the age of 15, everything started going bad. I remember that day very well because my family and me went to my...

This is truly getting ridiculous. I seem to be having to relieve myself sometime multiple times a day. This isn't normal. It's affecting my life. I feel guilty pursuing a girl I like because I don't want to seem like this is my life. This ruins my days, hours doing it flies by time that I...

M(22), I chose to switch to a dumb phone and installed Covenant Eyes on my laptop. I started my no smartphone journey 3 weeks ago and binge relapsed once. I felt worse on the day I relapsed than in the flatline period. It could be all the frustration.. I've paid 200$ on a porn quitting course...

Before I begin, I am not trying to convince, convert or persuade anyone into any religion, spiritual teaching, cult etc. I just want to offer a spiritual perspective to addiction. I had a porn addiction that was literally crippling me. I was into fetishes that were shameful and disgusting...

Let me tell you how a youtube blocker was way more effective than a p-blocker for me! (exchange youtube for instagram, facebook or whatever media it is that you use) I have been using youtube since my youth for learning, entertainment and relaxation. I went from 1-2 videos a day, to binges...

March The Second was my 29 year anniversary. As the title says, I have been doing this crazily for 2 years now, but I am changing my whole perspective for I can't bear it any longer, as I am 178cm tall and I am weighing 108kg. I am a fat mf right now. So I scheduled a blood exam for Thursday...

Bonjour tout le monde, J’espère que vous allez bien et que vous gardez la force face aux épreuves de la vie. Je vous souhaite à tous de réussir à vous libérer de l’addiction à la pornographie. J’ai réalisé une vidéo où je partage mon parcours avec cette addiction, mais aussi des faits...

Has anyone here ever gone to therapy for porn addiction? I suppose it would fall under general “addiction” therapy, but it’s not drugs or substances I’m worried about. Although, I have a history with booze as well. But I could always easily drop it because I love exercising, and I always hated...

I'm doing prone masturbation since age 4. No, I wasn't commited to porn back then, but accidentally felt good when laying prone. So I used to rub the penis on the floor, but never ejaculated at maybe for a decade since I wasnt ready for ejaculation physically. It's been almost 14 years, and...

I was listening to the "Art of Manliness" podcast (corny sounding name but seriously worth checking out) and he recently had a psychologist on who works with men who suffer from "enmeshment" with their mothers. Enmeshment means you put your mother's needs over your own needs, can't set...

Hi, I just wanted peoples thoughts on the % attribution of positively encouraging someone to not PMO vs being a bit more ‘forceful’ and pressuring them against it. For example if someone is close to PMO’ing and say reaches out to you. What I see the difference is; Encouragement - ‘you can do...

I’m probably going to be all over the place and leaving out important/graphic details. But here we go. I’ve been masturbating since about 12(I’ll be 35 in December). My friend put on one of his older bother’s tapes that he “found” in a drawer full of tapes to “laugh” at it with his friends...

When you are addicted to cocaine, in order to relapse you need to 1. leave the house 2. find a dealer, 3, spend money , and 4, risk getting caught. Its a long process taking at least half a hour from urge to actual relapse. However when facing our Condition there is never a barrier, we always...

Hey guys,I get distracted,not concentrated to perform certain tasks because of this issue.i feel socially uncomfortable,awkward.if I masturbate one time a day.I I have tendency to masturbate multiple times

I have a big problem. 24 years old and I’ve been fighting this addiction since I was a teen. Longest I’ve ever gone was 60+ days and that was like five years ago. I’m single, my previous relationships finished because of my decision to do so. Can’t say that it wasn’t fault of my PMO addiction...

This thread is to gather all the lies we have been told by porn, about porn & for porn. In order for us to help each other not get deceived by porn and all the lies surrounding it. I will share my own lies and illusions about porn and how this affected me so far. Actually those lies are what...

Hello, I am dating for 2 weeks now and had sex 1 week back. I noticed that since I had sex nofap has become very hard. Before that I had a streak of 12 months and also didn’t have sex. I feel so horny this last week that I lost almost every day. Are there here people who also notice nofap...

I'm a 15 year old male, and have been addicted to porn for years. I have been trying to quit for over a year now, but nothing has really worked. My longest streak is only 15 days, which feels pitiful compared to some other streaks I've seen on here. In the past few months I haven't even been...

Hi all. This is a post for everyone at today's webinar, this is the article I was talking about. For anyone stumbling upon this, I've attached a pdf of an article by Gretchen Blycker, a licensed mental health counselor specializing in mindfulness-based therapy and sexual and relational health...

Last night, I discovered that I have PE, and that was the straw that broke the camel's back and put me on the track to NoFap. Pornography has led me down a solitary road, leaving me anxious in social situations and distant from my loved one, my family and friends. Despite my active and fit...

Last night, I discovered that I have PE, and that was the straw that broke the camel's back and put me on the track to NoFap again. Pornography has led me down a solitary road, leaving me anxious in social situations and distant from my loved one, my family and friends. Despite my active and fit...

Today, for the first time I looked up r/nofap on reddit. I had come across nofap many times but I chose to ignore it as I was never ready to quit porn and masturbation prior to today. I had tried a few times once I got a GF but got back into the habit. Well, long story short - Whenever I try...

Anyone here play Codm (and also is a nofapper?). Let's chat codm, I'm new to the game (kinda). What's your rank? Looking to go pro??

↑ This tread is about Mantak Chia Taohist 'sexual healing' techniques combined with pornography, how this is a dreadful combination. Please let me know what you think. ¨Out of interest, how did these techniques fuck you up?¨ My response to your question is very late I'm sorry. About the...

I think it is worth watching the full video before commenting/posting. There is a lot of information here.

Hey all. I've been doing nofap for a very long time and I only felt nofap benefits in my early honeymoon phase of reboot. But as of recently and for a while I've literally seen no benefits. In fact it seems that I'm worse than I was as a pmo addict in many areas. I get mad anxiety around women...

Why does this happen? I look at a girl, I get anxious. I see slightly revealed parts, I get weak and anxious. I also feel foggy and weak. I don't know why it's like this. Also I feel so creepy, I'm so far from lust and lusty things. How bad is P really? This is really really bad..

I was thinking earlier about accomplished men of the past (inventors, writers, painters, composers, architects, generals) and about how the celibacy or abstinence from sexual activity of quite a few is well documented. For countless examples, look into books like Brain Gain by Danavir Goswami...

Yeah title sums up, but I will give some detail here. So I was jerking it since I was like 9 or 10, from there I did it daily, nowdays I do it daily multiple times. I'm straight but I have been desensitized from it and moved onto fetishes like vore and stuff, but now I came up to a weird...

Hey guys, I am in my 20´s, from Germany, so I have to excuse for my English in advance and just hope to get better from reading your posts and from writing myself. I write you, because of today, it's been a little more than a week, that my girlfriend (or now ex) found out about my addiction and...

Hi, I'm new here. I wanted to write out my journey with porn addiction so far as much for my clarity as anything else but also to ask for advice moving forward as I'm not sure of the best path. Although I have been a regular porn user for the entirety of my adult life over the last 8 years it...

Hi, I'm 25M and have been watching porn since 12. I spend way too much time watching porn, which is now affecting my work and personal life. I want to get rid of my addiction and hence joined NoFap. For most of my life, I have been very lonely, which I believe is the primary reason I watch...

Hello Fapstronauts, I am 35 yo, I have a wife and two beautiful children, yet I still struggle with M. I've discovered M "by accident" as a 6yo and a strong addiction was developped. Since then I've never been abstaint from M for a longer time. I've been for a long time on a therapy that helped...

I'm an 40 yr old, who has been watching porn since I was a teenager. When I first watched a DVD I bought from a sex shop in London, I never knew that it would change my life as an adult forever. I recently ended an eight-year relationship with the love of my life. I struggled to feel anything...

Quick background: mid 30's male, p/m/o user for more than two decades, edger for almost as long I'm caving under the weight of guilt, shame and inadequacy. For the last couple days, I've had tears in my eyes on more than several occasions. I had much higher hopes for myself in my younger days...

[Breaking Free: A Poem of Liberation from Addiction] By Ammar In the shadows of addiction's grasp, I once dwelled, Lost in the labyrinth of desires, where darkness swelled. Masturbation and pornography, my constant crutch, Led me down a path where I lost touch. As a child, I sought solace in...

What's up people. I am just writing to ask whether anyone knows a good blocker I can install onto my iPhone? I have Cold Turkey Blocker on my Windows Computer, which is sublime, but it cannot be used on iOS. I am looking for the option to block particular words from search queries, block...

I don't know about you but I am a shadow of my former self. There is not a single doubt that p/m/o has changed me for the worse in countless ways. A brief list of what I lack: enthusiasm motivation positive outlook self esteem decisiveness confidence emotional stability inspiration friendly...

Hi, Hate to admit it, but I have an issue with femdom/findom. I (unfortunately) found out about this whole fetish years ago on Twitter. And ever since, I've been paying girls online for a while now. I would admit that I have developed a few "healthy" friendships through that, but a major...

I'm of the opinion that p/m/o has made me extremely toxic. I've consumed porn almost daily for two and a half decades. Edging is something I made a habit of early on. The reality is that I'm everything I didn't ever want to be: bitter, selfish, negative, boring, awkward, unmotivated, resentful...

Hello all, It's been almost 10 years since I've been officially a part of the NoFap community. The last post I made was on an entirely different account when I was 14 years old. I'm currently 23 and I'm looking forward to a fresh start on my NoFap journey. My previous journey consisted of...

Hello I am new here, I wanted to join this page a long time ago, but didnt have a courage to do so... My problem is, that I was a porn addict for a 10+ years...then I found a girlfriend and I stopped watching it... - Now from time to time I masturbate when I´m drunk, and we have this rule, that...

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Hello guys, so somehow since last week when I had a big relapse I am relapsing again and again. I also seem to develop a sissy and trans addiction, I text with some random girls about anal stimulation and anal sex which is performed on me with a girl with a strapon or even a guy. So basically...

Hey all. I just wanted to let you guys know that I'm no longer addicted to P. It's been over a year since I haven't watched it and I have no urge to do so. But one thing that's really been bothering me is my MO habits. A lot of the people here would say that MO without P is fine, but I've...

Hi all! I've come to this place in search of help overcoming my addiction to explicit sexual imagery, my compulsive sexual behaviors, and to gain support for my sexually related, trauma induced anxiety and paranoia. I guess to be candid about things I'll just go ahead and state that...

Hello Everybody. I will try to shorten my story, but I am not sure it is possible. I am 23 years old, and I am battling porn from my 12th year, since I realised the dark side of it, that it has nothing with the reality. I felt a lot of times discouraged and depressed because of my fall. Once I...

I was at the lowest point in my life. the situation does not allow me to go to rehab. Porn, masturbation and sex addiction have destroy me as a human. Added drug addiction in the last 5 years. i just want to die. My children still keep me alive. But still, I still haven't been able to stop...

Hey, I have made a post about this topic a month or so ago. Now I'm on Day 3 of Hardmode and I am craving Roleplay more than Porn. I feel like it boosted my cravings for PMO much more. It felt like a constant Dopamine IV drip whenever I would be on those apps and writing out those stories...

So you wanna complain that everything is hard? You brought yourself to this forum for a reason. You're sick and tired of watching life happen to everyone around you but yourself. Everyone your age and younger is getting married, starting families, and starting careers. And it's eating you...

Firstly, apologies for the long read. This is something that's been a long time coming for me, and I feel there's a sense of catharsis in typing this all out, even if no one reads it. I first discovered nofap back on Reddit in 2011. At the time I was unemployed, smoking weed, spending all my...

Eye floaters have long been associated with [excessive] p/m/o. Video above shares some insight as to how they may be dealt with.

Anyone who managed to overcome gaming addiction (without encouraging to titles etc) please give some tips or strategies. What worked, what didn't work in your case. Any motivational stories, pep talk, or other resources, such as game-addiction sites or forums appreciated.

What is p/m/o is as good as it gets? My life is such a mess, especially for my age, that the only time I feel any pleasure at all is when I p/m/o. Sad, I know. I can abstain but I often find myself wondering why I even try. It's almost as if I think things can't and won't get better, like I...

I want to zoom in and focus on edging. Let's single this activity/habit out. In this thread, forget about masturbation with or without porn if and when there's no edging involved. First, let's define EDGING: It is an orgasm control technique which involves the maintenance of high levels of...

(Disclaimer: I watched a NoFap video from Hamza who mentioned to share your porn addiction story to someone or on NoFap community to feel better and open up. That's why I am writing this long story it might not be perfect but I'll try my best to explain it in a better way.) I have been bottling...

At the risk of coming across as weak, I think the continuously deteriorating state of the world (especially the West) is as much of a trigger for me to relapse as anything else. There are things I read and watch on a daily basis that have me thinking that "you literally could not make this shit...

Well Guys. I made it past the 90 day mark and I liked the benefits I’ve gotten from this so I said why not. Let’s keep this streak going. For a little back story I was exposed to porn at 11 years old (currently 23) It became over a decade long addiction. My longest streak was in 2017 when I went...

I don't know if it's one or both of these things are handicapping me and hindering my progress. It seems to me that I really struggle with a fear of withdrawal symptoms and potentially a fear of success as well. In hopes of getting the thoughts and opinions of community members here, I'll...

Just curious, I suffer from PIED and currently in the process of doing a reboot and keeping the porn to zero and only masturbated once this month currently on day 25 streak which I'm very impressed with and know I'm not going to break it as I'm proper committed and am not suffering due to poor...

It's been more humid than usual in my part of the world. As a result, there's been an uptick in nuisance flies. I searched for ways to get rid of them and I came across an article which provided a recipe of sorts, ingredients to be mixed into a substance that will attract and ultimately trap...

I have been exposed to MO since age 6 unintentionally when I started sleeping on my stomach and have done so ever since without knowing the consequences as a child. However, it had become such a habit that when I grew up until now, it's been so hard to overcome. I have premature ejaculation...

I'm trying to do better and be better. I truly am. I no longer want to run away from my reality or my problems. Ideally, I want to face them head on, in a healthy manner. I'm failing miserably so far. My current streak of abstinence from p/m/o is only 4 days but it's the longest I've had in...

Hello guys I am new to this community. I am not sure where to put this kind of post and I’m kind of freaking out right now so I just need some advice/help. I’ve heard about Nofap for a bit but have not entered the community until now. Here is a bit of context before I explain the issue: I...

Has anyone read Rock Steady? I'm currently about 80 pages in and I'm finding it interesting. I read Norman Doidge's The Brain That Changes Itself years ago and this book seems like a version of that but it somehow seems more tailored to people like me and those in similar situations. It presents...

I’m a 19 year old man trying to escape out of the porn addiction. I watched it for the first time at 12 years old when a friend of mine in school showed it to me. And since that time I’ve consumed this type of content for almost 7 straight years. However during this time it was not a big of a...

Hi guys, so I’ve been doing nofap since I was 16. I am 21 now. I’m going to keep it short and sweet for time sake. when I was 16 I was depressed and hopeless. It was hard as could be, but I was successful with nofap and I was the complete opposite. at 17 I felt great everyday, looked...

This is about suggestive content (not necessarily porn). How significant of a setback is it to "peek" or consume suggestive content during a period of abstinence from p/m/o? Specifically, I'm inquiring about anything from pics of bikini models (on Instagram, for example) to artistic nudes such...

I love podcasts about therapy, betrayal trauma, addiction, and recovery. Several audio books too. Wondering if anyone else likes to listen and discuss also.

Below, I am quoting text from an article on GoodRx (GoodRx Health): What Is Porn Addiction Withdrawal? Symptoms and Guide to Recovery Feel free to share your opinions and discuss.