addiction

Dear no fapstronauts. I would like to share some ideas with you. I'm still struggling with my addiction. And i need your advice. I was succesfull for NoFap for 3 months ( Never got so far before ) It was due the fact that i quit alcohol and worked as an entrepeneur. Since i was a little...

Hi folks, I'm back after many long but failed streaks. My issues have escalated big time. The introduction will just be the fact that i've been a porn addict since the age of 13 and now i'm 33 with severe issues in the real world. I cant look at a girl without objectifying her. Now some...

I have been in a long term relationship with my husband for almost 20 years. There is a big age difference and things don't work the way they used too. I miss being fully intimate and no longer am I satisfied in the way that I used to be. It took me many years to come to terms with my sexuality...

Guys, I just don't know what to do... please help me. maybe to read something, I am relapsing again and again. I tried to have a journal there, and on the others forums, I tried to participate in challenges, I even tried to pray, I tried to go to Sexoholics Anonymous... nothing helps, I am...

Wish I didn't need "this" to feel normal A radical shift must overtake to change the tide of my be To be is of peace To be is to be free To be is to find the ideal me The me I never knew

The Situation I have finally decided to give Rebooting a go for at least 90 days. The problem is, I work in the pornographic software industry. Put simply, on a daily basis, I am expected to view fictional pornography and determine how it should be used and interacted with by our users, while...

Hello, I am new to this community, I just joined. I have been addicted to porn since I was 11. I am now in a relationship with my partner, we are married, and Porn has taken a tole on our relationship. My partner used to normalize porn, like many of us have. Until, they did more research and...

im a bisexual guy , i used to enjoy having sex with men and woman , i met a girl , she's the love of my life , we got married a year and a half ago , after that i unfortunately started using grindr , i had few months without a job due to covid crisis so had a lot of home alone time , i was on...

Hello, i have been on nofap 3 months , my longest Streak is 19 days, and i failed too many times, but now im really focusing And im on day 13. im into BDSM/CUCKOLD/FOOT FETISH/FEMDOM. I dont mind foot fetish tho. Anyway, i never was into vanilla sex, but now i dont know why but when i think...

Counter: 378 days no PMO, semen retention It's been some weeks since I started to make cold approaches, it's my first time doing it. I used to be more into dating apps. So far it's being a success and I've become better and better as I do it more. But after the first approach to a girl I...

Hi everybody, I am new here and ready to begin taking the NoFap journey seriously. I fell that I need to make my confession somewhere in order to begin my recovery journey and I hope this is a safe place to say some things. I don't feel like I have anybody in my life yet with whom I am can be...

Right now I don't particularly like or dislike porn, I just prefer doing something else. Why do you like porn so much?

The other night, I ended a 3 day fapping binge. During the binge, I got extreme brain fog so bad I couldn’t think straight. now, day 2 I feel anxiety and brain fog come in waves still. I’m not sure why but could this be my brain adjusting? I can barely think straight and I don’t feel much...

A lot of people on this forum talk about how you should be getting a gf and someone real to spend time with and have a healthy sexual life with. ive been thinking of asking for numbers my question is, how do you do so without getting aroused? like, I will likely get a boner if I ask a girl...

Hi all, I have been doing well in my streak for the time being. I had been vore fetish addict and live cam addict for a really long duration. But I'm able to watch out my behavior. However, I feel kind of inner void though. And the void seems huge. A voice from the void says - What do you have...

My first interaction with social media was at the age of about 11 when I saved up some money to buy the cheapest tablet I could get. I found Youtube and was immediately hooked with the concept of it. I would spend hours watching gaming videos than trying then trying to replicate them on my...

Hi, I am new to this forum, but already knew about Nofap for a long time now. I am in a great relationship for 10 months now, with a very loving, supportive and cute girl, which I really love. She never gave me any reasons to dislike or even lose feelings for her, but in the recent past there...

Hey guys, I'm new here but I was motivated to join after what happened. Yesterday was my 21st birthday and I decided it would be funny if I joined a cam girl website (Chaturbate), considering I've had a relatively healthy porn habit and could handle it, (I know a lot of you don't agree that...

I relapsed less than a week ago after 64 days and since then I have been living like a fiend. I've been masturbating and talking to girls for 10 hours a day and I can't seem to stop. I feel like I undid all of my progress and like my life will never get better. I have noone. I don't have family...

Hello I’m 19/M I am addicted to masturbating and have let my compulsive sexual behavior ruin almost all of my friendships with my female friends. I started masturbating at around 8 years old and remember doing it every day for a long period of time not knowing what I was doing but only wanting...

Don't think about it, just don't relapse(you can add italian accent and gestures to create emphasis)

Hello friends I want to share with you because I have strange feelings these days I have already done almost 4 days without porn masturbation and orgasms . I am limited to any sexual content I am focused on work, fitness progress and goals in life but I feel sad lonely it's like i'm missing...

Hi. It's my first time here in a year and I'd like to share with you all how I currently feel about my life and porn addiction. I feel like I've reached a dead end with my life and there's no way out. I'm soon 21 years old and I've wasted my whole youth on porn. I've been feeling bad about it...

Hey everyone, it's funny but this website came up in search while actually browsing porn...Well I guess I need to introduce myself. Not sure if real data is necessary but I guess I will stay with my username for now. I live in US, immigrant from Eastern Europe, 29 years old and right now is the...

My boyfriend wants to stop both masturbation alone and together (the two of us) and I completely support him. The thing is we don't know where to begin because it only leaves us with few options 1) We continue what we are currently doing and remain miserable. Right now, we have dry sex until he...

The title is Prayer Malfunction. Lately I've been praying almost every single day usually in the mornings. Just to note I am very spiritual but not tied down to any religion groups. Just because I don't see the separation in them and why we have them in society when they bash each other. But...

My own notes based on Shinzen Young, a well known buddhist teacher, about overcoming addictions: He himself was heavily addicted to marijuana for over 10 years. "The person with a compulsion is fortunate." Nature is forcing that person to have a transcendent experience. If you can deal with...

I had a dream the past night that i think symbolizes all that this addiction has done to me that i am trying to recover. In the dream i'm in the back seat of a car. I don't know who is driving, but there is the girl i like sitting next to me. We're not talking, just checking our phones and...

Okay, the title says it all- i need help. My streaks have been lesser and lesser- i have just started typing this after my third PMO session using (i hate to say this) some hentai. I still remember the streak i used to be on two years ago- 76 days. I want to be on that streak again. Yet i have...

Hey guys, I have struggled with PMO, MO and P fantasies since I was a teenager (I am actually 25). During all this time I didn´t think I had a problem. I just thought it was something common, something every of my friends do. Nevertheless, during quarentine, and specially this year where I have...

Hi all, I am recently signing up to the NoFap forum to try and reclaim my life. A little backstory: I am 25 years old and I have struggled with porn addiction for 10 plus years. About a year ago I realized that I had a serious problem after asking a doctor why I found it difficult to get and...

Personally, I am one of those porn addicts who only realized that they had a problem once their dick literally stopped working, and still I kept going for a long time. I have had several long streaks but everytime I end up relapsing out of fear of being damaged forever and not being able to get...

Hey all. So I'm 62 days in. I've experienced a lot of benefits, but I still deal with what I assume are withdrawal symptoms. I want to see whether or not anyone else experiences this one particular symptom. Your body doesn't want you to do anything. You have the desire, the motivation etc...

So here we are, relapsed again. A tissue full of cum in one hand, a tiny limp piece of meat in the other. Fuck this shit, i thought i slayed the dragon a long time ago but it still lives in me. This will be a story about falling down and getting up, because everybody does sometimes. Let me tell...

I have been doing nofap for a few months now, when I first started I easily got 2 streaks that were 12 days and then 17 days, but after that, I just kept relapsing more and more often. nowadays I relapse almost every night and I feel like im losing motivation to do nofap and im honestly starting...

Growing up I started getting mad crazy over the female figure, in 3rd grade I was staring at girls butts around the same age and I got in trouble for spanking a girl (funny story actually). I started out pretty early looking at girls a certain way, where kids were collecting Pokémon cards, I was...

Hi, im Problem88 and I need advice for my boyfriend who is copping with porn addiction. He used to do reboot and to succeed when doing so but lately there has been some issues... he relapses and it affected our intimicy baddly this time and I just dont know how I can help him... So if anyone as...

Hi there, This is my first time sharing so apologies if its long winded. In March next year i'll be 35. I discovered a PMO when I was maybe 10 or 11. Through my teenage years PMO was always seen as 'normal', all my friends seemed to be doing the same thing. No one really spoke that much...

Hello everyone. I need to use internet for work, and I blocked every possible porn site / category. Then, every day I search for my "fix", and at least one new site containing porn is being found, then, PMO. I tried going out in the world, push-ups, some non-computer activities, thinking, a...

Hello guys I feel like I use porn as a coping mechanism for my loneliness and lack of intimicy with people on my life. I'm especially addicted to porn when I can interact with other people. Either if it's just chatting about some kinks we have, Roleplaying or also trading porn. I think I do that...

Hello there! I'm 22 years old. Me and my boyfriend have been in a relationship for about two years, he's 29. He told me that for time to time (maybe once or twice a month) he has this kind of compulsion to browse some porn sites even though we made an agreement we won't watch porn and he...

My girlfriend of 3 and a half years broke up with me a few months ago. I knew it was coming, and it was more of a mutual thing. But it hurts like hell. Porn was the easy distraction. I stopped using porn for the last year of our relationship. I felt guilty everyone I used. But this breakup put...

My story after knowing NoFap for 5 Years - I don't exactly know why i am writing this. Maybe as a way to review and get things of my chest. Yesterday i went to a psychotherapist for the first time which i will mention at the end and wrote my four most relevant questions down. So i joined this...

Hi all I've gotten to the point where I need serious help. I will try to describe my story. I am 25. When I was twelve I discovered M. I think i was 15 when I discovered P. While the simplest things aroused me in the beginning, I later had to watch more and more intense things to get aroused...

I've just failed my 9 day streak and I feel awful with myself. I was doing so well but I slipped up, ended up breaking it. Is there any tips on what to do when I start slipping down again? Video games were working for me but I let my mind wonder and next thing I know I was looking at p*rn. Felt...

Dear sisters and brothers of mine, I am am an ambitious 21yo guy from a small village of India. Currently I am pursuing Engineering from one of the prestigious institutes of India. I aspire to become a person who could always help others who are in need.....but due to masturbation and porn...

Hello friends, I was thinking, If I should really write here in success stories section or not! Here legends wrote about 2 years, 90 days, semen retention and 500 days and many many things. And here I am just completed my 30 days that too after long time. Then I thought leave about others, my...

Hello all. I am making this post in order to share my thoughts. Today I relapsed hard again. I find myself feeling weakened by my continual self sabotage. This is due to me having no self control over what I end up watching. Just today I watched a YouTube video containing a cute woman and then I...

Hello! Writing this all in plaintext, since I'm lazy. A story about me, and probably about you: I'm nearly 20. Started with porn at the age of 14, got into hardcore porn at the age of 16. Always had an affinity for animals, which actually led me to get into Furry fandom. From that point... it...

There are a ton of resources out there about recovery, negative effects of porn addiction, the truth about the porn industry, dopamine addiction, etc. I think it would be cool if we could collectively provide any helpful resources we've found (outside of NoFap) that might be useful to aid others...

Hello, glad I finally joined this, already feeling a bit better after reading through some of the threads. I am a male in my mid twenties and for the past year and a half I have been dealing with a pretty nasty addiction to cam/live porn websites. This has resulted in mental health problems...

Hi all, I’ve had a masturbation addiction for as long as I can remember. First exposure to porn was when I was 10 years old. At first it was not necessarily porn although it later became porn. My year when I got addicted to porn was 2014 and 2015, it subsided in 2016 and then in the middle of...

I’ve been off Porn for about... I don’t even know. I just know it been about a month and half or so, and so far has been pretty good I’ve been going to the gym and gaining good habits. I’ve also been trying a little harder in therapy recently to help my anxiety which is what I am diagnosed with...

Hi all hope you are well I am 20 years old and I started NoFap to make my life better and to make me stronger at the gym, and around the 3 week-5 week mark my hair would start falling out excessively and it makes my hairline recede. i was wondering how long it takes for the hair loss to stop...

Hello everyone! Well...here I am. I am 21 years old and have consistently masturbated since I was 17. Oof. I hate that I have to write that. I had a traumatic, one-sided relationship that mostly consisted of me being high on hormones and abusing what was a truly awesome friendship. After...

Hi everyone, I have been watching this fetishporn video's for over 9 years now. It definitly fucked up my brain and my life. It all started with an innocent foot fetish. But after 9 years of watching porn daily it has developped into other crazy kinks like: forced bi, cuckold, being a slave...

I've watched a good and eye opening documentary about the root of internet addiction. I could relate to all of the contents in this documentary. If you haven't watched it you can find it on Netflix. This documentary mainly focused on the internet addiction but I want to share this documentary to...

Hi am ashu! 25 yrs old ! Addicted to porn which is quite obvious! But there is another addiction I want to overcome and that is 'snuff'. I have been consuming that product for the past 2 yrs and it has severely affected my respiratory and oral health! Caused tonsillitis two times and uvulitis...

So recently I have broken up with my girlfriend and have I finally noticed how bad my porn addiction has gotten. I have done NoFap before and have done over 100 days, wow how much it helped me (serious). It pushed my drive and made me want real life sexual experiences. I don't think porn even...

Hello Guys, i am a 20 year old Guy currently fighting my Porn Addiction aswell my Porn-Induced fetishes like foot fetish and femdom Fetish. I recently found a Girl my Age that does Foot/Femdom Stuff and we understood each other well and we wanted to meet so we can do it togheter, since she is...

My addiction is not just to PMO; rather, I am a dopamine addict. As a student, much of my day is spent studying on the computer, but I notice myself watching YouTube nearly all day (gaming videos, compilation videos, TikToks, pranks, etc), simply skipping between videos and chasing dopamine...

Hello my brothers, Iv been addicted to porn from a young age, I'm 28 now, my transwoman addiction started 5 years ago and i cant at the moment get the same feeling about women as i do from them. Its the intense rush, it feels like cocaine when i think about them or get triggers but I don't want...

Hello my brothers, Iv been addicted to porn from a young age, I'm 28 now, my transwoman addiction started 5 years ago and i cant at the moment get the same feeling about women as i do from them. Its the intense rush, it feels like cocaine when i think about them or get triggers but I don't want...

Hello Rebooters, In the absence of discord servers which encourages a strictly focused scientific view on retention ,I founded Rational Retention discord server with the idea of collectively collaborating facts ,information,strategies and of course all around science that backs up the idea of...

Hi, I put this thread into the problematic sex forum yesterday but of course it equally fits here so I hope you will forgive my repetition. I've summarised everything I wrote so far below, any comments would be very gratefully received. I basically wonder who has tried hypnosis as a way to help...

Hi all, I've never actually contributed to this forum before but the more I have read, the more I see the same issues coming up over and over again to do with shame, guilt, powerlessness, anger, frustration and so on and so on. So many people looking for solutions to fix their symptom, but the...

Gary Wilson might be wrong about the whole D2 receptor downregulation/desensitization hypothesis. So he could also be wrong about the "permanent" damage. In 2017 I participated in a porn addiction study at University Medical Center Groningen in The Netherlands to investigate if porn addiction...

Hopefully this will not be a long ass post. I’ll try to keep it short. For some time I have been suffering from anxiety, I was diagnosed about 1-2 years ago after having some hard time finding motivation even for waking up, or even eating. But I cannot stop thinking about how this all links up...

I went on the site and started swiping, and then I thought to myself wtf am I doing , it's so habitual and enticing at first when you think of that beginning and middle of your session, but then you remember how bad you feel after.

Hello beautiful and brave people, I am a new member here, I have been aware of the movement for some time now and tried nofap few times before without success (I end up relapsing easily), however I recently decided that enough is enough and started my streak hoping for this time to be the last...

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Have you tried a 12 step group for sexual addiction? What group have you used? I have engaged in 2 different groups but the culture really didn't help me. There is a group here that I think is really helpful: https://emotionalabuseintervention.com/12-steps-to-change/

Hey fellas, so basically i had a 21 days streak and which by a silly mistake ended last night. i still can't remember what the hack just happend but yeah! i relasped. I don't know what to say but the temptations get out of hands sometimes. Even today i had a strong urge. And I...

I have tried abstaining from masterbation and porn countless times now, but can't make it past 4 days.

How does porn addiction compare to things such as a alcohol addiction or a heroin?

I've been a pornography addict a long time ago. During all that period unfortunately i was not aware that Pornography and specially porn destroyed my life completely... I want to make you aware that most of the videos on these porn websites that are showing your brothers and sisters in humanity...

So, I'm currently on a 17 day streak of not consuming porn and have gone 3 days without any PMO. It's just over a month since I first posted about being very ashamed of some of the things I'd watched, things that wouldn't have normally turned me on, and deciding that I needed to change. In the...

I'm been PMOing since 11 years old till now (22). I was addicted to straight/lesbian porn, and somewhere along the way I found transwoman porn and eventually gay porn. Now gay porn is the thing that arouses me most. I discovered nofap and hocd stuff around 2 weeks ago and have tried numerous...

Today i'm the happiest person on the planet ! I did a 15 day streak of no tobacco :emoji_grin:(cigarettes and snuff), i've started tobacco and porn addiction 8 years ago. The reason why i'm posting this on NoFap is I've found that the advice and information here is pretty useful and helpful...

I'm in middle of something and a thought pops up - "Hey, i'm craving to fall in the same pit. Let's relapse." This is a point where i even forget how i suffered terribly due to PMO addiction. What should i do in this kind of scenerio?

Hello everyone, my name is Redmonkey54. Currently 27 years of age, male and ready. Ready for what you may ask? For this addiction nonsense to stop. I have been heavily into porn since my middle school years. It slowly started with Girls Gone Wild infomercials that plastered the late night...

Hi All, this is my day 1 of nofap and I decided to make a nofap account because I want to read all the threads and try to do nofap. The purpose why I signed up nofap just to stop my addiction to looking at pornography videos and masturbating since it’s not going away for me if I try to giveup...

What are the effects of porn on the brain of compulsive porn user (MRI scans): Dr Valerie Voon at Cambridge University send normal people and porn addicts into an MRI scanner to find out their brain activities while they watch pornography. For porn addicts, the ventral striatum, the reward...

I had an account on NoFap before for quite some time, but I deleted it after having repeated failures and ultimately giving up on myself. I have decided to return because I want to conquer this addiction once and for all, and I know that I cannot do it alone. It's good to be back.

I was getting MW, spontaneous erections and could get hard by masturbating to fantasy but i relapsed 3 days ago (started having porn flashback right after orgasm) and now i am back to PIED/flatline. Today is my 3rd day of Monk mode. This is my first thread/post so let me share my history -- I...

I am gonna paint this wall with my mind, please don't mind if i say anything offensive... I am a male 24 years old working 9 to 5 job now, i started masturbating and watching porn years back, maybe 10 years i don't even know as i have been doing this dog shit thing all my life and now i think...

I have to thank you all. My friends irl don't care about their addiction/habit to watch porn. I'm the only one who wants to get rid of this addiction that I know irl. And my friends' attitude towards PM certainly doesn't help. You know, your environment makes you, you. This community helps me to...

So, I have a problem with YouTube (the smart phone application). It's a great application and I listen to podcasts, various lectures and some music there. How ever the problem is I often get distracted with the recommendations and this leads to huge amounts of wasted time and sometimes to even...

For those who don't know Larry Wheels, he's a big name in the Fitness industry. His last video had me thinking a lot.. No one is immune to PMO. In his case, he went on a negative bank account balance because of Cam Websites. Communication is key here. He's overcoming this by talking to his...

Hi everyone there, it's been quite a while that i'm stuck with my fetish - "vorarephilia". I am aware that it's stupid and in fact i hate this stuff but it has trapped me like a mouse in the cage. The problem has been with the taste which one develops. If one finds garbage delicious, they'd do...

Hi all ! My first post here ! I have experimented with Nofap for almost 2 years now. Go on short streaks of about 5-12 days. My longest has been about a month, but that is because of my OCD pills which considerably lowered my sex drive. I do not want to depend on them and organically go through...

I believe it was Freud who said that will power, or the ego, is a finite resource. Meaning that once will power has been exhausted, it's extremely hard to fight the primal inner desires (ID). Those desires being virtually anything which brings pleasure, of course the most powerful of them...

If its not one thing, its another. Or turn one addiction into another.... Today i realized at day 23 that although Ive abstained from PMO, and my e-cig addiction, Ive started to drink. And a drinking habit is definitely something i don't want pick up. The thing that registered this as a problem...

Hey everyone, I'm a young male in my 20s who has been using PMO as a coping mechanism (or more of an escape) for anxiety and depression ever since my teenage years. It has been really bad at some stages (I'm talking masturbating 3-6 times a day pretty much every day of the week), pretty bad at...

This is my first thread on this forum. Another thread I had was one when I was 24 years old on a different forum. How I wish I could say I'm all clean as a 26 right now (27 in 5 days). I am not. Honestly, things got a bit worse even. From Femdom I managed to switch to Findom, which is...

Hello everyone, My name is Felix, and I'm from Nigeria. I'm 23 years old. I've been watching porn and masturbating for 9 years. I look forward to quitting this nonsense. Right now, I'm battling with concentration and poor memory retention.

This is a long post and contain some potential triggers words. I recommend reading until the end, it can potentially change your life if you implement it. My story Hi guys, my name is Juliano. I'm from Brazil, my first interaction with porn has been a magazine when I was very young. Soon...

I have been a porn addict for 4 years and my addiction got more severe over the course of time and i cannot resist the urge to watch porn my longest streak was 8 days but after that was not able to be porn free even for 3 days I'm just 15 years old i have lot of my life to spend i got a dream of...

So, I have been addicted to this kind of porn for about 4 years now, 11 years of PMO in total. I have had several instances where I am with a female and I wasn't able to obtain a full erection or even sometimes not at all. I know I am straight, but I have indulged in a few transwoman escorts, and...

Porn/Sex addiction is a taboo to talk about, but it is more common than we think. These days a lot of people struggle about it, but not so many people are open about this, because of shame. I have struggled with sex addiction (porn, prostitutes, swingerclubs, sexparties) and always felt a shame...