anxiety

If you are reading this the headline must have caught your attention. If the headline caught your attention, you must be in a real bad place. Fortunately there is some hope. Unfortunately it is going to take some time to undo the damage done. There is good news though, most people, even in the...

Yes, I am a cheater. I was cheated on once before. It is probably one of the hardest things I have ever had to experience. I swore to myself that I would never do that to another person and I believed it. I lived by that for most of my life. Then I became the cheater. There are a lot of...

Yesterday a fell after only 3 days of no PMO. Today I got back up. I didn’t do PMO this morning and I also didn’t drink last night or smoke weed and also didn’t smoke this morning and skipped caffeine too. I’m swing in the raging sea of anxiety and it’s peaking hard right now in this moment. I’m...

hey guys i am coming back to you after a long time being abstinent of this forum. this is a long text but i do it for myself and also for other people who are intersted to read it and to know more about my story and also for people who suffer themselves maybe it will help them. other people who...

I've been on this site throughout many phases of my life (from age 16 to 25 now) and looking back, while I have not made much progress thus far toward quitting pornography, I have made significant progress in other parts of my life thanks in part to this site. I first started writing here when...

Do you struggle with social anxiety/anxiety? Since quitting porn have you felt a difference in social anxiety? Do you think that porn addiction can be the outright cause of social anxiety developing? What do you do to help/manage social anxiety other than quitting porn? What do you think...

23 year old 6.3 tall curly hair model build with fck boy body I get all the time jokes from guys " like damn you must be having excel spread sheet for all the hos " or I hear rumours of girls talking about wanting to fk me. But I am wasting all of this as I'm terrified of woman I get alot of...

Dear fellow fapstronauts, Levita here. 30 years old, been watching P half of my life. Have had periods of abstinence once in a while, but never longer than a couple of months. Currently at day 36 of PMO (hard mode) and going quite strong. In my personal journal I have been writing about the...

Warning!: I'm new to this forum and I have no idea what counts as a triggering subject, so be warned. Honestly, I don't even know how to properly start this, but I will try my best. [In a nutshell at the ending] I'm 18 years old now, but I started watching porn when I was really young...

Hey all. I MOed recently and I feel really down. But what I'm worried is that I relapsed and that I'm basically gonna be treated like crap. I lost my aura and I'm weak again. It's so demeaning to relapse like this; how can I get over this and resume my day normally? What's funny is that when I...

So I've made it to day 82, my og goal was 100 but after seeing how bad the withdrawals and urges for PMO and especially the outlandish fetishes have gotten since about day 79 (usually they are very bad when i wake up and when i go to bed) I think I'll have to atleast make it to 6 or 8 months...

For context, I am Christian. I was in a conversation about faith and mental health, and I was asked specifically how renewing my faith assisted in my mental health (struggle with depression and anxiety). I did some reflecting and wrote a lot and thought I would share it here: I had been...

↑ 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...

Hey guys, on a streak thats too important to fail rn. I notice that when I hit day 10 my anxiety is out of control for about a week, whatever I worry about multiplies by 10. Last time it was an irrational pregnancy scare, this time its losing/not getting back my gf (we are on a break imposed by...

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 remembered... i used to save up girl big butt, wearing strings panty, Bra so thin it's only covered nipples pictures etc... (Those are not nudity) It probably like last year, but now i already deleted everything... I starting to trembling and anxiety building up... I'm questioning myself...

Hello, english is not my first language, sorry with my mistakes. Nofap doesn't make your voice deeper. What happens is that all the anxiety we have in our throat, chest, goes away and then, when we speak, we sound so much powerfull and clear, but not necessarily deeper. I used to pmo since i...

I was watching a funny video... where the guy gesture spider man shooting web... the lady besides saw that did the horny face... also not just that how about other videos like women biting their lips horny etc... does those count as relapse?

Hi guys. I did 68 days of nofap and 58 days of monk mode. But still anxiety(social anxiety and general anxiety) was there, it did not disappear. Then i left the monk mode. Is this normal that anxiety was still there?

Sorry if you don’t understand my english but i tried my best to explain my situation please help... I have seen a thread a month ago in which someone was saying that if you are preparing for a though exam then you can mastrubate once in a week.Im suffering from alot of distraction and not being...

Has anyone here got any experience with insomnia and taking sleepers or any meds to help? I'm currently in a bad flatline with dead libido and suffering from extreme anxiety which is causing me to get nearly 0 sleep maybe 1 or 2 hours a night if I'm lucky. I'm on day 15 no pmo after a bad...

Hello, this is my first time posting on these forums ive been struggling with PMO for 6 years now. My current streak is about 30-40 days, ive never made it this far before, i have noticed that i have more confidence in talking to people, ive never had the confidence before to post on internet...

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...

Please, i need help : Before you start reading, you have to know that it's not my first time on nofap, i had multiple try and so multiple relapse in my life. Im on nofap COLDTURKEY since 2 week, i emphasise on the coldturkey because before that i was still looking at porn in some way, i was...

I get this FOMO-type feeling whenever I try to mentally prep myself for a long stretch of abstinence. Something I've wanted for a decade or two is to be 90 days clean. My biggest achievements have been periods no longer than about 3-4 weeks and I've only had a dozen or so of those since I...

Hello! I feel a little uneasy about joining and writing about myself on the internet but I'm trying to reinvent myself so who gives a f**k. Last night I was re-reading a book called Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k (great book highly suggest it) and in one of the chapters P was mentioned. It got...

I remembered about couple months ago... Also recently i already asked about flashbacks... It was later a slippery slope, won't consider relapse yet... But now this time... A flashbacks that making me felt like i was relapsed long gone... My fucking nofap process... I'm about to lose my fucking...

I learnt some band-aid solutions: - meditation (acceptance and mindfulness towards the feeling) - ignoring the feeling and carrying out your typical agenda - reading or reading a book aloud (is not successful but it gives partial relief) - cold shower (distraction, temporary feeling of...

Does it make sense that now in my streak(12 days) I've been waaaaaay more socially anxious? Like the anxiety really spiked up, I met a friend of mine to study together, and I was super anxious because I spoke silently and almost didn't have anything to say, no eye contact, all this stuff. I...

And it happened again... It all felt just like an ocean of gratification that turned into a bottomless pit of regret and helplessness. I know that this sort of thing doesn't make for a relapse, 'cause it was unintentional. I just can't help, but feel strange about it. This feeling of...

My biggest breakthrough in my self-improvement journey came when I no longer lived as a victim. I used to believe that I had no control over my life. I didn't feel like I had a choice. What I've now learnt is... I CHOSE to be in a relationship that didn't allow me to develop. I CHOSE to...

Hello everybody, I want to discuss something I saw on a YouTube video that has made me think. For context, the video is by a channel I really like called Better Ideas and is titled "what to do if you don't like your life". The video itself is not about breaking addiction, but its ideas can be...

Hi all! I'm a 16 year old whos been on the subreddit for a bit but has since came to the forums because the word reddit is enough of a "trigger" for me. I am insanely nihilistic and have day dreamed about the cliche, angsty teenager who decides to drown themselves in sensory overload of pleasure...

Wanted to make a post to see if there were any other sufferers of any kind of mental illnesses from all walks of life. Men, women, trans, old, young, from any part of the world on this forum. I myself am a sufferer of Bipolar II, Major Depression, C-PTSD, Anxiety, Insomnia, and that's it so far...

I’m not new to NoFap or the forums, I decided to make a new account because I had fears that people I knew were able to access and read my posts that I was making. I have no real idea if this is true or not, and find myself in a bigger problem than the first time I joined NoFap. I have found...

I'm 17 years old and am a porn addict. I used to watch porn every day to feel better and to reduce my social anxiety. A few months ago I discovered that porn is really bad. I thought it was just a bad habit but it turned out that it was a real addiction. I'm currently on day 6 without PMO, but...

Do you guys get Panic Attacks a few hours or days or weeks after your relapse? I feel like after my relapse, I mentally feel so weak. I feel like I am not able to fight people, I feel like I am verbally closed off. Like when people say stuff to me, I cant even respond. But I notice maybe when I...

I've recently started reading and watching videos related to Islam. I've already declared that there's only one God (Shahadah), given Zakat and have been reading the Quran for guidance in life. However, I've also struggled with many negative emotions (mental health issues) that have led me into...

New Fapstronaut here -- I want to find ways to manage my anxiety and difficulties in life besides using porn. I know it has negative impacts on my life - the biggest for me is just the sheer amount of time spent masturbating and looking at porn. If I use porn for one hour every day, that is 365...

I am 38 years old, been using porn for a long long time, but in the past 3 years I really ramped up on the porn consumption by 10x and was literally glued to my screen almost everyday watching porn all day long while jerking off (but in 95% of cases not ejaculating, I only ejaculated once in a...

My primary motivation in starting NoFap is to better myself for the sake of my girlfriend. With that being said, I have had mixed sexual experiences with her. We have tried a few things several times, and most of the times I end up going soft on her very quickly. I was fortunately able to...

Hi, I've been doing NoFap for almost 2 years now and I still feel like a complete failure sometimes My longest streak was roughly 7 months long, it was around the time my friend with benefits "broke up with me" and I slowly started falling into really serious depression (mainly because of...

Had to get this out somewhere. Never shared anything on a forum like this. I’ll spark notes where I’m at: started watching P and M in middle school; in the early days of forming my addiction I also had a lot of catholic guilt, which contributed to even more anxiety and, in turn, more dopamine...

hey guys, i've been struggling with loneliness. Its been years since I've had any success with girls. When I do start talking to one, my anxiety amps up to 11/10. I overthink and overanalyze every text message. I start to wonder if I said the right thing, (ex. does she like me? Am i being too...

Hi ! It's been 14 days today.. and life is soo much better with PMO gone.. I'm kinda 17. And PMO was around from when I was around 11. So, since the PMO gone, and my social interactions getting better.. This girl proposed me. I immediately said yes, but the next day I was full of anxiety up to...

Whenever I go to view the newest posts here, I find myself reading the first posts of newbies. After a while they seem to all sound the same: Argh, I’ve been struggling with PMO addiction for 7 years. My girlfriend cried when I couldn’t get it up, and now I’m depressed all the time and anxious...

I recently started a security guard job on a multilevel building. I basically have nothing to do all day, just stand in front of the building from time to time and I basically get to be on my phone and sit inside of the lobby whenever I want to. It's literally the easiest job I have worked (...

For starters, I’m a real-life lesbian, aka *not* the kind you’ve seen online (I can assure you that 95% of that stuff is fake af). Also, I’m probably older than some people on here. I’m on the autism spectrum as well, though I don’t believe that has a huge impact on how my brain responds to...

First and foremost, I'd like to stress that, although the push-up is a great exercise, this isn't really meant to be a fitness thread/challenge. I'm going to do 100 sets of 10 push-up reps minimum in public, and I'm challenging you to do the same, for your own good. "Why would you do this?"...

I feel like this is a losing battle sometimes. I had 17 days now I’ve relapsed 3 days in a row . I just relapsed like 15 minutes ago. I’m Tired of this . I don’t know what’s wrong with me . I know it’s bad and I know it’s hurting me . For some reason that lizard part of my brain takes over and...

On a quest to do better for myself and my family, I'm making some big changes in my life. I'm moving back to a place I once called home. Also, I'm furthering my education and skillset so that I can start to do better financially. There's a lot of uncertainty for me right now. I usually...

This is my first Thread, so if this does not belong in this category, please tell me. I am 19 years old, and i have been addicted to porn for about 10 years now. Most of the things i`ve seen have been things not involving real humans, as in Rule 34 and E621. I`ve seen it all, Furry, Loli...

Hello everyone. I really need help with an issue I've been facing. To start, I am a recovering porn addict who has made great strides in overcoming this problem to the point that I don't feel I need it at all on my good days; i used to watch porn multiple times a day but now im down to a few...

I've been doing lots of research in the last year due to my own trials with PMO. It became clearer to me how completely damaging fapping may be for the human body and brain. I'd read scientific studies about androgen receptors, and the endocrine system. Testimonies from people who'd experienced...

Please help me. I am stuck and can't break from this cycle of guilt and lust (towards porn). I try, but every time I am overpowered by the urge to get a quick relief, get it over with as the imagery keeps on disturbing my thoughts my focus in whatever I am doing, only to fall in a deep dark well...

I'm not really sure how to start this introduction but I'll try. Having a porn addiction sucks, big time. Porn addiction and social anxiety has completely messed up the way I communicate with women. The anxiety might have been there first, but porn made my anxiety much worse as I have trouble...

Hello fellow fapstronauts, About two weeks ago, after a relapse session I started to feel pain down there and it seemed a little inflated. after a few days later I appointed to an urologist because I still felt pain. As long as time passed I became more and more anxious. I thought that I damaged...

I've been sexting girls since I woke up. Literally the first thing I did was open my phone, download my sexting apps and start sexting random girls. It's 1.35pm now and I haven't drank anything, I haven't had breakfast. I smell like a dead animal and my hair is all fucked up. I feel like a...

I have been on Nofap for more than a couple years now and after many challenges and relapses, many sprawling withdrawals and difficulties because of fighting such addiction, I have tried everything. From simply fighting and meditating to food, disconnecting from socials, careful sleep, exercise...

If you can't address the trauma, then you can never truly get rid of the addiction. It's simply a self-medicating mechanism to cope with emotional pain. I have been an addict since I was 13 years old and I'm 21 years old now. I completely understand the mechanisms of addiction and I have been in...

Hello everyone This is seagulls here again. It’s been about 5 years since I have logged back on to nofap. I am really struggling with my life now. I have basically made no improvements in the last 5 years . I really don’t know how to beat this . This is going to be long and I do apologize , I...

Hello guys, I'm on hardmode, trying to fix my mind damaged by porn. Since I started I have great improvements in my mood, brain fog and muscle gain. And I really glad for all that. But also, I had a major Social anxiety, especially while talking with strangers, doing anything in public (training...

Hey guys, I'm new here. I've been trying to quit for years without success. After a crisis in August, when I reached rock bottom, I developed reflux and my anxiety spiked (depersonalization, death anxiety, fight flight freeze mode all day, intrusive thoughts, etc.). In October, still recovering...

I've been stuck in a cycle of relapse for weeks now and it's draining me physically and mentally. It seems like everytime I try to stop I realize how isolated and lonely I am and I just can't cope. I know really well what sexting and porn do to me, but I keep choosing it because it's somehow...

Hello, I'm on my recovery, but seems I facing with sexual anxiety. I mean, being about to have sex is make me bunch stressed (just thinking doesn't). I remember it was a problem when I was on pmo. I've read a lot about NOPMO benefits such as confidence and etc. But maybe some of you have sexual...

Hi Fapstronauts, Really need ur inputs . My story : I lost penis senstivity after a intense masturbation sensation 1 year ago . Tried lot of things but nothing worked to regain sensitivity on glans and penis I m also suffering from porn induced ED from 4 years. Cant do it with real girls but...

The Story of my addiction I was 15, when I watched my first P. Before that first P, I watched a lot of nude images, I watched FTV swimwear models, etc. It's been 7 years and now I am 22 that I am addicted to that stuff. Things I am suffering now Addicted to adult sites, especially chat sites...

Hi! As the subject says, I am new to the NoFap forums but I have been aware of this awesome movement for a few years. Did not know there was an actual forum though, I only remember the reddit thread. Anyway, I've been fapping while using porn for about 15 years now and I'd like to stop. Simple...

Hello fapstrounats, I hope you're doing great in this year. I've decided to write again, because I'm going through a really bad crisis again, this time a little more strong than the previous ones. Basically I've been relasping time after time due to my anxiety, low self- esteem and other...

Once you relapse, it's so easy to continue to dig your graved deeper. A couple of reasons to why I relapse are usually more easily then not preventable if stop myself before It gets out of hand. Tiredness Loneliness Jealousy Anxiousness Stress Depressing wave of emotions. A lot of these, I...

I'm not going to go into my full journey and backstory, that'll be for another day. I have the same general backstory that most have here. Here's where I'm at right now: 23 years old, longest streak was 180 days and I just recently slipped up after a 56-day streak. As I told someone in a...

Hello everyone, I hope someone can help me. I have severe OCD since I was 10 now i’m 26, and I had HOCD and other OCD themes before this happened. My OCD became much worse two years ago because of severe Groinal responses. Groinal responses I had gave me unwanted orgasms. I hate to even...

Hi everyone I'm new here I'm looking for advice, I am currently on day 49 Nofap, Bit off a background, I have been addicted to pornography as far back as I can remember maybe 13 years old, I am currently 28 years old, soo 15 maybe plus years off an addiction, over the last few years it really...

Hey everyone, I had a relapse 3 days ago and then I did it again today. The plan was to let go for a few days and start my streak today so it'd be day 1 but I just broke that. I have no idea why I did it. I wasn't "that" stressed and I wasn't sad either. I was numb you know not happy not sad. I...

Only a 1 day without pmo and I have huge urges to masturbate. I can resist it for now, mainly, becouse Im struggling with serious mental illnesses. Finally managed to contact hospital. Im afraid to take any meds but I definitely need some help against my anxiety, depression, panic attacks...

I just feel so screwed. I quit PMO for good a little while ago, maybe a month or two - I stopped counting. I've been trying for years and finally kicked it and have no interest in porn or anything else for that matter. Which is the problem. I don't remember the last time I watched porn but I...

I cant stop watching porn, I always fail trying to reboot. Again I went in to p sites to fap, I just cant resist it. I feel completely dead and my brains are dying and Im ruining my life. I have no idea how to make it. This shit is impossible when you have went too far.. :( Great life I had..so...

TL;DR: I’m simply hopeless and there’s no cure for my case Hello, what I will write right now is basically a manifesto and conclusion of my personal failures, so sorry if it’s going to be long. Guys, I’ve been battling this addiction for two years now, I’ve been addicted for eight years...

I cant resist the urges and flashbacks from porn. Its like a hunger, you cant go on without it just like when you eat the hunger leaves but eventually comes back again. Feeling helpless, any good tips?

Hey everyone. I haven't posted here in a good while and I figured I'd make a quick post to share my progress. Today is day 105 of my streak and it's been a long road. The pits of my despair First let me start off by telling you about what my situation was like at the peak of my addiction. I...

So, during my reboot(Day 23), I've really noticed a lot of anxiety, insomnia, and extreme stress during my reboot. It gets so bad that when I'm not stressed out. I feel exhausted. Emotionally and physically to the point where I can barely even function. I know these symptoms are completely...

I thought it my be cathartic to answer say why I want to abstain from P on here. Perhaps people would benefit from doing the same on this thread? It damages my sex drive, which damages my sexual relationship with my wife. It provides an unrealistic perception of what to expect from sex, which...

So I've finally gotten a good streak. About 9 days. However, I've been getting really bad insomnia. Does insomnia go away? It's really bothering me. Haven't been able to sleep these past couple of nights. This is the worst anxiety I've had in awhile.

Ok so I've written posts about this before and I'm scared that I might be gay. Long stry short, I used to think I was straight, had crushes on women, dated women but had very little sex, instead I used to watch porn, show myself on cams etc... Eventually I started liking gay porn too, and that...

... but I'm afraid of what it will do with my relationship with our common friends. I have always been struggling with depression and anxiety, but recently it's gotten worse. I know one of the reasons. My now ex-bestfriend. Just over a year ago I realized just how toxic and manipulative he...

This is my first post on this site. I'm a 20yo guy, working at a factory and going to university this autumn. Never had a gf, not even close, never had any kind of intimacy so I'm pretty lonely and inexperienced. I was never taught to socialize, I was pretty sheltered. Of course porn filled that...

Guys i have been trying to have a nice streak at nofap for like couple years, probably 4. And its okay that i relapsed so many times because i have been grown in this process. And im really grateful. But after years later thanks to the that SPAM REMOVED (spam code #001) - REPORT TO MODERATION (the porn version of it) (havent...

Hey there, I just relapsed this morning when I woke up horny, again. Maybe some of you guys can relate to it... That impulsive doing gave me no time to even think twice. I feel like I have no control over my mind, over my body. I really don't know what drives me to do it. I did not use porn to...

So, this might be long. I thank anyone who took the time to read it and especially if you have any good advice on the matter... So this is the first time im doing this online. Trying to open up and be as "exposed" about my issue as possible. I am a 28 year old male. I am a virgin. I grew up in...

Heyo I'm looking for some advice and other people who have went through the process of rebooting. Heres some background info on me: I've watched porn from 15 years old (Now 20). It intensified gradually reaching almost daily usage from 17-18 years old. Smoked weed from 17 years old time to...

Okay, I need to write this here. This is the story of how it popped up. I was a happy straight guy, I only liked girls. Before watching porn, I remember searching nude photos of girls on the internet and my heart started to race very fast. I started watching porn at the age of 12 and it was...

Nf day 14. I have had wet dreams 5 times throughout this 14 days. 2 today and 3 more than a week ago. Never got them in my previous streaks. I am having pe since i started nf. Also have ed but i do get morning woods. 80% hard. I'm always in flatline. My wet dreams arent like your normal wet...

Porn is totally free and available at any time 24/7. It's like getting heroine for free all the time. who's gonna hate this? it's a big pleasure (big dopamine) = big happiness! No one right? BUT if you see its effects on your life, then you must hate it. I'm reading about the effects of porn...

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...

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...

I am asking this question here because I feel there are people like me here. so the thing is I was watching the news around 4 months before and It was shown that a grandfather raped his 2-year-old. obviously, I was like what a monster would do something like that and a fear got into me what if I...

My fight start at 00.01 of 21 dec! I decide to start with no porn and masturbation because i can feel that my life is not good with this bad habits. So i decide to fight with u guys and i WANT to win against PM. I decide to permit me sex with my gf. Today i'm at home alone and i'm feeling the...

This is my first attempt to undergo a nofap challenge. my goal is 1 month, I passed the first week however I am getting huge headaches and fever like my head is going to explode! AND CAN’T STOP THINKING ABOUT AN OLD GIRLFRIEND I HAD 8 years ago. Thinking about when we used to have sex! is this...

This streak has been absolute hell from the first week until now and I'm losing my mind. I have constant panic day in day out, I'm talking speaking in front of 100 people anxiety levels. Whenever I go outside my anxiety skyrockets and I get anxiety attacks. I can't even think straight, my head...