cycle of addiction

Hello this is my first time posting. I am in deep and profound struggle. I should start from the beginning. When I was younger , I used to go to Asian massage parlors a lot. I have been in Korea for over a decade and it is easy to find these kinds of places. It was very thrilling when I was...

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...

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...

Let me begin with saying that I’ve always been a troubled kid. I didn’t do anything bad, but I got into sexual stuff at an early age. I was either 7 or 8 years old when I discovered porn on my brother’s phone. When I was 11 I started playing my first interactive porn games. And by the age 14 I...

I have been trying to do NoFap for a long time. My best record was 47 days. On average, i could last a week, even longer. But since 2 months ago, I'm stuck in a relapse cycle where I relapse every 2-3 days. It's like my power is gone. I don't know what to do. So how do i get out of this relapse...

So I haven’t watched porn for a month. It wasn’t as awful as I thought it would be, and this is the hardest I’ve tried to stop watching it. Before I decided to try hard at quitting, I was getting bored with porn, which I saw as a good thing, bc now I could escape the cycle. It got to a point...

I was struggling with the title of this thread. I wanted it to be as accurate as possible, however I did not want to overwhelm anyone nor cross into territory we need not to in order to gain the greatest benefit possible in here. I think we can consider ourselves prisoners of habit if we...