recovery

Did your brain fog last long into your recovery? If so, how long? I’m 25 years old, and have been heavily addicted to porn since I was 20, but have watched it since I was 12. I’m currently 28 days no p, 27 days no mo, and still as cloudy mentally as ever. In previous attempts I remember my brain...

Okay so I have to make this post because I’m going through a mental storm of negative and confusing thoughts… I started watching P when I was 11 years old (I’m 21 now) and it was ALWAYS vanilla P and pictures of hot women for 8-9 years and then suddenly I started developed a fetish for Blowjob...

I am 25 years old and currently day 19 of a reboot. This is my third attempt. In the past, my reboots through 25 and 34 days have matched up with the generally accepted common “timeline” for reboots. I.e. days 1-10 you progressively feel better, days 15-25 or so you flatline etc. but this time...

Here we are then, 2 years on from what sounded like a 'happily ever after' ending from my last past. I have to admit, it's a good feeling looking back at my younger self enjoying the fruits of a porn-free life for the first time. You get a thrilling high when you fall for a girl for the first...

hello, i think i am on day 81 right now i have been thinking again about touching myself as if i could relapse, which i did not. it's been more than two months of NO Porn and NO Masturbation with a few not important wet dreams. i am a bit lost in life... i can't be trusted by people, i...

I relapsed yesterday, there’s something called camsites, it’s where you can basically tell the girl what to do and control everything and flirt. it sucks, I’ve been on nofap for a while and when I relapse on just pmo, my brain feels the usual sluggish depressed anxious way that comes with...

In the last post, I embarked on the beginning of my reboot journey, sharing the history of my relationship with porn since a very young age, and what suddenly changed a couple of weeks ago. I've successfully completed 8 days today. Yay to me! In this post, I thought I'll share some observations...

I'm one month into my sober journey, and I haven't given into my PMO urges. Even if I end up seeing porn when I'm not looking for it, I don't give in. That is a sign of me growing strong and actually putting in the effort to get sober from this horrible addiction. I'm already feeling much better...

Leaving this video here for those who understand that too much dopamine throughout the day is destroying your reboot..

Hi Team, I want to get straight to the point: I have been recovering from PIED for almost 27 months. My PMO addiction spans over 16 years and I currently sit in my early 30s. My overall progress involves a handful of misguided Orgasms from trying to rewire but not much else. After 2 years of...

So it's been a couple of days now since I haven't been getting proper sleep due to flashbacks popping up in my mind when I want to relax and go to sleep, they are very hard to get rid of and they make me lose plenty of sleep....usually because I really don't know how to get rid of them so that I...

Hello all, I am a 19 year old male, out of the great state of Colorado. It has been a little over a year since I started my Nofap journey, and my longest streak was close to 50 days. I got my EMT cert May of this year, and wanted to create a thread to see if there are any other EMS/Fire guys on...

I consistently keep on seeing multiple posts along the lines of “PMO Addiction is the devil’s work”, “I wish I didn’t have this addiction” etc etc. Many of us, myself included, just notice what the addiction is doing to us. But have we noticed what our addiction is doing for us? At the age of...

I have a quick question since I was out shopping today and it had me wondering, sexual ads we see in stores and out on the streets does not count as a relapse? I came across a slightly sexual ad on the street and some clothing line with a sexual images on it was worried on whether that counts as...

I have a question for anyone that can relate or want to chime in on it: So lately I've started having a fight or flight response type symptom in which I randomly get startled by things and it's very annoying because when you're trying to fall asleep it wakes you up startled.....almost like being...

i wasnt really focusing on the images, but i thought i had to relapse to clean the streak because i looked at pics (i didnt mean to, i sorta just stopped avoiding them, but not focused on them or searched for them) i didnt get aroused, but would you guys consider this a relapse? i never touched...

Do you need motivation to resist the urge to bash your head against the wall? No. Because there's no benefit to doing that. It's easy to not do that right? Everyone talks about the reasons NOT to fap instead of focusing on why they do it in the first place & getting rid of those illusory...

I know what they say… if your questioning it and all that. It must be a relapse. But I really don’t know. I am 95% sure it isn’t. But what do you guys think. An hour ago I stumbled across a triggering image and i almost went back to it but I quickly scrolled past and got out, I got urges after...

is waking up cold a sign of withdrawal and recovery? ive been waking up cold the last two days and feeling more tired than normal. im getting through this just curious.

So yesterday for a lil back story, I fapped pretty much all day, felt like shit, I feel like shit now. I woke up and said damn I already looked at stuff so I need to fap, but I don’t want to fap. (I fapped so much I just don’t want to anymore now). my question is , if I start my streak now, (I...

I was feeling so good. Day 2 and a half. I just started feeling so dang good. And I fucked it up. I fapped. I was so horny and I immediately regretted what I did the second I o’d. This is torture. God please help me. I want to live life and feel the way I was intended to feel. I messed up so...

Yesterday while I was at the store I came across a product with a slightly sexual image, which made me worry whether that counts as a relapse or not....I know sexual images are everywhere in our world but I am still wondering on whether that affects my reboot or whether it counts as a relapse...

Quitting masturbation is very difficult, I know, I've been there. But it's a whole lot easier, if you do certain things, or have a certain kind of help, and mindset. These 6 tips in this video are not some random tips picked from the internet, but they came as a result of wisdom gained from...

I've been very worried lately since I watch TV and browse the internet, and every once in a while a sexual image will pop out of nowhere and I've been very anxious wondering to myself if it's a relapse and if it will have any effect on my recovery.....despite me not being in search of those...

Hey I have noticed I have been experiencing migraines, and some melancholy. I know these are withdrawals. What should I do?

Are migraines normal on a pmo reboot? I often get them when I have long nofap streaks. How do I treat them while on a reboot?

I'm almost 2 months into my recovery and since last week my brain has been obsessively worrying about everything related to my recovery, worrying about whether something is a relapse or not....constantly having compulsive thoughts of worry that cause me a great deal of anxiety.....my brain also...

Ok, I'm just going to be blunt. I like fat girls. When I say fat girls, I don't mean your "plus size" model. I'm talking about girls within the 400-600lb range. I get aroused by feeding them and oiling their bellies. I could totally date a fat girl if I wanted to and have a lot fun but I know...

This video sums up why NoFap will save your life!

Whenever I come a cross a sexual image on TV and on the internet, my brain keeps telling me it's a relapse and that it's my fault even though I was not searching for that type of stuff....does anybody have any types on how to deal and get rid of those compulsive thoughts? They've been plaguing...

Guys, recovery is totally possible. Don't give up!

I fapped for a few days, after a decent 12 almost 13 day streak. Today, I told myself that this was it, I was going to abstain for good. But before that, early this morning I fapped 3 consecutive times. Of course I felt bad because of the fapping, but I didn’t feel these head symptoms I have...

So I suffer from a lot of certain sexual ocd’s hocd, etc. sometimes I arousal test out of anxiety to make sure that I am not aroused to something. is this a relapse? I don’t want to get horny, I just feel the need to make sure I’m not aroused to something that I don’t want to be.

I’m writing this just to get something off my mind. I relapsed late last night after around 12-14 days I did it multiple times (full pmo) The extra times were because of terrible ocd intrusive thoughts during orgasm. (I’m not a pedo, but visual thoughts about a child). the ocd makes me feel...

I was looking through my Snapchat, I couldn’t tell if it was a girls face faintly or a guys face and still can’t now bc it was blurry and dark but I kept looking, (I try not to look at girls faces bc they arouse me) and I stopped before it was too long but if it was a girls face (because of the...

Lately I've been getting very anxious on what counts as a relapse every time I unexpectedly stumble upon a sexual image on TV or on the internet, today a friend of mine shared a Twitter link with me and when I opened it, it had a sexual image and this gave me lots of anxiety.....I would like to...

Hello, I have been struggling with porn for a long time. Whenever I watch pornography I feel like it is an impulse something I do without thinking whenever I try to resist I can’t focus and when I fap I feel like my ability to focus has increased and I can finish my work. The problem is porn...

Last time I fapped was just now, I made a vow to myself I wouldn’t fap again. My thoughts tend to spiral out of control. I had a terrible thought last relapse during o. I don’t want to get into it, not to sound dramatic, but not goods I was going to fap again to reverse the thoughts, but I...

Not a long read at all, just read all of it for understanding. Today, I relapsed sadly. I did it multiple times. My cold got a lot worse throughout the day and I feel bad. I was going to relapse later and then start my streak. I’ve been watching movies (not necessarily looking for women) but...

I just started a new streak today. I’ve been fapping alot less and getting through hard urges more. today, since I woke up, I was fine, I’ve lasted down a couple of times today and it’s like I have a vertigo/dizziness and it feels like I just stopped spinning. Has anyone ever experienced this...

I went 8 days without pmo. I relapsed and I fapped for a day, I got right back on the horse and today (day 2) I feel a lot better but I have a really giddy (I don’t know how to describe it) feeling. And my thing is really senstive. I’ve been having a lot more urges than usual as well, but really...

hey guys, so I'm writing this to start over again and journal myself. so I started watching porn when im just a 12 year old boy going through images. And i became aware of my porn addiction in 2019 i was so consumed by it, it left me broken after a break up with my girlfriend. it affected my...

...that keeps making me crazy. Hi there, I need to adress a certain topic with you, because I'm feeling very odd about this situation. You see, when I was 11 Years old I found a Porn Clip, which has stayed with me for over 10 years. You could even say it is somehow a part of me... which is...

Greetings my friends, Hope you all are for some motivation, insights,strategy : well, this might help you. The article is divided in following pieces: 1)My story 2)Why I decided to leave this burden of Pornography? 3)My way, that WORKED FOR ME: 4)message for you These will be in written in...

Hey guys, I have this ocd you can call it, where I stress about having a good start of streak. Making sure that I don’t think about anything sexual at all or rub my pants any certain type of way in the beginning. last night , I last fapped, I reset the counter, but I had this ocd like my streak...

So to put it short, I made another thread earlier because.. I “intentionally” watched p in my dream. it was a lucid dream, I was sort of aware it was a dream, and could control it. Is what it means I knew I had to stay away from p, but I wasn’t exactly remembering why I had to in the dream...

I’m making this post because, Even though it may be obvious, masturbating is terrible. it’s so fucking terrible. I cannot even describe it. Nothing comes good of it. Whatsoever. There are absolutely no benefits. it’s a worthless act. Stay away . It’s easier said than done. But just imagine...

I just got off a bad pmo binge. I’ve been having irrational ocd/anxiety. that same anxiety is the reason why the binge went on for so long in the first place. like I’ll relapse at first, then I do it again, and then after a few times the anxiety gets worse and worse so I feel worse, therefore...

Hello, i Am 17 year Old,I started Nofap Like 3 months ago, but i failed over and over, my longest streak was 19 days, Now im day 17 And im getting serious about it. i am addicted to porn like for 3 years. FEMDOM/BDSM/CUCKOLD/FOOT FETISH(foot fetish i dont mind tho, but yeah) im seeing...

I am part of this forum for almost last 7 years though I start putting serious efforts much later and I realized after many failed attempts that porn/sex addiction is grossly underrated. I still haven't completed my 90 days reboot but I still consider myself successful to an extent, read on to...

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...

I will not talk here about the benefits of recovery only, but I will also try to tackle the fundamental issues of self-perception and the distorted sense of reality which I suffered before and after I came across this challenge, I can tell that some of my views here may offend some brothers and...

I was just waking up out of a sleep. I was about to have a wet dream or something. I was really horny for some reason i felt my dick on sliding in my pants and I started to get aroused from it. I honestly can’t remember if it was on purpose. I was sooo aroused. Does this count as...

Hello dear people I'm happy to announce that me and couple other brothers decided to start making podcasts on the subject of recovery from porn addiction and related subjects. Our first podcast: Our second (today's) podcast: I hope these continues podcasts will be able to help many...

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...

I am thankfully at an almost 180 day streak to heal PIED, and I have been avoiding all porn like the boogieman. However this morning I accidentally saw a porn PFP on youtube and though I did not get aroused (which would have worried me had I not known that other porn addict recoverers noticed...

Day 127 So I was in the middle of an erotic dream and I felt myself at the cusp of O and I stopped it! I friggin' stopped it! I felt the control in the muscle and I prevented myself from spontaneous O in my sleep. I woke myself up just in the knick of time. The dream was highly charged and...

Hello. Does somebody know if remembering P scenes affects the rebooting? Is it equivalent to watch P? I know we can't control memories coming and going in our minds, but I try to distract my mind focusing and doing other things. Even if it doesn't affects I'll keep avoiding because these...

I quit pmo for 11 days and I relapsed one week ago exactly. My head was in the right place and I started to really feel the benefits again. From there, I binged for a few more days, until Sunday April 25th. I happened to get really sick (maybe just a seasonal cough) and that helped force me out...

Anxiety, brain fog literally to the point where I have trouble reading sentences, head pressure, slight malaise. I have a trip coming up, I’m going to be gone for a week. I just don’t want to feel anxious while I’m down there on my trip. What do you guys think about this?

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...

So yesterday, I was in a pmo binge. I need to get out of it so I could continue and get on with abstaining and improving. I binged for 3 days and it causes a lot of anxiety. Last night, my last relapse was around 5 pm. I was going to do it again later after that, so I wasn’t really careful...

Today is a day to celebrate: it has been 31 days since I went porn and masturbation-free. For those who are interested, here's the backstory, here's the tools I put into place, and here I am to inspire you and motivate you to take the action you need to get out of the addiction to porn...

One of the things that happens when you give up an addiction that has basically run your life - whether it's fapping, food, alcohol, weed, getting angry or gambling- Is that the sun comes up in your soul and you say to yourself, "OMG...all that time wasted. Wish I could get that time back."...

What's the difference between PIED and severe PIED? how much longer does severe PIED take to heal?

In first comment let’s introduce about myself! Here is my story from the beginning. Started to M (masturbate) at age of 13. As boy I wasn’t addicted to P (porn). I used to fantasize about naked girls, sex. Very often had erection and did MO (masturbation + orgasm) multiple times per day. Quality...

Last night, I was looking at pictures of something (not trying to get aroused) and I stumbled across images that got me aroused, I tried to ignore them multiple times, but I got so aroused I almost fapped right then and there. Now I have urges still and also I feel a little bit of pressure in my...

I think I’m going through flatline, I’ve been having symptoms that are really weird Today, I woke up with brain fog and trouble concentrating, I feel very dull, a slight pressure in my head, too. I’ve never gotten a completely loss of libido personally from a flatline, maybe it just depends on...

I’m going to keep this as short as possible. And get straight to the point. I started doing nofap 2 years ago, I’ve had long streaks and short streaks, I gave in and I tapped after quitting for about 4-5 days in March 11th, unlike a usual relapse for me , (just p and mo) I ran in to something...

I'm rebooting because using porn for years gave me erectile dysfunction and killed my sex drive. I want my dick back and I want my sex drive back. How about you?

Hello bros, what would happen if we watch porn? Then we run away from our tasks and problems, so the problems dont get solved, but new problems and tasks add to it, so we run away even more with porn, so the problems get bigger and bigger. Till we someday realize how much we have run away from...

I was a member about 3-4 years ago. I was doing well for a short while and fell off. My plan is to be much more involved this time around. I hope it helps. My shame and self loathing is killing me. I am really going to try to get this and hopefully leave the sick behavior behind. I feel...

Through the past 30 days or so I have been getting flashbacks to XXX scenes and images spontaneously despite having no libido at all or at that time. As the days go by the flashbacks seem to get older and older, like from things I've long forgotten about over 1-2 years ago (sometimes 3). I was...

Hello guys! Like all of you here i was motivated to stop fap and porn. Reached 1 year. Could not overcome my addiction. Here is my mistake. When i got great urge, i didn`t fap but was watching porn in a frenzy for the whole day. This shit happened to me every 2-3 months in that year. THIS DID...

(Bit dramatic) Sorry if about the length and that this reads a bit loose and fragmented, I cant think straight anymore. Ive been 'doing' Nofap since around December 2018 since then I've managed to break a daily pmo habit and had streaks lasting a few weeks to 30-45 days however at the start of...

Starting a log. Tracking progress everyday. Keep failing and need to try something new. Having community support will help me with this horrible addictions. Cheers everyone

Hello everyone, This is my first time joining a forum to help me with recovery from PMO addiction. I've been trying to stop on and off for 2 years now, but always without any help. I am currently 21 years old, and am in my first year of university. Started PMO when I was 12 years old, and...

I saw this drop dead gorgeous girl in my convenience store the other day, so I did what I thought I would never do and I asked for her number. She gave it to me real fast and we talked for a bit yesterday. Turns out she was a couple years older than me and out of college, and since im 20 and...

Hello everyone I've been reading on this forum for years but never actually thought of posting ill give you a bit of background -PMO since very young age im 30 now -fit and well, smoked here and there and drank here in there I've lived most of my life having good erections with porn and...

About 2.5 months ago, I had to split things on with my fiance (which is now my former) because she had some not-good things going on. Bless the situation. That was hard for me emotionally and I relapsed hard on alcohol and porn one week after our split. I watched porn for like 3 hours straight...

Tomorrow will be my 60th day porn-free. It's my longest ever streak and it has had some postitive effects on my life (particularly in my relationship/sex life). However, the cravings just aren't subsiding. I quit porn and smoking at the same time and I can honestly say that I rarely think about...

My streak begins now. I’ve done nofap and was doing great in terms of my life, but then I got caught up in doing pmo frequently for 6 months. But tonight I start to fix and continue improving my life. I need to start now and stay away for good. I’m gonna do a thing where I try to keep checking...

I have been having major urges, a few times I thought about and got really close to relapse today. I’ve been fighting urges and a couple of times I’ve had fantasies I’ve killed quick and once I was getting off the bed and I felt myself get really horny from my thing running off the bed. I went...

About a year ago, give or take a few weeks, I returned to this site. The last year have without exaggeration been lifechanging. And yes, my recovery has been the sole foundation for that. Let me elaborate. To make a long story short, compulsive porn use has been a part of my life ever since I...

Hi there I’m on day 119 without pmo. I’ve realised my mental patterns are extremely problematic even after removing the addiction and this leads to high levels of stress. I now want to do a 12 step programme to overcome this issue, however I don’t have a sponsor and I don’t have a clue how to...

I can't tell you how much this community (along with 2-3 other forums) has meant to me in helping me escape the PMO trap. I'm a 30+ year old guy who has been trying to quit porn since he was probably around 19-20 years old. I want to share my story of recovery and all the advice I have for it...

I started my streak at around 12:20 Wednesday (two and a half days ago), and last night I considered relapse, I got through the urge, and made it through. Today, I’ve been having urges for the most part today (I can tell my brain is craving dopamine) I made it through today and tomorrow will be...

Some people on this forum I have read say that nofap shouldn’t be taken too seriously, that abstaining from pmo shouldn’t be treated as everything. But the things is... Without NoFap and abstaining from pmo, there isn’t anything. Regardless of what some think, I strongly disagree with such...

I don’t know why this is happening, but last night I relapsed. I did it 4 times, on the fourth time I started doing it already so I just wanted to finish and get it over with. So I can continue on and start my streak. After finishing I put it away and started my day counter. this morning, I...

I was taking a nap just now and I had this dream about starting to look at p. I’m not going to detail it but when I was waking up I was started to get really strong urges and I woke up before any thing happened (wet dream). The thing is, I remember waking up and moving around and my thing was...

Is deleting P material stage 1 in the process of recovery or something which often takes weeks or even months to achieve through strength building? Hello all, I'm actually reaching out on behalf of my partner (with his permission of course) - we need some advice please. My partner has...

You won't be willing to abstain from "something" if you don't have a strong reason or know about the consequences of doing that. Prepare yourself for about a day by learning about the harms of watching porn, negative effects of it on the main areas of your life - Productivity, Career, and most...

I've been two months strong, and the last month went like a breeze, but now I am starting to have urges and unwanted thoughts. Even though I know there's no going back, I can't seem to block out these thoughts. Can anyone give me some advice? Thanks -Sack

Hello all. I am 20 years old and have been fapping and watching porn for about 8 years and just started my most recent streak for the 90 hard mode reboot last month. I began this journey because of 2 reasons. One, I was disgusted at my own addiction. After watching porn and masturbating I felt...

Hello. I want to share my experience with you and ask for your tips and opinions. I am 27 years old now. I started masturbating at a very young age, like 7 or 8. I did not even know what I was doing. Just liked the feeling. Later, at the age of 10-11, I started watching porn. About two...

I just turned 25 on October 20th I have been struggling with this addiction for over a Decade... since I was 14...A decade of watching pornography? you can only imagine how much it has effected my brain. Today is my 7th day of abstaining from it and I have not made an attempt to search or look...

Hey i'm 17 and have been PMOing since I was about 15. Since COVID started, I have been on and off trying to stop sexual fantasies, porn and masturbating for a while now and most recently remembered to use this site and try to stop again. No "real" relationships have ever worked out in my life...

I have spent quite a bit of time reading the yourbrainonporn website but I still don't really understand what exactly happens when we quit porn. From what I understand, as you abstain from porn the neural pathways that are connected to porn start to weaken and this will eventually make it so you...

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...