social anxiety

Hi, I'm struggling with a pretty serious problem for me. I managed to distance myself from porn, masturbation, alcohol, drugs, smoking cigarettes and unhealthy eating. You could say I've gotten back on track and I'm extremely proud of it. I was addicted for a long time and porn accompanied me...

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...

So Im 28 years old. Discovered porn early at around age 9 or 10. Been heavily leaning into it for dopamine or a way to escape the pain of the moment and reality and cope with the stressors of daily life since then. Id say from the age of 10 to maybe 3 months ago I have fapped or edged at the...

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...

i've been browsing nofap stuff for a little while now, it's been very helpful, thx guys :) i've been using porn consistently since elementary school, but I think some time in high school it became a coping mechanism for social/general anxiety. it's felt like a downward spiral socially and...

Hi my fellow fapstronauts, Today i am starting my nofap adventure because i'm starting to realize how my addiction to femdom is starting to reach a more extreme side and it has a negative influence on my self esteem. Since i started watching porn which was about 9 years ago i have always been...

Need some advice. I was wondering if years of porn and masturbation abuse throughout my puberty phase might be affecting how I socially interact with people. I seem to be better but sometimes when I'm talking to people I'll just feel this hollow, dissociative neurotic feeling where I have to...

Hello everyone, There have been a butt load of skills and knowledge since I have started my nofap journey. Learning the Guitar, reading a lot about mental health, exercising frequently, meditating, rewiring my mindset through audio books, journaling gratitude. In short, I'm more active and...

*Possible triggers* This is my first post, and it’s gonna be a long ass one. So to my bro’s and sis’, sit tight LOL. What I’m going to say is gonna be all over the place which is a reflection of the current state of my being right now. Plus brain fog is absolutely crazy lately, feel so...

Heey guys!! If you clicked here i know how you feel.. it sucks yeah But this doesn’t mean that you must feel this way. Right ? Seems something that you can’t control, something that stop you from talking with friends , going to a party or thinking that you’re worthy. The costant feeling of...

I am suffering socially awkwardness i've always wanted to get rid of it, i've always wanted to connect with anyone get into the social flow state, and i heard that nofap obliterates shyness. I've tried nofap before my longest streak was 10 days, i felt no benefits, but i still have remaining...

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 (...

Inspired by Jia Jiang's challenge of the same name, I am going to seek out one rejection every day for the next 100 days. The aim of this is to fortify myself against rejection and looking like an idiot - that when these things happen I will be able to shrug them off, and will be more willing to...

Hey everyone, I'm M23 I wanna share something here and need your opinions too (sorry guys my English is not much good) --right now I'm on nofap MO 25days and P relapsing after every week)-- I'm watching porn and Mstrbn twice weekly since last 9 years I know it's too much but that's the truth...

Hi there guys! So I've been on and off NoFap for a few years with little success until very recently. I have been perusing the benifits and it seems like if you actually do nofap then it is supposedly supposed to help out with focus in social sitsuations, as well as work sitsuations. I'd like to...

Hey there guys! So, I've had this problem of social anxiety since I've been a teenager, and right along with that, I've also been pmoing to some pretty weird stuff. I have been trying to quit for about 3 ish years and have seen many benifit youtube videos and some of them include the...

Hello my name is Ethan age 25, I do not really have much talking to people.Growing up I had a lot of classmates in school. Although I would talk about hobbies and stuff we liked, there was never really any substance in those conversations. It would never progress past small talk. I was afraid...

I have been a social butterfly for as long as I could remember. However, there are two major problems with my relationships (both platonic and non-platonic). 1. None of my friendships are extended to after school settings. -> Over the past few years, I have moved nomadically from friend group...

I'd like to state that this is my first time ever posting to the forums here on NoFap. I have tried this program out before, but I had little to no success. The longest I had previously lasted without masturbating was three days. However, I didn't mind given that it had no clear negative effect...

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...

Hello, My name is yash (male) and i am 18 years old. Its been 4 years when i started and soon it became my addiction. And at this small age, i just enjoyed it doing 3-4 times a day. Due to this i became very skinny and i feel fatigue, lack of motivation and confidence, distracted easily, not...

Mostly people that I don't know well. Women more than men. I think it's more that I feel unsecure and unwell in my own skin when I meet with strangers that I actually fear the strangers. I'm not sure about my role, I can't express myself well, I reflect a lot what I'm doing instead of just being...

It is well known that pmo destroys lives and steals futures. I've been pmoing for about 7 or 8 years to some pretty sick stuff, and have been on the road to quitting for about a year now. Over the course of the past year I've developed an anxiety disorder and have regressed in my social skills...

Buckle up it's a long one. Discovered porn at 11, viewed in some capacity it at least once or twice every week with rare gaps of a week, two weeks even sometimes 3 or so of no porn of any kind here and there. I'm 26 now and while there have been many girls and women over the years that I have...

Im struggling to leave my house, I dont even know why is it so hard, outside of my regular anxiety and its symptoms. I have a time for a psychiatrist coming but Im afraid that I cant even get there. Sigh, I just want to leave my house, go for a walk and see my friends. :(

Hey all! Returned to the forums after a long period of absence. Been through all circles of hell in the past 2 years. Just a little about myself - I'm 31 y/o male, last time I dated was about 6 years ago. I've been addicted to porn since I was around 15-16. Started nofap also around 6 years ago...

Look i get it, the title is cringy. I just feel like i’ve sort of missed out on an important state in life where Im supposed to learn the skills to talk to girls/people. Aside from that, I’m at 2 weeks now on NoFap! Now that I've been going for so long I've been having this greater and greater...

I'm such a fuck up, you know what I'm tired of hearing? I'm tired of hearing my school counsellor or my soccer coach telling me shit like 'It's in your head', 'Get out of your own head' and the most useless of all 'Combat/Challenge those negative thoughts'. Surely, one would think, if they were...

I have always been introverted and had very few friends in my life. I am currently 21 and for the last 2-3 years I have had only one real life friend with whom I talk every couple of months. I have trouble talking to new people, making friends, being in a group of people, having a conversation...

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...

I'm 19 years old, single, virgin, never had a girlfriend, I will admit that I am pretty confident in my hobbies, work, spiritual life and religious life, I am also pretty confident talking to men as well, but if I'm being honest I can't stop being shy around women (particularly bigger women.)...

Tired of being alone all the time. In the comfort of my own room because I’m too afraid to step out of the house fearing that someone will actually speak to me or me having to speak to them. I can do small things like ordering food at the drive through for example. There are rare times where...

I started NoFap at the very last week of 2019. Before then I didn't even know about the horrible effects of PMO on your mental and physical health, as well as your social life. I especially didn't notice the social life part of it because of the pandemic. But now that I've been going back to...

Hello everyone. I’ve been on and off NoFap for a little over a year. Thought it be good to share my addiction story and how it’s effected me. When I first tried masturbating I was very young, not even 12 years old. For some reason though when I would stroke I wouldn’t feel any sensation on my...

Hi everyone. Over the past few months I've been closely evaluating why I relapse into pmo. Isolation is the one thing that keeps presenting itself as the single most damaging cause. How do you combat isolation you might ask? In this post I will share some ways to deal with isolation in order to...

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...

Very lost. Made mistakes. Not a troll. Just can’t communicate. Think I have Asperger’s syndrome . Alone all my life. There’s no purpose for my existence. HS sucks. Social anxiety sucks. Mental illness sucks. Pedophillia sucks. Being retarded sucks. I hope I die in a car accident. You guys must...

So im pretty into this girl that I know, she's friends with my best buds sister and his sister has been trying to set us up from the start from when we met. Which was about 3 months ago. Man putting it into words really shows how slow I am at this but atleast im trying again. Seriously though...

I am 26. I started masturbating since 8th standard most probably. Thereafter continued like a freak through 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 1st and 2nd semester of university. Everyday atleast 1 or 2 times, and maximum of 7-10 times sometimes. I used to be very anxious of beautiful girls and women...

In social situations, the fact that I have no friends makes me needy. Not solely around girls, it makes me needy around everyone in general. I can get very paranoid quite easily, I'm susceptible to blackmail and I can be a massive people-pleaser. I've noticed that friends only come around if...

I was never really looking for my 'why' or my 'purpose' on this journey, until it came to me. It took away my grades, my friends, potential love interests, I couldn't even look people in the eye! Two filthy bastards- one of them called PMO, the other called caffeine. Together, they help...

In about mid-February I was on a twelve day streak, and I started talking to a girl from the Czech Republic who was one year older than me. We were talking on Reddit before that at the start of January, it was in February that we started talking to each other on Discord. This girl wasn't...

I am new here, I just want to check in the community whether anyone has this experience whereby you can't be yourself around a certain type of girls and sometimes guys that intimidate you in your mind? for example, I have had times where I sat across a female co-worker but I just can't think...

Hi, my name is Rustam. I live in Uzbekistan. I heard about Nofap last fall. And since November I have not stopped trying. My record is 13 days. But rarely I can stand for even 4 days. Now it's my 13-th day I am 27 years old. i am an actor in theatre. My problems are depression, mindfog and...

I have been meeting friends and socializing very bad in the last 4 years, one of the reasons being porn. Before that I was pretty good on socializing and I had many good friends and a gf. Now its very hard for me to talk to anyone, that i dont know. Ever since i started watching porn I have...

Hello this is my first post here. So I am teen 15 years old and I have Social Anxiety,speech problems and depressipn.I was always shy when I was child but i think my shyness got worse when I started fapping (at 11 or 12 yr). I am fapping like 1-2 times a day and after i fap i feel social anxiety...

i started very well in my past days to recover from my addiction, but got down and get trapped any how with this addiction this pornography and vulnerable mindset for sex making me distructive in my lifestyle, growth, communication, friends and family this is very dangerous threat of my life...

I request everyone to give me some suggestions to my wierd problem. Can porn addiction leads to "speaking problem". Means i dont have social anxiety but I'm having problem in speaking. Is it linked to my porn addiction or not? Please suggest...

Hello. I'm on streak since 1st January. Because of compulsive masturbation and porn using I've become ani-social, insecure and depressed guy. I finally pull myself out to get that shit out of my life. I survived first major flatline, now I'm feeling better, but the problem is, I think that I...

Hello. Tomorrow I'm going to school ending party. I'm nervous as hell. I'm on NoFap since 38 days but still have some social anxiety issues. I don't know how to dance. I never been really drunk, I'm scared that I might vomit or loose conciousness or do something stupid... Maybe it's all in my...

Hey, plz give me some advice I am really struggling, lemme just introduce myself, I am 17 male, and I am on Nofap day 1 and I am leight depressed after school, I think a major reason is because I didn’t eat enough in the morning and had a lack of appetite afterwards due to constipation, I...

I'd like to do a poll to see how many of you guys use social media. I don't get out a lot and use it as a poor substitute to socialize. Please be honest, there is no judgement here. Feel free to explain your poll choice.

Hey guys, I started Nofap during October and have few relapses during this period (I fap 3 times during the last 90 days, my longest streak is 60 days). And still i don't feel the benefit that others have, sure I feel more energetic, my mind is clearer, I feel more focused. And it is also true...

Hey everyone just wanted some advice if possible. I started PMO back in around 7th grade or when I was 12. I’m 20 now and a lot has changed. I had absolutely no problems before I turned 16 or 17. That’s exactly when I started edging to porn though. I would do it once or twice a week for an hour...

So basically I have gone over 200 days now without porn and my withdrawals are killing me, LITERALLY. My withdrawals include panic attacks and social anxiety. I know these are withdrawals because I am a very sociable person but now even a simple together with friends is enough to give me severe...

I’m a 27 year-old male diagnosed with Aspergers’ since I was 3, grew up an only child, am great at studies, even did a BA Degree in Digital Media Production but really struggle with socialising especially women. This hasn’t been helped by the fact I was pretty much addicted to masturbation...

I unfortunately relapsed the other day after a 50+ day streak and, well, today wasn't the best day to be a college student. So I am an animation student at a college in Massachusetts and today we were pitching ideas for our shorts. At first, I was calm, collected and felt alright, no great but...

Hi! I am 19 and I graduated back in may! Nofap has been a struggle for me ever since 9th grade. The longest I have ever went was 30 day's. my streak usually last's 2 weeks on average. I start collage in January and I really wanna be clean off of porn by then so are there any tips on this...

I never saw myself resorting to an open forum for porn addiction. I’m 26 years old and have been attempting NoFap for about 2 years at this point. I’ve Never been a compulsive fapper but a steady 1-2 times a day fapper...since I was 14 years old. I feel the symptoms of anxiety and...

It has probably been mentioned a couple times, but it never hurts to read it again.. and again! If you have serious PMO-withdrawal-problems and doing it Coldturkey is too difficult - ... Do it step-by-step. That means -> Don't fap for 24 hours and if the urge hits you big time, masturbate (1...

Since I learned about the word I think I misinterpreted it as something exclusively bad for oneself. Recently I've read in a psychology book a small passage that was about how anxiety is not solely a way of giving a message of fear but that actually it is a necessary feeling for having a healthy...

All the single fellas here, this is for you. For the next 7 days, I want each and every one of you to go up and talk to a cute girl. I don't care if that terrifies you, I don't care if you're gonna piss your panties when you do it. Just do it. Don't ask her out, don't ask for her digits, just...

Not sure if anyone would find this interesting, but I'll post it here just in case. Ideas from Cal Newport, Alastair Roberts and Jordan Peterson have been stewing in my mind, and I'm ready to act. I'm making this as a log of this experiment, both my intentions at the beginning, and the results...

Hey everyone :) I hope you all are having a nice first day of the rest of your lives. So today I want to share my NoFap story, and hopefully bring some hope and insight to people on a similar journey. I first tried to stop PMO when I was about 13 years old, after about a year of it. I was...

Hi there guys and gals! Well, I have been trying to quit for something more than a year. Porn has reinforced my social anxiety, depression and general low-selfsteem. Mind you, I'm not saying it is the cause of it but it certainly reinforces all them. I was born from an unloving couple. My...

I was induced into porn in a very young age (8 years) and im addicted to porn and masturbation since that age, i want to stop this. Right now (with 15 years old) im suffering some things that porn caused to me like: PE (Premature Ejaculation), Social Anxiety and being anti-social. I think 30...

I am 24 years old. I have been masturbating since i was at 8th grade. I discovered Masturbation by accident, i would say. The problems i face since then was..social anxiety..fear of public speaking...sweating heavily when i gather the attention of a crowd on myself. I also sweat when i talk to...

Hi! Hope you all are doing great! I realized I have a minor problem. I've been dealing with my insecurities for years, and I truly feel like I made a progress. I feel better with myself most of the times, and I've become a very open person, I don't feel insecure talking to other people and...

Hi everyone. I’ve been using porn as a transitional “moment filling” experience since I was a very young man. Years of re-enforcement led quickly to a compulsive masturbation habit that continues to this day. I’m 70 now, and am plagued by a host of serious health issues, including prostate...

Hello everyone, I'm a 20 year old male and I've never had a girlfriend before. I've had a masturbation and porn addiction for about 8 years. This addiction has seriously affected my confidence. When I meet girls for the first time, I get really nervous when talking to them. Also, when I'm with...

If you can't read the whole story please answer me this: *** Psychiatrist will probably prescribe me antidepressants for social anxiety(for two or three months), how much will it affect my recovery and benefits(the only three I got are more energy, I can look people in the eyes and I'm...

Hi Everyone, I have recently recovered from prone masturbation habits and am currently on day 11 of my NoFap journey. Currently, i do feel strong craves for porn and some anxiety, but i am holding it down nicely. Anyway, ever since the age of about 15, i have always been stuck in my head! I...

First off, I need to address this: Just by abstaining PMO for 5 days and taking cold showers in the morning has skyrocketed my confidence like I've never experienced before. I can make eye contact and approach people a lot better and my anxiety is non existent when i'm around people. Im glad I...

Hello everybody, I started nofap 2 months ago so I know what a reboot is but since I didnt rly dig deep into the forum this question may have been asked already. Anyway u could help me Alot by answering my question. I have problems with social anxiety thatswhy I do NoFap and ofc other smaller...

Due to the social anxiety that ive been enduring for the last couple of years, I have figured out that watching porn might be the cause of my problems with social anxiety. Symptoms of social anxiety started when i first laid my eyes on porn around 12 years ago. Since the symptoms have been...

In this thread I am gonna gather everything a know about social anxiety (disorder). This will serve as compilation of tips and way how to cure that anxiety. (immediate help and long term solution also). IMMEDIATE TIP/ TECHNIQUES When you are in social setting and you feel overwhelmed. Start...

Are there other things I can do to overcome Social Anxiety besides of NoFap and Meditation?

I had tried the No Nut November challenge and failed on the 15th, and now I want to start my NoFap PM0 90 DAY challenge starting tomorrow. I want to start my journey right and I believe I'll need all the support I can get. If you have any tips please feel free to reply to this thread. I'm...

I want to change but over the years from all the isolation and friendlessness. I became a weirdo. I can't hold proper conversations. I feel like people are judging me. I'm currently on Day 0 I wanna start my streak. Sometimes I feel like it doesn't matter anyways since I'm never gonna change...

this thread is to discuss how social anxiety plays a role in your PMO addiction and causes relapse. I found for me that PMO might be causing social anxiety and also social anxiety causes me to relapse. Please write your experience with this connection and ways that you deal with the social...

I believe it ( PORN + MB) has ruined my life...I have no friends...NO Job.. Its been 2 years I am graduated from my university (also faced great great difficulty in completing my studies)..and unable to secure job. Got scare because of the interviews \ insults... unable to focus on anything...

I am 24, a graduate school student in Architecture. I am writing my thesis now, so I spend lots of time by myself at writing. Other form the thesis, I hit the gym every morning at 6 to 8, I have Japanese classes 2 times a week. I have not having any sort of social life for almost 2 years, I...

Lets first start and interduce my self I'm 21 years old male and I'm having an addiction of fapping and sometimes watching porn. What did i do to battle my addiction? I first removed all my social accounts Facebook, Instagram, and twitter I also added an anti-porn plugin on my google chrome to...

Hi, first of all im 16, i have been masturbate since i was 13, i often do it 2 time a week. the reason i want to try reboot because sometime i feel depress and im having social anxiety and lack of motivation in school and hard to concentrate Also, does nofap make penis longer, because if it does...

I am a generally shy, anti-social person when around other people, but I've been trying to break out of that. Been going to a lot of Meetup groups, going out more in public, etc. Trying to work up a way to approach women as well. The more I go out, the more I take stock of what I did well, and...

Hello friends. 31 years old male this side. As the title of this thread already tells, I had been fapping for more than 16 years and PMOing for about 10 years. I came to know about the harms of these activities in my early twenties only, but even then I couldn't resist getting involved in them...

I'm writing this to vent to someone. I've never had a girlfriend and Im 17. I've never kissed a girl, nothing. I've been told SO many times that I am super attractive etc. People are always surprised to find out I'm not some stud with the ladies. Yet I have never had anything close to a...

Hey guys, so for years I have tried to stop PMO'ing. I am trying to stop because of how much it has made my life(and me) suffer. I was always a little shy, but now I have this bad social anxiety. It has gotten to the point where I can barely talk to anyone because of how nervous I am. Then, I...

Does anyone else experience withdrawals especially during hard mode streaks?... I get intense depression, insomina, anxiety, social anxiety, emptiness, no motivation, feeling like a brain dead zombie. It sucks as hell, which is the reason why I have relapsed in the past. I still haven't made...

before my addiction started i was normal and mentally healthy with no problem at all, and the top student in class , and i was extremely social , i was awkward from time to time but in normal range , however when i was in my last years of school i have done a mistake that i regret now and been...

Hi, my anxiety didn't hit me so hard than today. A old friend come to visit me today while her sister is getting into dentist. I've come to greet him with my father and get into the kitchen for chit-chat. It's at that moment that i become weird. I have bad time to keeping eye contact with him...

I'm a 28 year old male and I've had extreme social anxiety ever since I was 14. Oddly enough that's the age when I started watching pornography. Anyway, I live with my parents and I have no job. The last job I had was a year ago because I gave into my fears and never applied to another one...

Hey there, I am Dan (20) and I know for sure this is the way to go to become my best self. I have done multiple streaks since 2016 and I noticed how my confidence got much better and my mind was free, the thing is I never had the ability of going all the way with women I liked. So after so many...

I am a 28 year old male. I started watching pornography when I was 14 and have been addicted to it ever since. I was always shy growing up but always had friends and a healthy social life until I started watching porn. My shyness evolved into extreme social anxiety and I started avoiding every...

I joined this forum to share this very experience. I was on reddit earlier and I am on Day 56 and the journey here has been full of ups and downs. The downs include frequenting incel forums and capping 13 times a day(yes that is indeed possible). The ups include getting a girlfriend when pre...

Hey guys, so I'm going to skip straight to the point. I'm 21 years old, about to be 22 in 2 weeks, and my social life fucking sucks. I started watching porn at like age 13 and I have been addicted since. Up until like age 19, I had not been aware of nofap and the damages that come from PMO...

I want to improve my social skills and get more comfortable in any social situation. I think a good way to do is, is by talking to strangers. This way I will go out of my comfort zone and I have an opportunity to practice small talk. Therefore, I decided to create this challenge of talking to 3...

I am a porn addict, like many others who are reading this thread. Actually, I stopped watching it for 2 years, from when I was 15 until 17, and now I relapsed for almost a year. Last year, I have been watching it once or twice a week, I felt I wasted a lot of time...but the impulse is difficult...

Hey everyone, why is there no german nofap forum. I started watching and downloading porn since I got my first own pc with 14. The Internet connection is too slow for smooth streaming, thats why I started downloading. My one Terrabyte porn harddrive is now full and my other backup drive broke...