social anxiety

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...

Hello everyone! In the last two jobs I have had it's like everyone eventually figures it out and I don't really know how. I guess it is because I never talk about anything related to sex and if someone I am talking to brings up that topic I try to end the conversation. I need to become more...

Hey guys, I have been on NoFap for about a year now, streaks and relapses. However I am new to the NoFap forum. I am currently on my longest streak of 18 days no PMO. I haven't noticed any considerable benefits as of yet but I am taking it seriously now. One thing I have noticed is the obvious...

i m sufferig from ocd and social anxity.i hardly go outside.will nofab help me.i thing my ocd,social anxiety started becace sex addiction i fond that high dopamine can give you ocd.

I have no friends Also no girlfriend, no job, not really a career that I know I will conclude (I am currently doing 2 careers and I want to drop off both) I am 21 y/o male from Argentina, just yesterday was my birthday and the most depressing birthday to this day. See, I don't want to be...

New here. Struggling with this addiction for a very long time now.My problem is mentioned in the title. SAD has destroyed almost my life.Lost my friends (or better to say i avoid them) .The only people i can normally communicate are family members and to friends with some insecurities. The...

after 7 days . i slip up today .. I think bringing phone in the bathroom is a bad idea . please can someone give me some piece of advice ?

Well, I have social anxiety, however I do have some good friends. But when it comes to women I am attracted to I fail hard. I'd love a lady friend to call friend. But I am 100% the nice guy. And because I happen to be really good at 1 on 1 serious talks about life and philosophy ext ext.. I am...

Hey, guys, so I was wondering what you guys think about looks and how this relates to confidence. Also, how low confidence can make a person have social anxiety (which i have to some degree). What can I do if I’m considered an average to below average looking dude? I feel that these things are...

Hi to all, here is my story, I found out two months ago that i may be having problems with porn addiction and i have been trying to quit. I had three streaks during that time, my first streak was 7 days, second streak 26 days and the last streak was 8 days. During those times i only relapsed...

I'm 20 years old, never had a girlfriend out of lack of confidence to try (can't get rejected if you never try mentality) and started NoFap out of curiosity about a month ago (worth noting that before starting it was about once every 3 to 4 days). Before starting, I wasn't particularly anxious...

My story began when I was about 8 after discovering nudity on a movie I wasent suppose to be watching. I would watch videos online (any one remember I Film? That was my go to site until it was shut down) though I didnt masturbate until I was 20. Social Anxiety started in my teens, though I didnt...

Hi, everyone (this is a bit long, sorry for that) so... i'm 26yrs old, i've been suffering from social anxiety since i was around 12-14 yrs old (back then it was a lot less anxiety then now though), but i always felt like i didn't really fit in at school or society, i switched schools, i got...

I'm a 20 year old male that has had an addiction to masturbation for the last 9 years. I really hate it and I believe it has had a big effect on my life. I never want to do it, I just get an urge and am drawn to doing it, I can't stop myself and every time I regret it. I literally just find my...

I've been absent from the forums for more than one year, I think. I got cocky, I lasted 7 months without PMO, after that I was PMOing every two weeks, then every week, then twice a week.... you get then idea. Never more than twice tho, but I'm experiencing some PMO addiction symptoms, mostly...

If you're reading this you probably have been in this situation: you go to the club or a party where you don't know many people and there you are in a corner with a drink on your hand and the other one in your pocket looking at all the hot women afraid of going there and talking to them. If you...

I spend a lot of time playing video games in the computer since i was 12 years, before that i was super social n shit, the thing begin when i move on from my city (that i had a lot of friends), so I felt very alone and starts to spend all my day in my room in the computer, like a escapism from...

It was probably the 55th time I reinstalled the dating App Tinder. I was tired of using these type of apps. My friend suggested to me to install it, so that I could overcome my fear of social anxiety by talking to girls. There were still a few matches from a while ago. So I started to talk to...

I have been resisting masturbation for 8 days now, and so far, it’s been extremely difficult to say the least. It’s been forcing me to develop a mentality that bans and punishes any sexual thought I let enter. Even in meditation, the thoughts—and the feeling— pop up randomly again and again and...

Hey guys, So I’m new to the NoFap Community and I hope I can be a part of helping people out as well as getting the help that I need. I wanted to share a few of my feelings, particularly the ones I believe have prompted me to give in to masturbation and porn the most. First off, I’ll tell a...

Hey guys, I've found this advise very useful for approaching anxiety. I spent almost all of the past year watching 2 girls (one that works at my gym and one that works at my college's library) that I really really really wanted to talk to. This year, I've talked to both of them, I introduced...

Hi guys, I'm on day 25 and have had my ups and downs. I've improved myself but there's still one thing that I've been struggling with the most, which is also the reason I joined NoFap. That is, social anxiety. I've read a lot of forums, quora questions, and seen a lot of RSD (Real Social...

Have you guys ever told a girl you just met what you want right away? I mean not been a creeper, but after introducing telling her you think she's cute or charming and then asking her out? I want to try that with a pretty girl but I want to know if it has ever worked for any of you

Hey Everyone! So I guess I'm not like totally new to the Dating thing.... I ran nightclubs for a few years so it gave me kind of an edge with massive amounts of girls that would go; plus I forced myself to do red pill pickup for about a year; gave me more confidence but I feel like I've lost it...

Hello everyone! New here (well not really, had an account made back in June of last year, shows how much this has been on my mind). Anyway been sort of making the journey alone and it's not working so I figure this is probably going to help a lot. Don't think it's just specifically porn and...

Im in a position where I really REALLY need to be working. My anxiety used to be so bad that I had panic attacks at work, I fee years ago I worked at a dunkin donuts and the costumer service ruined me, I was fired after just the first month. I was heavy on PMO back then so it was really no...

Hello fapstronauts, hope my story inspires those of you who have a difficult time rebooting. Would've post it on success stories but I would need 30 days and I'm on 21. Ok, so there's this girl.. she works at the gym in the reception with another girl and has always been nice to me when I pay...

I'm very proud of myself, I'm on 20 days. I have seen many improvements in my life but the biggest of my problems is social anxiety, which I have not been able to cure. I'm afraid of approaching pretty girls, last Friday I was at a party and saw a group of girls that I couldn't approach because...

Hi I am a 24y old guy from India. So I came across no PMO/ nofap somewhat around april 2017 and it was much needed during that time and was really motivated and pumped up to do it, and in my very first attempt I was able to do the 90 days challenge. I was really happy and motivated untill one...

Hi, first time i started NoFap was December 2016 unfortunately it only lasted 10 days after my friend told me i was crazy, came home and relapsed. Next time I tried again in August 2017 and did it for month and a half, honestly I never had that kind of confidence. Experienced new kind of WILL...

Hey guys i have this problem of doubting myself and feeling that i'm less than people Especially when it comes to heigh when i'm walking i hate seeing someone taller than me and i feel insecure and inconfident , how to solve this ?

I have NEVER went more than 7 days without PMO so I don't know if this is even fucking possible. After researching all the wonderful benefits of refraining from PMO, I decided to give this thing a go. I'm so scared that I will fail miserably. One thing's for sure is that I cannot do this alone...

It all started in 6th grade. 2010. 11 years old. I first masturbated until I came. It felt good but the build up to orgasm was scary and unexpected. I never experienced anything like that before. I would go on to do it more and more, eventually getting over my fear of the intense build up...

Hi there!, so this is probably going to be the most personal story I've ever told anyone, let alone strangers on the internet. My Name's Jan and I'm a 23 year old student currently living in Berlin. The last year I slowly started developing bad social anxiety. I can't exactly put a date on...

I have pretty bad social anxiety, as the title may suggest. Mostly, that's down to my high functioning autism, which I'm fine with. However, I feel that it's worse than it should be. My addiction to PMO definitely makes it worse. I've never had any real friends, or even a girlfriend as a result...

So whenever I have an upcoming social event I abstain from PMO to increase my confidence, testosterone & reduce social anxiety. It always works but now I have a very intense urge and can't relapse because I have that event to go to tomorrow and I'm going to need all of my semen retention...

Hello guys! I've been doing NoFap for 36 days now and it's going great! I've broken my record which was 35 days! I felt really bad when i relapsed after those 35 days...but, i started over again and now i'm on 36 days! My confidence is going up! i am not fully confident in myself yet but, i am...

I was always shy around girls in school, but over time I developed a small confidence and became more social, however I still wasn't where I wanted to be. I became more extroverted and better with girls. Even though I was doing much better and socialising, I still had that shyness within...

My name is John and I have always been addicted to masturbating, I think I started at age 10 and now I'm 18 so I wasted 2920 hours of my life faping. The longest time I reached without masturbating is 10 days, and when i relapsed I felt dizzy and so happy, then I felt like a total piece of shit...

Hello, I've been masturbating many times a week since I was 9. I discovered porn at 13 and I started PMO it was nearly eveyday, sometimes even many times a day... (Up to 12) It was just so normal whenever I couldn't do somthing whever I felt bad or stressed even homework or some shitty games it...

I've been doing the nofap since february and let's just say i have not succeeded yet im 15 and i understand that i have my whole life ahead and i have time to master quitting my addiction but if i may ask to the people who have succeeded in nofap and have actually gotten past the 3 week mark how...

What's up guys! I'm Quoya and I'm a 21 year old woman hoping to gain control over PMO. I'm a senior in college and I've been struggling in many aspects in college over the past two years. I think that PMO is at the root of my problems so I'm facing this problem head on. I've attempted NoFap in...

Hello everybody. I hope you all doing well. I am a 22 year-old male. I don't have a girlfriend. I am afraid. I am suffering from OCD, which greatly influences my daily life. I feel a lot of stress every day and almost every hour. I also have some social anxiety. It's hard for me to look at...

HI! I am having 58 days today and soon reach 60 days. I will just post benefits that I already got: - Girls and getting noticed by people. I just started seeing them and I started realising they are humans as well. I started looking at them. I noticed, maybe like 2 girls which randomly looked at...

I’VE made the tough decision to either quit – or take a break from - social media. Here's why... I just feel that I waste too much time on it, and that it's quite simply sucking the life and soul out of me. For a while, I’ve stopped using Instagram and Snapchat for these reasons alone. It's...

I often find myself becoming anxious when talking to strangers, difficult persons, classmates,. I also become reluctant to speak due to some nervousness ANy suggestion ..

And how this sucks to you? i have this curse but i feel like an very social person, i really enjoy and also feel the need to talk and talk and get attention, but it's strange how from nowhere i start get anxious in social circles and end up quiet...

I was thinking about if the induced social anxiety is limited to porn, or too much use of computer and internet have a fault in that too, can porn addiction be just one more level of internet addiction, i remember when i was younger and don't use the computer i was extrovert and energic, later...

Hi all, I am a 23 year old men, living in The Netherlands. My english is not the best, but i will post anyway.I found NoFap in February 2016 and tried to recover from my addictions. Today i am 131 days free of PMO and my other sex addictions. I am doing Hardmode. I've been a pornography user...

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For those who fight against social anxiety, how long in your streak you take to get more confortable in social situations?

(English it's my second language. In advance, sorry for the possible mistakes) Mine, it's not a dramatic story. I'm a male, 25 years old. For years I've been using porn, once daily at least for 10-11 years, 3-4 times if I was dealing with stress. I was thinking of it as a healthy innocuous way...

I have been addicted to pornography on and off since I was a mere 9 years old. I think that being introduced to porn at such a young and vulnerable age really scarred my brain permanently . Starting off with softcore porn did not last long as my brain would always want to shift to something new...

I know i asked this 1 million of times, but that is the last one to know the opinion of you guys

Hello. I have been feeling weird for almost 20 years now. At first it was using drugs that I guess messed my chemistry a bit, in the beginning weed suited me quite well but after a couple years I started getting way too mental, disconnected from my feelings, and afraid. I stopped using drugs...

Before my 14 years old, when i not masturbate to porn i was an extrovert kid, now i am not shy i can talk to people, but i can't stand with groups of friends and this make me depressed, i just imagine how cool would be i laughing with a group of friends hang out and all this... i became...

Hey guys! This is my first time doing anything like this, and even while writing this I don't feel very sure that I'll be able to make any progress with this addiction. I've been watching and masturbating to porn for almost a decade now, starting from before puberty. Reading some of the forum...

What's up guys, Just a quick story for all who may need inspiration or proof of changes! Went to a party last night, walked in with a goofy friendly look on my face and instantly started hugging girls, bro handshakes with guys, starting conversations, laughing, having a great time. After about...

Looks like today all my life is based on internet, i 'socialize on internet' i fall in love on internet and i can just talk about my problems on internet, outside i can't make friends properly anymore i lost interest on people they seems so fucking boring now and i became too shy and introvert...

Hi guys – I stumbled upon NoFap about a year ago and have been trying to beat my addiction ever since. I finally got the courage to sign up and share my story and find others who are on the same journey. My longest no PMO streak thus far has been 20 days, and my goal is the full 90 days. My...

Well i kinda boring of my life today, i know i am still very young but, a lot of my old good friends i just lost my friendship because i move to other city, and i am very shy and introvert now, and i don't feel connected with anyone here because of lack with common interests, do nofap gonna help...

Hello Fapstronauts. Okay so I'll be completely honest here. I've had a foot fetish since I was 13-14. Since then it has been the centre of my sexual attractions and urges. I've always been scared to admit my foot fetish and I've reached a point where I actually feel ashamed and disgusted about...

As thread name, it's all completely true. I failed my education, i can't get a job bc i have no drivers licence or experience. I am to anxious to meet up with a girl, and frankly shouldn't since i have nothing going on in my life that would bring anything to the relationship. I lost all of my...

I dont know if its NoFap related but ive fallen in love with a girl. Im nearing the end of my senior year in high school and ive known her since 7th grade. Im convinced that she's the most amazing girl in the world and when i look in her eyes the feeling i get cant be described by words. Shes...

Tonight i joined NoFap. I had heard about it in the past, now im going to start this journey. Last september 1-nov 16 i abstained from porn. I started to get a lot more confident and i guess manly feeling haha. But i relapsed and my anxiety in school and around girls came back. I want to be able...

How can i remove my insecurities ? Specially in physical aspect. And also im suffering from acne .. I also have social anxiety. I cant stand being around with many people . I just cant . Im also very self concious . :( pls help

How can i remove my insecurities ? Specially in physical aspect. And also im suffering from acne .. I also have social anxiety. I cant stand being around with many people . I just cant . Im also very self concious . :( pls help

Hello everyone I'm Ron and I'm 16 from England. I have decided to join the community as I believe that I'm suffering from pied. I started masturbating when I was about 13 and have always masturbated to porn, ranging from one to twice a day. I have never had any sexual interactions with a girl...

Hi Guys, Although im a newbie here ( and a newbie to any sort of forum/thread for that matter ), I have been (unsuccessfully) trying to Reboot/stop porn for a good 3 years ( have read up a lot of YBOP site ) ,Am 37 yrs old first starting w porn at 9 yrs old, yep , 28 yrs of fapping to porn...

First of all my English is far from excellent but i will do my best. I started with PMO probably when I was around 11 and I was never thinking about it like it was "that" bad. Now the fact that I have growing porn addiction is not the real reason why I decided to join this site.The much bigger...

Day 3 on no-pmo . . I find it hard to not fantasized about when I see girls , my brains automatically fantasized about them and breathing becomes heavy . I also find it hard to establish eye contact to anyone specially women when she's wearing something that can make you get aroused and start...

It's been 11 years of this unwanted and unworthy indulgence,and the only reason is "PORN".i have researched upon all consequences of excessive practicing but even then I failed thousands of times.Though I have felt completely broken from inside a couple of times and I have got many psychological...