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Anger and Sexual Issues

Discussion in 'Compulsive Sexual Behavior' started by countitjoy5, Oct 16, 2018.

  1. countitjoy5

    countitjoy5 Fapstronaut

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    I'm recently having more success at breaking free from sexual addiction and I hope the site and community will help. I notice I have periods of intense anger and frustration that cause me to lapse into looking at women online - the anger is such that I seem to blackout and lose interest in abstaining. Any one else encounter this?
     
  2. In my case its not really anger, but i know what you mean.
    It's like im totally committed, but then emotions change and im not interested anymore in abstaining.. more interested in relapsing, and then finding an excuse to do it...
    We have to learn from these experience to be more vigilant next time. I have to be aware that when its easy everything is okay, so thats not the most important part to focus on on the recovery.
    So then the most important part for me to focus on, is when its hard.. and me/my brain is coming up with reasons and excuses to relapse.
    Also gotta remind myself why to desire and becoming obsessed with pmo in the first place (when i always experience afterwards it was not worth it, and i only experience feelings of lethargy, guilt, shame, defeat, stupidity etc.)
    So yeah.. relapsed yesterday after a streak of 11 days.
    I will focus more on the difficult moment, and experiment with techniques on the difficult/horny/excusing moments (breathing, cold shower, meditation, excercising etc).
     
  3. countitjoy5

    countitjoy5 Fapstronaut

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    I had been completely abstinent for 4 and half years until 2007, then I relapsed into habitual sexual sin - recently went about 90 days but during that time I was intermittently viewing material that was causing lust and it eventually sank me; that was before this site. After the 90 I went 28 and relapsed with same intermittent viewing - this time I'm determined to not view anything. Let's see how it goes.
     
  4. slapdad jones

    slapdad jones Fapstronaut

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    This is an interesting concept and I have thought about it for a long time. I have always wondered about the link between anger and sex. I have issues with each one so I try to draw parallels between triggers and response. The triggers are clearly not the same. If someone cuts me off in traffic I dont think about fucking, I think about knocking someone out. The response though is to breathe deeply and try to redirect.
    The anger is just that Im easily frustrated and can get pissed off quickly. I have never had it trans-mutate into a desire to watch porn or get laid. The sex part of it is that I have an addiction to pornography. In dealing with either one of these things, I have never seen the other subside in anyway and I have also never experienced what you have experienced countitjoy with a blackout because of anger.
    I guess if I were being honest, when I get laid Im pretty chill for a time.
    Though Ive been dealing with them in a mutually exclusive way, I suppose that its all one thing. We are overcome by some emotion or intense emotional state, and we need to see it clearly and use whatever tools we have at our disposal to diffuse the situation before we act in an unskilled way.
    I would be interested to hear what the community has to say.
     
  5. RedGryphon

    RedGryphon Fapstronaut

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    Well yes, anger, frustration, agitation is the result of going "cold turkey". It happens with everyone trying to abstain from an addiction.
     

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