Cam Site Addiction

It’s good that you caught it fairly early. It is a rabbit hole that will only draw you in deeper and won’t satisfy for anything more than a few moments. There are members here who have spent thousands and tens of thousands of dollars on cam sites. It’s a drug for your mind and it will hook you bad if you don’t walk away from it now. Good luck.

 

Download Cold Turkey. As long as you set it up right it's impossible to bypass.

 

In my opinion the blocking part cannot be very good. If you feel that the block is the only thing stopping you from watching porn you are doing a mental mistake. I used all kinds of blocking software and found ways to bypass it. It's like if you quit cigarettes: they are always in reach - like 5 minutes from where ever you are in a big city. So in the beginning it helps to not have any cigarettes in your house but you have to learn that there is no block and that it is only your discipline that blocks...

 

I got into Cams for about a week and tried to stop and it carried over into the next week. I spent about $500 easy. Fortunately I love money more than porn but I could easily see it getting out of control and I still want to get on there. It's crazy. I had to have my account blocked and I've already had to stop myself in the middle of creating a new one. It's a crazy time to be alive, but we have to rise above. Best of luck and be good!

 

I'm glad to see you realizing you need to stop while you are so young. I am nearly 40 and spent 25+ years PMO. Considering sitting down and writing down some goals for what you want your life to look like and how you want to live. Write down some financial goals for your self and put that time, money, and energy to work creating the life you really want to live.

 

This absolutely crippled me during Covid. I fear to think what it actually cost me in £££.

I think with the camming (in my case it was one to one) you're kind of telling yourself that it's not as bad as watching P when in reality it's actually worse because you're tricking yourself into believing that this is like a one on one sex type deal. When in reality, you're paying to watch someone.

One of the best ways for me to get to grips with it was getting into my head that this was like going to see a prostitute. No disrespect to the women who is earning a living, however, this is something that I personally would never do. Therefore, once you pull this into your head and focus on it more and more when you get those urges the easier it is to distance yourself from those sites.

I would certainly echo what others have mentioned above though. You can't just depend on blockers, they are like one pillar of support in your recovery. I too have made the mistake of just relying on blockers and as soon as you're on a PC without it, it's literally chocks away and you dive in so deep.

Feel free to hit me up with a PM anytime about it, I'm not perfect. Far from it, but we're in a similar boat and a similar age so we can only try right?