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Fresh Start with New Information

Discussion in 'Rebooting - Porn Addiction Recovery' started by RightWolf, Apr 19, 2022.

  1. RightWolf

    RightWolf Fapstronaut

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    I am starting over, day two here..but I read up (a lot) on Porn addiction and learned some valuable stuff about my brain and what is happening...why the urges are so powerful and hard to resist...the sensitization, the frontal lobe being compromised, the extreme weakness of willpower and the instant limbic bypass. The latest studies reveal that a brain chemical that causes amnesia is released by the brain during a relapse.
    It's not my fault, that I have this issue, its because my primitive (and very strong) brain functions and instinct to reproduce had been hijacked by an extremely powerful new drug (internet porn) but it is my responsibility to do something about it.
    I am taking this a lot more seriously, now that I get a sense of the hopelessness of my condition, in terms of trying to think my way out of it, or my lame and fruitless hope not to get strong urges. The urges are a kind of illusion and a temporary brain chemistry short circuit. They (the urges) will get stronger than ever sometime in the first two weeks. Then they will gradually fade overall with unexpectedly strong, intense cravings popping up here and there during the first 8 weeks....Trying to reformat ones brain is not easy, but it is possible. I will need to be focused and keep motivation high, very high, for the first 30 days especially, when much more susceptible to relapse. This stuff has destroyed my life, my binges are getting longer, 6-18 hrs, all night and then night turns into day, and I am still edging.
    I feel like I finally get it. I have finally hit a bottom. I am finally ready to make this recovery, this reboot, this abstinence, the most important focus in my life right now, so I can finally get my life back. Here we go.
    I wish all of my fellow fapstronauts well in this endeavor.
     

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