How to not feel like shit when you relapse

Definitely. Cold bath/shower is essential to kick starting a reboot.

As with what you said there. Identify what caused you to have triggers leading to relapses for future references. Don't dwell on what's happened, because what's done is done. That relapse is in the past, and treat it as a cautionary tale. Pick yourself up, and build on the strengths and success you've gained so far from doing NoFap.

 

Thanks @PasterofMuppets for this. I've relapsed in the last hour
I'm going to put your post in NF Companion notes.

 

That shitty feeling is what motivates you not to relapse.

Now how about starting a thread 'How not to relapse because of that shitty feeling you get'?

Do NOT make a lifestyle out of Nofap.

 

I have only been doing this a couple of weeks & relapsed once but found the most helpful thing was to admit it to someone. I told my wife & accountability partner.

Makes you feel soo silly when telling them that it wakes you straight up & gives you something to reflect on.

 

It's the anticipation of that shitty feeling that causes you to think twice before deciding to relapse.

 

What do you mean? Are you saying we should stop visiting this site? Or we should be looking at porn or masturbating now and again?

 

It is important not to let one bad decision turn into a week's worth of bad decisions. Do what works to keep you away from porn and start ataying away immediately. Messing up once is poor justification for messing uo twice.

 

Nofap becomes the central part of your life... and like eternal recurrence you keep going around in circles with it. I suspect some people, in a kind of masochistic way, are caught in this cycle of using pornography and then beating themselves up for it... deriving an extra perverse pleasure on top of their perverse pleasure for P.