Hi everyone! I'm married and have three children. For the past 2 years, I have seen a psychologist and psychiatrist for help with major depression, social anxiety disorder, and ADHD. After a recent job loss, I grew concerned as more and more of my time was dedicated to PMO'ing than to doing things that are congruent with my values. As I work to love and accept myself and live a life that is congruent with my values, I have discovered that I need to learn to live a porn free life. This weekend, I learned about YBOP and NoFap and am excited to get to work. I view this as a wonderful opportunity to see what benefits might be waiting for me if I can live life without porn. I look forward to being a part of this community. I respect all of you and what you are trying to do for yourselves and for those you care about.
Hello William I know the feeling of depression, but I never sought help apart from this website. Nofap and nopmo can work miracles. I wish you luck on your journey.
Welcome to NoFap @William Penn, I really feel ya on the depression, P addiction is a way to hide the emotions and not tackle them, kind off distorts the reality that we feel. Once you start to tackle your addiction the depression and social anxiety will become less or at least give you more of an ability to deal with it or clear the fog to able to see the right method to tackle such issues. P just makes us unwilling to even want to tackle those issues at all. Once you engage more with your life and less with P you will see the benefits that most of us mention on here. You've already started the journey, now actively shape your life for the better.
Hi @William Penn , welcome to NoFap I recommend you to create your own "Emergency Toolbox" with readings that can be handy to read when you start feeling urges to screw up. I can share this post with you with my own Emergency Toolbox, it helped me a lot during the first few months, i had them in my cell and read them every time I started falling down: https://www.nofap.com/forum/index.p...y-first-320-days-of-reboot.62938/#post-473978 I wrote some tips in this post that perhaps will help you too: http://NoFap.com/forum/index.php?threads/tips-that-helped-me-to-start-my-reboot.46617/#post-330318 You can watch some interesting videos which are also very helpful in this post: http://nofap.com/forum/index.php?th...t-help-me-a-lot-during-my-reboot.39774/page-2 I also suggest you to read "Breaking the Cycle" by George Collins, it is a must-read if you are serious about getting rid of this addiction. Last but not least, I would strongly recommend you to take the NoFap Academy course if you can afford it. The course is great but the best value are the weekly video calls with @alexander (the creator of NoFap and NoFap Academy) and Mark Queppet, where you can chat with them in real life and listen to other guys's stories and problems too. I hope that all this helps you to fight this shitty addiction. Fercho
