Hello ! I've been watching porn since i was 13(masturbating 2-5 times\day), and i stopped at age 20.In my first year i used to abstain 2-3 months before i relapsed.After my first year, the urges were literally at the same intensity as they were when i decidet to quit.It was a nightmare.I was confronting also with video games, drugs and alcohol problems.But i've made it, today is my first straight year without fapping.I've had sex 2-3 times and i considered it as failure becouse i was willing(and still am) to go monk mode.The urge is decresed significantly.Prayer and fasting(especialy water fasting) helped me a lot.I am now a changed man and i enjoy little things in life again.don't give up guys, you will make it, you need to be patient.Try thinking about death, look at funerals on youtube and go to the cemetery.It may sound crazy, but keeping in mind the fact that you will die, and you don't know exactly when, will abolish the urge in you. I wish you all good luck. God bless you, and God bless Romania, not America.(joke xd)
I have thought about physical disciplines like fasting for meditative reasons. Do you have any thoughts of other things I can try? I can't water fast or food fast, as this might have serious health consequences for me (I am an insulin dependent diabetic).
Spiritual practices, especially prayer, played a key part for me.Try keeping your mind busy all the time and wake up before 4 in the morning.Also, do not sleep more then 6-7 hours/night unless you are very tired.In my spiritual path, reading the teachings of Sophrony Sakharov and Joseph the Hesychast was very inspiring, and the time itself i was reading, it was a refuge, it was like the urge was taken away.
