Relapse Prevention selfhelp

Discussion in 'Rebooting - Porn Addiction Recovery' started by Yin&Yang-Yūki, Jan 19, 2024.

Does relapse solve temporary problems?

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  1. Yin&Yang-Yūki

    Yin&Yang-Yūki Fapstronaut

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    Before you relapse you probably find yourself on your bed or sitting down somewhere letting various fantasies/urges invade your mind, THIS is step 1 to relapsing. You will THEN feel dopamine rushes in your head from the flashbacks and mental movies in your mind, the warm dopamine is a VERY dirty trick. Under the dopamine "spell" you instantly forget about all the benefits from NoFap, they are on the other side of the dopamine wall you have LET build. The trick is to NOT engage with these fantasies and mental movies so that you are not BLINDED by the chemical rushes of your brain, which will lead to more seeking (images, P videos, provocative material) of these waves. So when you detect a fantasy flashing in your brain TAKE a deep breath, get UP from where you are and walk around, run, do push-ups, eat, play a game, do anything to avoid getting HOOKED on the fantasy that will make you destroy your progressive streak. Peace out guys.
     
  2. nomo

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    Excellent advice, physical activity can cure all sorts of issues. For PMO, I find push-ups to be the most effective and immediate. The effort needed to do push-ups eliminates urges. For mood changes, I find walking outside and if possible walking in nature is the best to enhance your mood while relaxing your brain.
     
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  3. Yin&Yang-Yūki

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    The most dangerous time for an addict is the first moment when things are going so well that you believe you've left the addiction behind forever." -Adam Alter, author of Irresistible

    Us NoFappers need to constantly remember that watching porn again just "one time" will lead to more porn down the line. Let's face it - the addiction still remains, even though we have not watched porn for X amount of days. Although it may feel like we will no longer be affected by porn, and watching just one video will be harmless, the truth is that watching just one porn video will make our brains crave it even more again
     
  4. nomo

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    Also, I didn't mean to imply that physical activity can cure PMO, it can eliminate an urge. To cure PMO, one needs to make many changes in their lives. We must find other activities that distract us from wanting to look at porn. Unless you spend 6-8 hours in the gym every day, you will need more than just physical activity to beat this addiction.
     
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  5. Yin&Yang-Yūki

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    Knowing the reason why we started .
     
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  6. Homo sapien.

    Homo sapien. Fapstronaut

    Yes that's true....
    Especially for men, if they are not married and they have found themselves going frank with watching at porn they must get out of the house and do anything out there.
    That's true but one must have courage to feel all that in his mind as well.
    Letting ur self busy out there can grant you with time to take a breath what after that...People out there are like people we have have seen in GTA game they live and die, only a few of them tell you what to think actually when it is about porn...you must practice it at home and if needed even with mobile phone in your hand.
    Noticing people's behaviour helps to change but that is brought by consciously thinking about that interpretation.
     
  7. Yin&Yang-Yūki

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    Hi. Doing temporary things and waiting out before getting married is a weak drive why not to make your first 1 million, or getting from 50kg to 80kg of muscle. The moral of getting married is not what we should seek refuge in. Its a temporary solution to something that should be fixed within us. You can not quit pmo with this mindset. Pmo is the hardest thing to do. I never had sexual evil lust only when i engage in pmo. Did you ever got the need to smoke or drink alcohol? No. When you do engage in that you will get the feeling of needs the same for pmo because we have the same neurochemicals ;)
     
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  8. Homo sapien.

    Homo sapien. Fapstronaut

    Well said,
    Tell me the idea or plan you consider for having our 1 Million.
    How do we start? Especially as a graduate student.
     
  9. Yin&Yang-Yūki

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    Thinking outside the box. The mainstream media especially the foreigners want to make us a slave. If you know why P is free, then you should seek how to make your first 1 million. A women does not sastisfy men sexually. There is always need, but the difference is that the hardworkers are mostly men married for love not sex. Love is love and s3x is s3x
     
  10. Homo sapien.

    Homo sapien. Fapstronaut

    @Yin&Yang brother! Please try to understand, I'm here to make thinks easy...I couldn't understand that point. I don't even know when my next semester is about to start and u want me to think out of the box...
    We're you talking about ads that makes the free content earn?
     
  11. Yin&Yang-Yūki

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    Focus on school, but i know you got huge amount of free time due nofap ;)
     
  12. Homo sapien.

    Homo sapien. Fapstronaut

    @Yin&Yang
    In order to escape relapse I enrolled my self into a course at night time from 7 to 10 PM
    My college is 9 to 1 Am and then parents got against my decision of doing religious studies classes at night and they instead sent me to a job, from 2 pm to 6: 30 p.m...they thought I would leave "Night time classes but only I know why I take night classes at night and now my university exams are over...And I would do preparations for Night time course I'm enrolled in....I got absent from there alot...dont know they would allow me to take exam but Even after all that I used to relapse and this is first time in my life that Im consciously I.e. with my will power doing NoFap....and my brain feels like we feel a night before exam multiplied by 10...I don't know what to name it?
    I keep on writing on NoFap to get a response that guide me thoroughly but I'm realising that it is something I need to fight more...at this spot I think...my life would not be that long...I think ill die young.. have such gut feelings though Allah knows the best...
    The only thing that I do and feel mentally stable is Tilawat...just do pray...I need nothing else...
    Shakespeare said,
    Do not have expectations, they always hurt.
     
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