I'm 16 and I'm wondering if I should continue to do Nofap, or just do not using porn. My longest streak has been 178 days without fapping, but I noticed after the first couple of days, I was miserable. Since I'm a teen, would it be wise to cut out masturbation, or should I just limit it? I'm horny 24/7, and I don't feel like suppressing sexual feelings at my age is healthy. When I get horny, it's more of a feeling of, "I need to ejaculate" rather yhan a feeling of "I want to get somemomentary pleasure." When I don't fap for a couple of days, I'm extremely anxious and depressed, and that's how it was the whole time on my 178 streak. Should I just fap in moderation? Thanks
You should deal with the anxiety and actually get help to fix it rather than suppress it with PMO and regret it when you're 20 and still full of mental problems.
Plus PMO makes those things worse and for some could even be the cause of their mental illnesses. Judging by the fact that you get anxiety when you don't fap, that's a pretty clear indicator that its the problem.
Most of my time as an addict has also been to M more than P. It only became both over time. M is pushed as normal and healthy by a lot of people on this site as if there's absolutely nothing even slightly wrong with it. But when shit like this happens where guys like us have crippling mental issues when we stop, guess what? Its a problem.
Moderation isn't an option for us in my opinion. For 3 years I was doing it everyday and for a year and a half of that it was even multiple times a day. Then the 4th year was every other day. Then in the 5th year I was able to get it to once every 2-3 weeks. But its always a problem, even when I got it down to every 2-3 weeks.
So basically I'd painfully struggle my way through like 3 weeks only to then give in anyway and end up having to deal with that struggle again.
Imo, you either stop and get this shit out of your life or just continue but in slight moderation. Only moderate so its not multiple times a day. But if you have an urge then just let it happen, even if its every day. There's no point in struggling through urges unless you're gonna get something out of it and the only way to get something out of it is to commit fully.
Doesn't mean if you fuck up a few times that you should give up or freak out but its about your intent. If you want to get this out of your life then commit to that and try your hardest. Yes, you will still fuck up but the intention is to eventually end it. If you want to keep it in your life then just do that. Don't go through the difficult shit, just give your mind what it wants.
It makes no sense to keep it at once every 2 weeks if its a struggle to do it because you won't get anything from that. You'll just be in that position for your whole life that way.
Do what you want but don't waste your time struggling if you won't get anything from it. Either struggle through the pain and eventually have your mind repair or just continue on with slight moderation that doesn't make your life hard. So don't keep it at once a week if its a struggle to do so.
Either way, good luck!