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The feeling of falling back into this addiction

Discussion in 'Compulsive Sexual Behavior' started by Liminal, Mar 24, 2021.

  1. Liminal

    Liminal Fapstronaut

    About a week ago I made a post on how P/M addiction effectively distorted my sexual preferences and made me develop an "exhibition" fetish at the age of 16. After I made that post I managed to go onto a 6 days no PMO streak, which, by my standards, was actually the longest in a long time. But as always my brain had to find excuses to stop this progress and go back to those habits, so I started doing some researches and found some people giving the advice to not attempt PMO if you are a beginner, but start with just no P. It was day 6 and obviously my brain took this as an excuse to break the streak. "You're not going to relapse to P, so it's fine" that's what I convinced myself of. Yesterday, when I broke my streak, I started with light soft-sexual content, today I literally got back to who I was before my 6 days streak. All the progress, gone. I relapsed to the same stuff I used to and did the same twisted things that would turn me on in order to feed that dopamine request that my brain had been missing for almost a week, which I did because of those excuses of which I talked about a moment ago. I don't even feel as I used to after I relapsed, regretful, I geniunely feel sad, alone. Without control or any strength of will. Those feelings I had during the last streak seem distant and unreachable. Like that was luck, I only had a taste of self control but I am eventually doomed to this shit.
     
  2. I recently just broke a 21 day streak and went on a 2 week binge. I know how you feel. Sadly the reality is it’s very easy to end up back at square one when you do relapse.

    But don’t let that get you down if you’re smart and self aware enough you can learn from your mistakes. I try to treat each relapse as a learning experience. No one is just gonna be able to quit PMO. It takes practice and a genuine desire to change.Which I know I have because I’m back on a 3 day streak now and don’t plan on breaking any time soon. I think you do too or else you wouldn’t be on here.

    all I’m trying to say is don’t get to down about it. It happens to the best of us. Quitting is a process a very long one.
     
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  3. k123

    k123 Fapstronaut

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    Truth is porn will always be there no matter how long a streak you manage to achieve. People on this forum have relapsed after 100 days without pmo. So I believe this is a life long journey and we are never supposed to let our guard down or else we will definitely relapse even if it is 1000 days from now.
     
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