I've been recovering from porn addiction since march now, with a few resets a long the way. I haven't watched actual porn or masturbated during this time luckily, but it is increasingly getting more and more difficult not to. Today I touched myself for like 5 seconds and have had sexual thoughts pop up many times during the day - which I try to forget as soon as they come up. Do you have any tips to get through this? I try to do other stuff when I'm close to relapsing, but I worry that if I don't have a better strategy I might just fall back into it...
For me personally it took me months to actually stop watching porn or masturbation because I would go in few streaks of a week a month or more than relapse cause of edging, stress and not able to resist myself and then again fail and this happened for a year A YEAR. So just have a commitment stop for good dont fail in the trap of triggers and avoid triggers, other than that have a strategy of if I fail now I'll have again start over again then again which will eventually turn into years so take everyday as a challenge and you'll succeed good luckss.
Yep it's hard I know it but now It just bothers me that i have relapsed to many freakin times how much more? I stopped for good not tomorrow but today. Try to slap yourself (i recommend)when you get the urges I do it,it actually works, not to be dramatic but it does tell me to get my shit together lol
