To the longtime addicts: when you look back, what do you think?

i think your though process is right. i feel the same that smartphones have added to us a craving for porn. now just need to find way to control the screen time and eventually get control over thinking about porn.

 

I have broke my phones, laptops, cut chargers into pieces, gave my Wifi password to the wife to control but there are ways to get back to porn. So clearly all the damage for nothing. I figured this journey of abstaining needs discipline and some willpower. We need to go in this head first (with strategies) in place to be successful. Small progress along the way until we get over this problem.

 

My porn problems start in the mind....there lies the battle

 

One of my problems is like my "spankbank". I remember some kinda porn scene, image, or story or whatever and just everything gets overloaded. I'm not trying to do a pmo cause that affected my mental health. But I get overworked and I try to just take care of it. I have to fight to get off without porn though so it's hard. I get on here and I just hear so many stories about how this ruined so many peoples lives. I relasped pretty bad recently and I got this rubbed raw feeling in my mind and this trauma feeling. I don't think this will ever in it's to engrained. Some people say it takes years though so I guess I'll just keep struggling through it for a couple more years or so.