I need to up my game.

Escapeandnevercomeback

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I'm reading success stories for motivation not to get caught in the heat of the moment. My addicted brain is trying to get me down the same routine that has led to relapses many times. I see it coming but it feels like the best idea, like it won't do anything wrong to me, that's exactly how it feels although I know it's not true.
 
I'm reading success stories for motivation not to get caught in the heat of the moment. My addicted brain is trying to get me down the same routine that has led to relapses many times. I see it coming but it feels like the best idea, like it won't do anything wrong to me, that's exactly how it feels although I know it's not true.
Man. I'm right there with you.
It's been really helpful to read other people's stories especially when I just wanna say 'screw it'. Then also reading about the hurt PMO has caused for the writer and their family, I don't want to go down that path.
Keep at it man. You are stronger than you realize!
 

Escapeandnevercomeback

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Man. I'm right there with you.
It's been really helpful to read other people's stories especially when I just wanna say 'screw it'. Then also reading about the hurt PMO has caused for the writer and their family, I don't want to go down that path.
Keep at it man. You are stronger than you realize!
Thanks, man!
 

Escapeandnevercomeback

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Day 10

I crave porn and alcohol. Giving up those two things made me feel irritated and a constant anxiety all day long. All I feel is anxiety and anger/irritation. I don't like how I feel. I see why people go back to their addictions. It sucks.
 

Escapeandnevercomeback

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The only thing that manages to calm down a little bit my desire to act out is reading success stories. Especially those "Before/After" type of stories. The "Before" stories are many times something I would write. It reminds me of where I'm coming from and what I could get if I decided to "do nothing" about the craving. When you feel like you can't wait anymore, it might help to read some posts and articles like that for motivation. Just tell yourself: "5 minutes until I finish reading this, if I'm to jerk off anyway" but you might not even want to do it anymore after reading.
 

guitar1968

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The only thing that manages to calm down a little bit my desire to act out is reading success stories. Especially those "Before/After" type of stories. The "Before" stories are many times something I would write. It reminds me of where I'm coming from and what I could get if I decided to "do nothing" about the craving. When you feel like you can't wait anymore, it might help to read some posts and articles like that for motivation. Just tell yourself: "5 minutes until I finish reading this, if I'm to jerk off anyway" but you might not even want to do it anymore after reading.
If you haven't read mine, take a look. I'm in the 40 and over group.

I have been addicted since I was very young. We're talking a solid 45 years of this nonsense. But when high speed internet came about, I was just starting to work from home and that made me dive into the depth of hell with porn. My wife worked away from home so I was there all day. Porn up for 8 hours, sometimes I would PMO to completion 4 or 5 times a day. As this was happening I was having more and more trouble keeping an erection. Soon I wasn't able to orgasm in my wife. I had to pull out and manually finish. Then I just started not being able to have sex at all. But, my porn was always standing by to help get me there. Until it no longer did. It would take me hours to finish. I had to find the weirdest and dirtiest thing to make me orgasm. I would try that same thing a day later and no go, had to keep searching. You get the picture.

So, this year on April 15 after finishing to a bizarre video that made me question my existence, I found Reboot Nation and haven't looked back. I'm just about at 6 months with no PMO and only masturbated without porn 5 times. I decided I really need to go hard mode so I'm now at 60 days of that. I am finally at a place where I absolutely don't feel like I need it. I can get a little triggered by things, but it is so easy to brush it off now. I credit this site, Your Brain on Porn and The Easy Peasy Method for helping me along the way. But I do feel that I had to get to the point where I was hating myself for this behavior. I was sitting here with my pants around my ankles wondering the hell I was doing. I had had enough.

Now, I don't want to make it sound like it has been easy. The first 45 days were great. I was craving but I was fighting. But then for the next 40 or 50 days I was questioning the whole process. I was ready to throw in the towel. Somehow I made it through that phase and around 100 days the cloud lifted, my brain felt clear and I haven't experienced that kind of craving since. 160 days today. I can't even believe it myself.

So, I know I still have a long way to go to be healed, but I'm seeing a light at the end of the tunnel. I found that the more I focused on other things, the easier it was. For me it's been exercise and music. And of course this site. Every time I got a craving, go to rebootnation.org instead of porn site. Read the success stories. Read the failures or let's say lapses. As long as we keep trying, keep coming back here, they are just lapses. If you walk away and give in to the addiction completely, then that is a failure.

I hope my story helps. I'm hoping for a happy ending, but if I'm in the middle of my recovery, it's a pretty good book so far.

Stay strong, stay focused, find something you love and throw yourself into it and come here often to get support and to get the nonsense out of your head. Good luck.
 

Escapeandnevercomeback

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If you haven't read mine, take a look. I'm in the 40 and over group.

I have been addicted since I was very young. We're talking a solid 45 years of this nonsense. But when high speed internet came about, I was just starting to work from home and that made me dive into the depth of hell with porn. My wife worked away from home so I was there all day. Porn up for 8 hours, sometimes I would PMO to completion 4 or 5 times a day. As this was happening I was having more and more trouble keeping an erection. Soon I wasn't able to orgasm in my wife. I had to pull out and manually finish. Then I just started not being able to have sex at all. But, my porn was always standing by to help get me there. Until it no longer did. It would take me hours to finish. I had to find the weirdest and dirtiest thing to make me orgasm. I would try that same thing a day later and no go, had to keep searching. You get the picture.

So, this year on April 15 after finishing to a bizarre video that made me question my existence, I found Reboot Nation and haven't looked back. I'm just about at 6 months with no PMO and only masturbated without porn 5 times. I decided I really need to go hard mode so I'm now at 60 days of that. I am finally at a place where I absolutely don't feel like I need it. I can get a little triggered by things, but it is so easy to brush it off now. I credit this site, Your Brain on Porn and The Easy Peasy Method for helping me along the way. But I do feel that I had to get to the point where I was hating myself for this behavior. I was sitting here with my pants around my ankles wondering the hell I was doing. I had had enough.

Now, I don't want to make it sound like it has been easy. The first 45 days were great. I was craving but I was fighting. But then for the next 40 or 50 days I was questioning the whole process. I was ready to throw in the towel. Somehow I made it through that phase and around 100 days the cloud lifted, my brain felt clear and I haven't experienced that kind of craving since. 160 days today. I can't even believe it myself.

So, I know I still have a long way to go to be healed, but I'm seeing a light at the end of the tunnel. I found that the more I focused on other things, the easier it was. For me it's been exercise and music. And of course this site. Every time I got a craving, go to rebootnation.org instead of porn site. Read the success stories. Read the failures or let's say lapses. As long as we keep trying, keep coming back here, they are just lapses. If you walk away and give in to the addiction completely, then that is a failure.

I hope my story helps. I'm hoping for a happy ending, but if I'm in the middle of my recovery, it's a pretty good book so far.

Stay strong, stay focused, find something you love and throw yourself into it and come here often to get support and to get the nonsense out of your head. Good luck.
Hey, man, thanks for stopping by to write this. Very inspiring. I can relate to "first 45 days". During my best streak, in the first 40+ days I experienced many very tough days with urges but I pushed through using motivation and willpower. I had started the streak with this motivation and determination and that fueled my streak but after that I started to get mentally exhausted from fighting urges and craving. Since then I haven't had the same stamina to replicate it. Maybe this time...

I definitely have something I want to start doing but I haven't really had too much motivation and excitement to start. The thought of doing it didn't make me feel anything so I said "Okay, I'll do it one day but I need to get a longer streak first." This has been my routine so far: Binge -> No motivation, excitement or feeling anything about doing stuff -> "I need to get a longer streak and that should get me some motivation to start doing the things I want" -> "Urges are too strong" -> Binge again. And the wheel spins around. I have so trouble figuring out what I need to do.
 

Escapeandnevercomeback

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I crave drinking, like crazy. This is my limit. It's around 1 month that I start messing around with alcohol after attempting sobriety. And this leads to porn binges and other troubles.

Drinking gave me this: Parents mad at me, heart palpitations, many sleepless nights before work, anxiety and panic attacks.

Since I stopped drinking a month ago I've had no palpitation, sleep is better in general, my parents like it that I don't sit anymore in front of them and saying all those stupid things, talking non-stop and having rage moments.

Staying sober has a lot of benefits. But I'm "willing" to through everything away for a day of "pleasure", which leads to back to my drinking routine.

I haven't had much success with porn since quitting alcohol so this is another reason brought by my alcohol addicted brain why I should drink. "You stay away from drinking because it leads you to porn binges, right? Well, you still do this so why bother?" It's not just for the sake of staying porn free though but maybe it was no. 1 on the list of benefits and maybe that's why.

Fuck. I'm trapped in craving to things...
 

Phineas 808

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Escape, think of it this way. The birth of a new born baby, it's not very pleasant in itself, and excruciatingly painful for the mother. It's bloody, it's messy, and there's no other pain like it. But once the child is born, the mother forgets her horrible pain because she's now holding her precious newborn.

Think of it the same way. It sucks, battling on two fronts, porn and drinking. But you know to give in and keep these habbits going is a poison to both your body (the booze) and your soul (the porn). It's horrible, but the alternative is way worse than the pain of saying, 'No'.

Give the 'new you' a chance, imagine the joy on the other side, once you've faced down this 'two-headed beast' of porn and alcohol. Slay this dragon, and let the newborn you have a chance to live, truly live.

You can do it, Escape. Never give up, never give in. But if you did drop your sword, don't beat yourself up with it. Pick it up, and slay the true enemy!
 

Escapeandnevercomeback

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Escape, think of it this way. The birth of a new born baby, it's not very pleasant in itself, and excruciatingly painful for the mother. It's bloody, it's messy, and there's no other pain like it. But once the child is born, the mother forgets her horrible pain because she's now holding her precious newborn.

Think of it the same way. It sucks, battling on two fronts, porn and drinking. But you know to give in and keep these habbits going is a poison to both your body (the booze) and your soul (the porn). It's horrible, but the alternative is way worse than the pain of saying, 'No'.

Give the 'new you' a chance, imagine the joy on the other side, once you've faced down this 'two-headed beast' of porn and alcohol. Slay this dragon, and let the newborn you have a chance to live, truly live.

You can do it, Escape. Never give up, never give in. But if you did drop your sword, don't beat yourself up with it. Pick it up, and slay the true enemy!
Okay bro
 

Escapeandnevercomeback

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They won’t last...

They will subside, just like a bell curve...

Breathe through them being nonjudgmental, and see what’s on the other side.
Bro, I haven't said this so far. This urge surfing thing has been helping me a little bit but the part where you say "nonjudgmental" is what gives me the most trouble because I have a hard time not to get involved with those fuckin urges.
 

Escapeandnevercomeback

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What I've noticed is that, in my mind, the thought to act out and the thought to stay away from porn alternate. I could feel this strong determination to relapse but then an hour later I read something or watch something and I switch to, "That's right, man, I don't want to relapse." It's always better to wait and tell yourself, "Okay, not right now, even if I'm to relapse anyway, just not this minute." Waiting does wonders.
 
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