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Hi All, Sharing my experiences on my blog too, hope these can reach a wider audience than one on a dedicated site as I feel awareness of the harm porn can do is something we need to be able to share. By the time you've found a resource like this site, it may be because the damage has already...

Hi, I'm trying to quit PMO at a pretty senior age of 52, having used porn for close to 35 years and internet porn for around 20 years, so it's no easy task. I have an avoidant attachment (https://www.verywellmind.com/attachment-styles-2795344), mainly I think because my mother had PND. As a...

Hi all, I'm aware this may not apply to everyone here, but if your porn addiction / compulsion is a sex addiction you may find it has its roots in your childhood (like mine) and if so, you may find this book entertaining but also something to open your eyes...

Hi, I'm not necessarily expecting an answer to this, but has anyone here ever investigated the possibility of PMO, especially to porn, to be a form of OCD rather than an addiction? I ask, because with other issues related to my compulsion I've been having passive suicidal thoughts, mainly...

One of the things I read about in 'Your Brain on Porn' was the effect that compulsion to use porn and masturbation had on your emotions; essentially, rewiring your brain's reward system numbs your emotional responses, and it's only after withdrawal that you start to feel your emotions more...

I'm perhaps two months into a reboot. I have to admit to a few lapses, but I've been through the major withdrawal and associated depression, etc, the trick is to stay strong for longer and hope the desire to return to it fades. My concern is the PIED. As yet I'm not seeing or feeling that...

Does anyone have any experience on for how long and how often brain fog comes and goes when you're rebooting? Mine has been present since around 2 weeks ago (I'm 5.5 weeks into reboot with one porn-related lapse and one ejaculation with my partner present), but had started to fade over the...

Hi, I am back here again, so this isn't really an introduction. Porn addicton threatens to ruin my life, if it hasn't already. I am 53, separated from my wife and porn is a huge factor. I am with a new partner, she knows about my addiction. I broke down and confessed a few weeks ago when I...

I'm curious about this aspect of rebooting. I have a perception of myself through the porn use that I'm rather unemotional, however my psychotherapist has suggested I have a lot of emotion but just don't let it surface, that I have buried it. This might not be completely down to the porn use...

One thing that a relative noted about me in the month or so after my split from my wife was that I didn't ever seem 'joyous' about anything. She said I didn't seem to have things I desired or preferences that gave me a 'high' - could this be the dopamine affecting me, my 'artificial' highs...

So here is my first post, and I hope it might help me and maybe others too; to help them avoid the mistakes I have made that have hurt someone I care for immeasurably. Had I not been so 'self-satisfied' maybe it wouldn't have taken until the age of nearly 48 to realise this. Anyone who has seen...

Hi, I've struggled with porn addiction for maybe 40 years, I'm 47, and it has cost me my marriage. This is such a complex story, I go over and over the circumstances of my marriage ending in my mind but the one thing I haven't told anyone, barring one wonderfully understanding girl, is that I...