"Free January" challenge

joepanic

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Day 22 of Jan challenge  and day 51 of current reboot  all clear

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Psyc Ops

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22 clear.  XFL91 asked about morning wood.  It is an interesting phenomena in connection with porn addiction.  When I was using porn, never.  Now, without porn, almost every morning. There is a neurological explanation, but I do not know what it is. Back tomorrow to report 23 clear.  Post often.  It helped me, it will help you. Smiley face emodicon.  But seriously, yeah.
 

joepanic

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Day 23  of Jan Challenge  and day 52 or current reboot  all clear here

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malando

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Not sure what happened to the OP, Changemylife. He seems to have deactivated his account. Sounds like he is in a bad place after his relapse. Hope he can find his way back.
 
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Psyc Ops

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Sometimes we just have to leave.  The purpose of this place is to fix it; fixing it does not take forever.  Fixing it sucks, but pain is the price we pay for freedom. I am grateful for Gabe because he built a place to fix it.  Changemylife helped us by starting this.  He is walking his road; we are walking ours.  Those roads are always challenging.  I will finish this month clear.  24.  Clear. Never going back.

 

joepanic

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Day 24 of Jan Challenge Day 53 of current reboot    Felt the chaser effect for the 1st time on Wed  after making love with my wife Tues night really noticed the triggers  and had a few urges  but glad to say no pmo.

      Psyc Ops  it is true  these road are challenging        not only challenging but changing too

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Day 24 Hardmode. I have noticed that pretty much all urges have subsided. Not masturbating or looking at porn substitutes seems to be my automatic setting now, rather than vice versa. Of course, I am very much aware that this could simply be a temporary illusion. I'm not planning on becoming complacent. Not sure how I feel once I hit the 30 day mark at the end of the month - I have a feeling it could be point of inflexion, which might be hard to deal with psychologically.

Finally, I would like to extend my gratitude to changemylife for starting this thread - were it not for him and this thread I do not think I would have started the new year with a renewed determination or been able to string this streak together (my longest since last spring). Thank you.
 

joepanic

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Day 25  all clear  day 54 or current reboot  cheers to all

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joepanic

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Day 26 of Jan Challenge  Day 55 current reboot  another tough night  but made it through with no pmo  no mo and no o  must be working though something  that twice this week  had some urges and needed to fight them  ahh well  we go on vacation this week for a few days  should be good for the fight

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joepanic

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Day 27 of challenge and day 56 of current reboot  feeling better again  after a 2nd close call  busy days ahead with work and a mini vacation  should be all good

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joepanic

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Super busy day  just reporting in now for day 28 of Jan challenge  and day 57 of current reboot  all is good  go on vacation in less than 2 days

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Psyc Ops

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28 +29.  Yesterday, posting here just did not occur to me, as in the thought did not pass my mind.  I have been clean for a lot longer than 29 days.  It takes a lot of concentration, effort, and commitment to get clean, once addicted, but once you achieve clean, then staying clean becomes second nature.  It is about changing life patterns.
 

joepanic

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day 29 of Jan challenge  and day 58 of  reboot  actually felt some urges last night  for wanting to hit the old chat line I actually made it there but did not do any sexting or looking at pics  no pmo  no mo  no m  I used to frequent just a general chat line that always turned to sexting and surfing p  tube sites exc  this time i didnt go that road  and  something in my mind said you really dont need to be here at all  I moved along and  hung on wookiepedia  for a while and went to bed  very busy day at work today  and vacation tomorrow

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