BlueHeronFan said:
I think you have already found some of your answers. You're relapsing more because you have less to do and you are spending more time alone.
What can you do to stay busier and spend more time around other people? I don't really like going out or being people that much, but it's a matter of survival if it means staying away from porn. Even if it seems hard, you have to be deliberate about filling your day with good activities. If you leave room in your day for porn, it will always take control.
Spending time alone is definitely a problem. I've experienced that. Also, when you don't find things to do that you can enjoy, you are more likely to feel low, deprived of "joy" if you understand what I mean, and look for "ways" to "elevate" yourself and bring some "joy" to your moment, and P is right there. P is the fake pleasure that promises to make you feel good and forget about everything.
There is the other side of the coin too: P numbs your dopamine receptors and could make you not enjoy other things too much. You might want to lie down all day without doing nothing. That's why is very necessary to stay away from P and do those other things and try to enjoy them even if you don't right now. You have to push through it until you get used to it. While some people might enjoy doing things alone, majority of people need to spend time with others and find activities with them (that's me - I like to do some things by myself but I get bored eventually).
Not less important is investing your energy in good things, because PMO consumes your energy and, at the end of the day, it's also comes down to what you choose to invest your energy in. You know that investing this energy in P doesn't leave you energy for other things that's why you don't want to do anything anymore after PMO. I just want to sleep after that. When I was in high school, I didn't know that I shouldn't have PMO-ed first thing in the morning. I would do it a few times before leaving for high school so I went to classes feeling already tired, dragging my feet and stuff. I had thrown away a part of my energy with a "second of pleasure".