The Defeat of Porn

[TomWood]

Hi everyone, it's good to be in such esteemed company; a group of people who want to give up something that is harming them and others.
I have been struggling with porn for forty years and in the older group, I guess that is common.
In the last six years, since I broke up with my partner, I have had a few no fap stretches; three lots of two months, a three month and four years ago, a six month! I thought I could just masturbate by touch with no images but that led to porn pretty quickly. There has also been several two week periods.
I am a trained therapist myself, so hopefully that is a type of encouragement to others in that we are all human.
I am on day 16 today and this time I want support. I did have a really good therapist when I did the six month thing but she worked for an organisation that only allowed for ten sessions per client-stuff happens. So hopefully reboot nation can be a good community for me to be a part of.

 

[switched_off_again]

Welcome to the community Tom.

It really does help checking in here regularly and knowing you are not facing this alone. Stay strong, keep trekking and don't give up!

 

[bob]

Tom,

We are all stronger when we fight to a single cause. And, as you well know, this one is a duesy.

On another note, you are in good company as one who continues to work through this thing. I have also gone for at least 3 months no mo or pmo but I haven't gotten to the point where it is behind me. And when it is behind me, I vow to remain vigilant as it always has the potential of rearing its ugly head.

Peace

 

[allforone]

Welcome to the community Tom.

 

[jjacks]

Welcome, Tom.  This is a safe place where you can ask anything and write down your innermost thoughts knowing they will not be challenged.

Keep writing your thoughts and feelings in this journal, day by day -- seeing them in black and white is therapeutic and watching the day count increase is encouraging.

It works.

-JJ

 

[TomWood]

Thanks everyone, this is the first time that I am doing this with a community. A therapist did help 4 years ago but I could only see her 12 times under the rules of that organisation that she worked for, so this hopefully will be a better way forward than doing it by myself

 

[TomWood]

At the one month point; and I am not actually counting days this time I am past the point of mega stress and into the really really tired stage. This is the six time I have gone this far and last September I went for two months but I don't recall being this tired. I did have Chronic Fatigue pretty bad then so I was already so tired I couldn't tell but this time as my CFS is less, I can tell. It's amazing how each time I go through this, I say to myself: "Don't forget how horrible this process is."  But so far I have forgotten otherwise I would never go through it again.