MashuSan
Member
The hardest part about stopping your porn addiction is restarting.
I’ve been on this forum in 2015, 2018 and now again. For almost 10 years I’ve been trying to quit and I still haven’t been able to get through a whole year without porn... lol can’t even get through 8 months.
my life has changed a lot since 2015. I don’t just want to “f*ck girls” anymore, I have a girlfriend, I want kids, and I still haven’t been able to stop porn. How am I going to tell my kids not to watch porn when I can’t even do it??!!!!
I feel shame and guilt when I masturbate to absurd things. I want that to change. The worst part is that it doesn’t go away instantly, it takes time to forget, time to measure your success then time to feel good about yourself.
I would say that I have to put in the work, but I’ve been doing it for nearly ten years!! I’ve been trying over and over again and I still can’t last. There’s always one point where my brain just gets overrun. I completely forget all the shame and guilt I’ve experienced in the past, or will experience after coming and I still go for it. Sometimes ruining my streak.
I’ve tried several ways but I haven’t tried therapy. I’ve tried journaling, willpower, counters with increasing increments, studying, trying to change my mindset, reaching out to others, telling some people in my inner circle, but in the end no one really cares or follows up and a lot of methods didn’t end up working.
It was easier to quit smoking.
I actually read a book called’The easy way to stop smoking’ by Allen Carr, and he applies two principles which worked for me: decide on the day you’ll quit and stick to it, and whenever you’re confronted with the urge just mentally celebrate in your mind that you’re not indulging and be inwardly and outwardly happy about.
I don’t know... maybe I should try harder to apply those principles, or maybe I just just do all of the above in tandem. Who knows.
I’ve been on this forum in 2015, 2018 and now again. For almost 10 years I’ve been trying to quit and I still haven’t been able to get through a whole year without porn... lol can’t even get through 8 months.
my life has changed a lot since 2015. I don’t just want to “f*ck girls” anymore, I have a girlfriend, I want kids, and I still haven’t been able to stop porn. How am I going to tell my kids not to watch porn when I can’t even do it??!!!!
I feel shame and guilt when I masturbate to absurd things. I want that to change. The worst part is that it doesn’t go away instantly, it takes time to forget, time to measure your success then time to feel good about yourself.
I would say that I have to put in the work, but I’ve been doing it for nearly ten years!! I’ve been trying over and over again and I still can’t last. There’s always one point where my brain just gets overrun. I completely forget all the shame and guilt I’ve experienced in the past, or will experience after coming and I still go for it. Sometimes ruining my streak.
I’ve tried several ways but I haven’t tried therapy. I’ve tried journaling, willpower, counters with increasing increments, studying, trying to change my mindset, reaching out to others, telling some people in my inner circle, but in the end no one really cares or follows up and a lot of methods didn’t end up working.
It was easier to quit smoking.
I actually read a book called’The easy way to stop smoking’ by Allen Carr, and he applies two principles which worked for me: decide on the day you’ll quit and stick to it, and whenever you’re confronted with the urge just mentally celebrate in your mind that you’re not indulging and be inwardly and outwardly happy about.
I don’t know... maybe I should try harder to apply those principles, or maybe I just just do all of the above in tandem. Who knows.