I need to up my game.

Phineas 808

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Okay, man. I understand what you are saying. It's just that... I'm tired of not getting that last streak to salvation. This addiction has taken too much from me. Since I was 13... 17 years, bro. I am tired of returning back to the same old.

We all want our current streak to be 'the one'- I certainly did when I hit 139 days by last March. But where my head was at, I knew I was all but likely to lapse, and when I did, I wasn't all too surprised. Been here too many times... And it was hard to find traction again, but I kept trying. I'm barely now ready to complete my latest abstinence challenge at the end of the month. And still, it's easy to drift back into old habits.

The kind of vigilance this thing requires is incredible- but it has to be toward the right approach, or else it's draining if all we're relying on is sheer will-power. If we don't want to return back to the same old, then we'll keep doing something new, something different.

I know you've heard this: that a definition of insanity is to keep doing the same old things, and expect different results. This thing demands that you take a fresh look at your methods, change it up, make it exciting, even fun for yourself. This thing breeds in negativity, so- and it might not be your personality-type, but it's time to get 'crazy positive', that's what it's going to take to beat this thing!
 

Escapeandnevercomeback

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Day 2

I worked night shift and then I went to the store but I denied myself the opportunity to also buy something to drink and sadness came. I was sad and pissed off on my way home. It's no secret that I'm an alcoholic and I can't stay porn free because of it.
 
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Escapeandnevercomeback

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Day 3

Tempted today. My addicted brain tells me to do some edging to porn induced fantasies and it's actually pretty good at making that practice seem harmless in comparison to watching hardcore.

I crave drinking.
 
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Phineas 808

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These cravings and urges will come (to either habit). Be nonjudgmental, observe these feelings mindfully, and just breathe deeply until they pass. They will pass. You can outlast any urge, any craving from the lower brain. If they return, rinse-and-repeat.

It takes practice, but you'll get it, Escape!
 

jonazo91

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Day 3

Tempted today. My addicted brain tells me to do some edging to porn induced fantasies and it's actually pretty good at making that practice seem harmless in comparison to watching hardcore.

I crave drinking.
Hey man, I just gotta say, quitting two very real addictions is quite the achievement, no matter how long it takes. I'm impressed by that. It wouldn't be called an addiction if you were able to quit it easily, and just because you relapsed before doesn't mean you're a failure at what you're doing. The trying again is the doing it. Every millisecond that you hold off your temptations is a success, and you can do it again in the next millisecond. I don't know if that's a helpful way to look at it, but I hope it is.
 

Escapeandnevercomeback

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Hey man, I just gotta say, quitting two very real addictions is quite the achievement, no matter how long it takes. I'm impressed by that. It wouldn't be called an addiction if you were able to quit it easily, and just because you relapsed before doesn't mean you're a failure at what you're doing. The trying again is the doing it. Every millisecond that you hold off your temptations is a success, and you can do it again in the next millisecond. I don't know if that's a helpful way to look at it, but I hope it is.
That's right, man. Thanks.
 

yogi

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Escape do not despair buddy!
Relapses hit any time, and when they do, they hit hard.

It's old pathways fighting for life.
But you can and will overcome them.

Read your own blog once again.
Read all the literature once again.
listen to all those videos/ podcasts once again.

Again strengthen your will power. It's a continuous process.
 

Escapeandnevercomeback

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Escape do not despair buddy!
Relapses hit any time, and when they do, they hit hard.

It's old pathways fighting for life.
But you can and will overcome them.

Read your own blog once again.
Read all the literature once again.
listen to all those videos/ podcasts once again.

Again strengthen your will power. It's a continuous process.
Sure, man. Thanks.
 

xjonny88x

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Day 10

I need to up my game. At the beginning of this year I thought I was going to have a 3 months long streak by March and almost half of year is gone and I'm still deep. Fortunately, I haven't come here following a binge, that happened 10 days ago but I don't want to go back to the misery. Like this, another year will be gone with me not being able to overcome this thing. This addiction is the chains that hold me back. I need to be driven. I could never be my best version with what this thing is doing to my mind. I need to get my mind back first.
Absolutely, I'm the same way. I want to be better riding my mountain bike, I want my GED, I want a better paying job. But with my addiction constantly attacking me and making me vulnerable, I can never get my feet off the ground. Keep fighting!!!
 

xjonny88x

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Day 11

Complete porn abandonment is the key. Complete starvation. It's hard but necessary. I can't waste any more time, I'm almost 31. It could easily turn into a "Relapse-Restart" marathon for life. I could be here at 40 years old writing the same fuckin "Day 1 I am depressed la la la". I need to remember what I'm really doing here.
Neither do I and I'm 33
 

Escapeandnevercomeback

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Day 4

Very tough day. A big part of the day I had this kind of "anxiety mistaken for urges" type of thing that Your Brain On Porn talks about. It's a sort of urge of its kind. It's not that violent "now" urge that suffocates me but it's a lingering annoying urge in a moment of weakness that it's so hard to control for me. I barely survived, bro. I was this close to start edging. Then I went to work, afternoon shift and I felt miserable in there. Because nowadays I work alone, I had a strong urge to start watching porn right there, on my phone! I wanted to start watching porn then go to the bathroom to finish. I haven't done this bullshit in years, man! It disgusts me to even think about it. This is what this shit turns you into. I barely fuckin survived.

Then a deep depressive episode started... Again the same fuckin thing, being in no mood to talk to anybody or do anything, fortunately I work alone. Fuck, man. Thoughts about drinking entered my mind and I started thinking intensely about buying something to drink after work, I was this close with this too. I managed to survive this as well but denying myself the opportunity to drink makes me depressed. I had this sadness in me and feeling of low dopamine on my way home. I'm struggling with two addictions... I've been kind of depressed lately and unmotivated to do all this.
 

Phineas 808

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Proud of you for withstanding and dismissing two urges to two addictions. If we can get ourselves into two messes, we can walk back out of two messes.

I know the lower brain is sending all these signals of urges and then depressive feelings if the urges aren't met. But it's all 'thought/feeling' from the lower brain, and it can't make you do anything.

Think of how empowered you'll be for waiting, overcoming, dismissing these urges! You'll come out of this stronger, and more resilent. You're lower brain (the beast-brain) expects you to keep failing, so it can keep getting its dopamine. But you deserve so much more in life!

Keep fighting, brother!
 

Escapeandnevercomeback

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Proud of you for withstanding and dismissing two urges to two addictions. If we can get ourselves into two messes, we can walk back out of two messes.

I know the lower brain is sending all these signals of urges and then depressive feelings if the urges aren't met. But it's all 'thought/feeling' from the lower brain, and it can't make you do anything.

Think of how empowered you'll be for waiting, overcoming, dismissing these urges! You'll come out of this stronger, and more resilent. You're lower brain (the beast-brain) expects you to keep failing, so it can keep getting its dopamine. But you deserve so much more in life!

Keep fighting, brother!
Definitely. Dismiss the reptilian brain.
 
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Escapeandnevercomeback

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Absolutely, I'm the same way. I want to be better riding my mountain bike, I want my GED, I want a better paying job. But with my addiction constantly attacking me and making me vulnerable, I can never get my feet off the ground. Keep fighting!!!
Porn is the ultimate motivation killer for me.
 
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Escapeandnevercomeback

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Day 6

I've been depressed for some days. I don't even know why I'm on day 6, the last two days I walked the thin line between the streak and the relapse. I feel I could relapse in any moment. I don't really have the motivation to do this.
 
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