Addicted for 10 years

I'm a 19 year old guy living in Canada, living with my family, and not much Luck with girls (I'm an attractive guy, I've certainly had opportunities to get a girlfriend, I'm just a dense idiot). Porn never affected my attraction to the women I knew, Porn was always one of my go to ways to relieve stress. Since I found porn, I was either 9 or 10 and I often went onto my father's work computer when he wasn't home, of course there were times I was caught, not directly but indirectly, like history and all that. When I was 12, I got a PC in my room and that PC got very slow, very quick. It was a porn machine, and eventually when I got a smart phone, that was a game changer. Just like any guy, I'd watch porn when I was alone, but I would also watch porn with one earbud in while my family was home and even in rooms right next to mine. At this point you could say I was addicted. By the time I was in high school, there were Tb's of porn on my PC, I would torrent 1080p scenes which were up to 5gb in size. In my high school years I would come home from school, watch a an hour of porn, get my homework done, play online with friends and after I was done for the day, reward myself for getting everything done with another hour of porn. If my friends were busy, the time I'd spend hanging with my friends, I'd use downloading and watching more porn. Porn from what I believe has merely been a hobby of mine that would double as an addiction. I just realized I'm making it sound like my life was all about porn, but no. Throughout those 10 years, I've done many many other things that I would call hobbies, but I've dropped some, and attained new ones. Porn has just be a constant in my life. Back then there were days where all I did was sit at my PC and watch porn/play videogames all day, and that's honestly normal for a guy that was in his teens. Although I have had rare days, where I was just horny the moment I wake up and the entire day, watch porn. But those days were far from frequent, like once everyone one or two months. During 2020, I graduated high school and because of covid-19, everyone's been working from home, and that made it difficult to try and reboot because I was starting college in the fall and all I could do was sit home on my pc all day. for that year of college, It was much okay. I didn't masturbate to often, If I remember correctly, but rebooting was out of the question at the time because of how the circumstances were for living in Canada at that time.


Back in September 2021 I was on these forums and around that time I really really wanted to quit or at the very least beat this addiction. Since then I've gone at most about 20 days before I relapsed. My Addiction always wins. I've read books on porn addiction and Its just extremely difficult. These recent months have been quite good, getting school work done, watching porn very few times a week. My addiction led to making a secondary account on social media sites, for perverse purposes, and I've deleted those accounts, I've also uninstalled my second browser that I used for anything porn related, with many many bookmarks. I deleted hundreds of porn videos off my PC. I've sit been home for the most part, rarely going out, not only because of covid, but now also because there has been massive amounts of snow outside, so going out is really not an option. So, as of now I'm still on college, still am addicted to porn, I never hated porn, I just understand I should take control of my use of porn.
Any Advice? I understand I didn't delete all my porn, that's because the Porn I still have are things I either purchased, or I cant find on the internet anymore.
 
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I am now 37 days pornfree, and the thing that helped me the most is to limit your time with devices that let you have access to these rotten sites. For me, I am only allowed to use youtube, reddit, and other the internet-sites for entertainment only on the weekend. And even then I have adblockers acitvated and I am on high alert because of triggers. There is this application for PC called Cold Turkey Blocker which allows you to block specific sites. It's free and really helped me in the beginning when I 'accidentaly' tried to surf reddit or youtube while I was working on my laptop. I also blocked specific sites on my IPhone and deleted any time sinking app like Youtube, Reddit, or news sites. It basically works like a communications device only now. I also go to the gym a lot.
Hope, there is something interesting here for you.
 
Oh wow, I dont think I'd ever not use YouTube, but yea using something like that would work, limiting my porn use to the weekend would certainly opening up my workdays. Although, if I limit porn to only the weekend, I think it'd be on my mind alot still and I'd be excited for weekends and sunday and saturday are both days where I'm watching porn all day
 
You really need to learn to hate it. It just gets worse. Read my story - it's a warning story. Hating it, I think, is the best way to kick the habit. Hating it may be easier for me because I see what it has done to me. Your mileage may vary - but consider me a road sign to take the nearest exit ramp and pick a different travel plan.

 
You really need to learn to hate it. It just gets worse. Read my story - it's a warning story. Hating it, I think, is the best way to kick the habit. Hating it may be easier for me because I see what it has done to me. Your mileage may vary - but consider me a road sign to take the nearest exit ramp and pick a different travel plan.

I read your story, its interesting. Because of what Porn had done to you, that's where your hate comes from. For me, I'm only 19 and I haven't experienced ED from what I could tell. I am still a virgin but that's due to me not going out and or meeting any new people since covid started. The person I was interested in is gone so Porn was what I used to feel something after she had left. I could masturbate without it, but I only watch it while I masturbate so the thought process is what's the point of masturbating without porn when I can easy see some beautiful women on my PC. So any hatred toward porn wouldn't be because of ED but because of possible future ED. Which makes complete sense but that honestly won't be enough to make me hate porn as its been apart of my life for so long. The best idea i think would be to install the cold turkey and lessen my porn usage more and more, bit by bit.
 
Right. I'm saying don't let yourself go down the path I went down.

Plus, I'm lucky. I'm in a really solid relationship. I don't need to worry about finding and developing a good relationship. Other younger peoples' stories tell tales of not being able to get into a good relationship. Relationships are what life is *about*, man (intimate ones as well as friendships and family -- people is what life is about)

It is like a drug. Occasional use won't kill you, but when you start spending large amounts of your time pursuing it, it'll screw up your drive and likely your life. I'm not saying it's ok or it's not ok. It is what it is, and it'll do what it does. Bottom line is, we were not designed for what is now so easily available to us 24-7. It WILL eventually fry those circuits, and recovery is not easy or necessarily fast.

Beware.
 
Right. I'm saying don't let yourself go down the path I went down.

Plus, I'm lucky. I'm in a really solid relationship. I don't need to worry about finding and developing a good relationship. Other younger peoples' stories tell tales of not being able to get into a good relationship. Relationships are what life is *about*, man (intimate ones as well as friendships and family -- people is what life is about)

It is like a drug. Occasional use won't kill you, but when you start spending large amounts of your time pursuing it, it'll screw up your drive and likely your life. I'm not saying it's ok or it's not ok. It is what it is, and it'll do what it does. Bottom line is, we were not designed for what is now so easily available to us 24-7. It WILL eventually fry those circuits, and recovery is not easy or necessarily fast.

Beware.
Ahh Well I agree 100%, I honestly wish the porn wasn't so easily accessible. It's a drug that I'd been using since I was 10, I'm not dependent on it however, which is most definitely a good thing.
 
I am so glad it was not available to me when I was in my teens ... and 20's, frankly. It probably wasn't trivially accessible until I was in my 40's.
 
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