gladiatore
Member
Hi all,
I apologize in advance for my incorrect english, as it’s not my native language.
A little bit of history about me…
I started PMO since my 15 or around that. I remember I was spending hours watching porn videos even before my very first masturbation and obviously the very first time I ejaculated was in front of a porn video. I realized when I was around 20 that I was not capable of getting an erection without my favourite type of porn, of course I panicked, I started doing some research and I ended up on YBOP.
Everything made sense for me as I was a 20 years old healthy guy and the only possible reason was my addiction to porn.
I realized that at that age I was a virgin, shy guy, without any energy and motivation and I understood that my porn addiction was the problem, spending hours and hours in front of a pc trying to find the perfect scene instead of socializing and feeding my passions.
I decided to quit porn for good and as much as I could also masturbation.
My journey had been non linear so I’m not here talking about how long it took as everyone of us is different and is a mistake to compare each other’s healing process.
But I want to share my story here and what I think can be useful advices as I hope this can help.
First thing you need to do is to go to your andrologist, is important to rule out any possible physical cause and there’s also nothing wrong as a man to have a check up once a year or something to get your hormones and everything checked. Women do that too.
Believe in the process, quit porn forever and don’t replace it with any other addiction.This means that every addiction like cigarettes, drugs or alcohol can be an obstacle to your dopamine system rebalance. Don’t give any chance to those things to slow down your journey.
Be even careful to socials as they can become an addiction too, this is still a challenge for me but I’m doing my best to reduce my time on socials as much as I can.
Most of everything I’m sure you know already which are of course staying away from porn and rewire your brain with real human interaction.
But two things I consider has been really important for me and I think they are too underrated: meditation and cold showers.
I don’t wanna go deep into the science of that but these two have been scientifically proven to be helpful to normalize and even raise your baseline level of dopamine other than many other health benefits.
I reccomend to do it daily as I think they have been crucial me.
Accept the failure during the process and even after you are healed. This means that sometime you can be tired, have performance anxiety, not too involved in that situation…You are a man, not a robot, accept the fact that failure can happen to anyone and take it easy.
I finally feel like I can move on from this chapter of my life.
I wanna say a big thank you to all of you and expecially Gabe Deem for sharing your stories.
Thank you all guys!
I apologize in advance for my incorrect english, as it’s not my native language.
A little bit of history about me…
I started PMO since my 15 or around that. I remember I was spending hours watching porn videos even before my very first masturbation and obviously the very first time I ejaculated was in front of a porn video. I realized when I was around 20 that I was not capable of getting an erection without my favourite type of porn, of course I panicked, I started doing some research and I ended up on YBOP.
Everything made sense for me as I was a 20 years old healthy guy and the only possible reason was my addiction to porn.
I realized that at that age I was a virgin, shy guy, without any energy and motivation and I understood that my porn addiction was the problem, spending hours and hours in front of a pc trying to find the perfect scene instead of socializing and feeding my passions.
I decided to quit porn for good and as much as I could also masturbation.
My journey had been non linear so I’m not here talking about how long it took as everyone of us is different and is a mistake to compare each other’s healing process.
But I want to share my story here and what I think can be useful advices as I hope this can help.
First thing you need to do is to go to your andrologist, is important to rule out any possible physical cause and there’s also nothing wrong as a man to have a check up once a year or something to get your hormones and everything checked. Women do that too.
Believe in the process, quit porn forever and don’t replace it with any other addiction.This means that every addiction like cigarettes, drugs or alcohol can be an obstacle to your dopamine system rebalance. Don’t give any chance to those things to slow down your journey.
Be even careful to socials as they can become an addiction too, this is still a challenge for me but I’m doing my best to reduce my time on socials as much as I can.
Most of everything I’m sure you know already which are of course staying away from porn and rewire your brain with real human interaction.
But two things I consider has been really important for me and I think they are too underrated: meditation and cold showers.
I don’t wanna go deep into the science of that but these two have been scientifically proven to be helpful to normalize and even raise your baseline level of dopamine other than many other health benefits.
I reccomend to do it daily as I think they have been crucial me.
Accept the failure during the process and even after you are healed. This means that sometime you can be tired, have performance anxiety, not too involved in that situation…You are a man, not a robot, accept the fact that failure can happen to anyone and take it easy.
I finally feel like I can move on from this chapter of my life.
I wanna say a big thank you to all of you and expecially Gabe Deem for sharing your stories.
Thank you all guys!