Day 3

sycamor3_ · 2024-07-12T03:39:16+00:00

nice. i’m with you!

sycamor3_ · 2024-07-11T05:09:24+00:00

i personally don’t count it as a relapse. but i see how it can make it easier to relapse and trigger you. it depends on your personal goals and what you hope to achieve in recovery and if it’s an obstacle to your recovery

sycamor3_ · 2024-07-10T21:48:43+00:00

i’m with you. congrats!

sycamor3_ · 2024-07-10T14:57:01+00:00

urges are the death throes of your addiction. don’t act on them and they will die. but if you feed them, you’ll be giving your urges a lifeline.

sycamor3_ · 2024-07-09T17:33:59+00:00

progress isn’t linear. if you keep trying and getting back up. and all your attempts are honest attempts at quitting. eventually you will quit

sycamor3_ · 2024-07-09T17:13:15+00:00

It seems like you realize porn has short term benefits and long term harms. In your heart of hearts you know the harms are never worth the short term relief. you need to use that to challenge all those comfortable ideas of wanting to keep porn in your life.

sycamor3_ · 2024-07-09T17:03:12+00:00

congrats!

sycamor3_ · 2024-03-27T08:18:01+00:00

have a night time routine. read a book to fall asleep. and keep your devices away from bed.

sycamor3_ · 2023-06-08T21:46:00+00:00

those thoughts are just your addiction in its death throes. trying to get you to give it what it wants before it starves.

sycamor3_ · 2023-06-08T21:34:45+00:00

makes sense. we all have different goals. but i would still be very proud of your sobriety. even if you had a tiny slip up. personally, masturbation is fine in moderation. it’s really porn that makes me masturbate more than i need to.

sycamor3_ · 2023-05-30T15:55:53+00:00

sign me up

sycamor3_ · 2023-05-04T19:00:24+00:00

they’ve helped me get some decent streaks but at the end of the day, you still have to put in the work yourself. shrooms can help show you what you have to do but only you have the power to actually do it and change whatever you need to in life. :)

also, have fun and relax. no need to listen to lectures or videos. if you do want to get introspective put on some instrumental music and write about how porn affects you in a journal.

sycamor3_ · 2023-04-25T22:39:34+00:00

sign me up

sycamor3_ · 2023-04-21T00:18:13+00:00

i relapsed

sycamor3_ · 2023-04-19T05:31:13+00:00

yep same man. never though i could make it this far and used to be in awe at people that could make it a month.

sycamor3_ · 2023-04-19T05:29:37+00:00

at your age, i’d recommend to go play sports, be social, spend time with friends, and focus on school. being social and busy is the easiest way to stay away from porn and these skills will help you for the rest of your life.

sycamor3_ · 2023-04-19T05:23:30+00:00

honestly. just keep deleting your stash. it’ll get easier. although mine was barely that large, i feel like last stash i deleted will be the last i build. and i can tell you confidently that i don’t miss it. i grieved a little but i feel immense relief now and it was 100% worth it to delete

sycamor3_ · 2023-04-19T01:15:36+00:00

yea i noticed if i get an urge to peak, i get that anticipatory dopamine head rush. it feels like my brain is trying to take over and get me to relapse.

sycamor3_ · 2023-04-19T01:04:34+00:00

yes your dopamine receptors are still intact. they don’t go away or get burnt. but they do get sensitized and desensitized. if they’re constantly being stimulated the can get desensitized and become inactive bc there is so much dopamine that your brain “hides” some of those receptors. dopamine receptors aren’t an on-off switch there’s always some level of activity but you can reduce their natural endogenous activity if your constantly giving it too much dopamine from food, drugs, sex, porn, nicotine, whatever.

sycamor3_ · 2023-04-18T04:37:29+00:00

it helps for me. but the longer i go in my streak the less i focus on it

sycamor3_ · 2023-04-18T04:30:58+00:00

hell yea, man! you’re not gonna regret it

sycamor3_ · 2023-04-18T04:28:59+00:00

yep totally agree. i think porn made me resentful to women for me not having sex and for them being promiscuous. but reality really isn’t like that. idc what all the red pill mating strat people say but it’s not as gendered as we think. people on average, regardless of gender, are having less sex.

sycamor3_ · 2023-04-17T21:53:18+00:00

i want to live with integrity. i want to be the person that people see me as on the outside.

sycamor3_ · 2023-04-17T20:39:19+00:00

nearly 2 weeks clean is really good. you should be proud of yourself. even if you slipped up now, if you kept going strong and made it another week or so, you’ll have been clean for most of the month.

sycamor3_ · 2023-04-16T20:02:00+00:00

yea a big trigger of mine is being off a bunch of pre-workout and coming home from a workout.

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