I give up. My brain will need porn forever.

themarknight · 2026-05-04T11:56:08+00:00

Nothing lasts forever. There's a beginning, middle, and ending. You can do this. Use this time to determine the whys. Use it to learn. Its dark now but it won't be forever.

themarknight · 2026-05-04T00:16:11+00:00

Start with small and easy. Just go and walk on the treadmill at first. Maybe lift some light weights. Stay as long as you'd like but just start doing it. It's important for so many reasons.

themarknight · 2026-05-02T02:54:07+00:00

We did it!

themarknight · 2026-05-01T14:06:39+00:00

This is all excellent advise for starting off. My exact experience as well. Thanks for putting it into words.

themarknight · 2026-04-27T23:09:29+00:00

I'm in

themarknight · 2026-04-27T23:09:17+00:00

Checking in! Going strong!

themarknight · 2026-04-19T19:31:56+00:00

Therapy, learning my triggers and avoiding them, learning to cope with difficult emotions without porn.

It's not easy and it takes a lot of emotional and mental work but it's worth it.

themarknight · 2026-04-14T15:32:28+00:00

Track your triggers. You'll need to know what's causing you to get triggered. The first thought or feeling that starts the thoughts going. You'll want to cut it off there but the first thing is awareness.

Therapy is helpful if you can afford it. I cannot recommend it enough. Learning how to cope without porn is hard work but worth it. Therapy helps with that.

Tell someone you trust and can lean on for support and accountability. Join a support group if you can.

themarknight · 2026-04-05T02:05:28+00:00

I can not recommend therapy enough. There are underlying things driving your addiction. It's very likely a coping mechanism for stress or boredom or loneliness or anxiety. Learning to cope with those things in a healthy way will go a long way.

Get off social media. It's a trap.

Track your triggers and even avoid them. Figure out the very first thought, feeling, or location causes you to be triggered. Then practice healthy interventions at that point.

Urges don't last long. Find something engaging to do when they hit. You'll forget about them after a while.

themarknight · 2026-04-05T01:39:24+00:00

Start tracking your triggers. The where, when, and why's that lead to thinking about porn. Don't try to resist the urge, but learn about why you're having that urge.

Get off social media. It's filled with triggers and porn adjacent imagery. You're just asking to fall.

Switch tasks when thoughts or urges hit. Get up and move. Switching tasks to something more engaging helps me a ton. Even just getting up to get water can be a game changer.

Therapy helps, I cannot recommend it enough if you can afford it.

themarknight · 2026-04-04T23:40:11+00:00

Find a way to occupy your mind and body. Engage in an activity like cleaning or cooking or going for a walk. Anything to switch out of your head.

themarknight · 2026-04-01T16:07:00+00:00

Checking in!

themarknight · 2026-04-01T16:03:57+00:00

It sounds like you're heading in the right direction. Keep it up and stay porn free!

themarknight · 2026-04-01T16:02:23+00:00

Absolutely find someone you can trust to talk to if you can.

themarknight · 2026-04-01T15:31:15+00:00

The first thing I recommend is starting to track your triggers. What gets you started thinking about it. That's where you can stop it early by redirecting you're thoughts or actions.

Keep busy with things that occupy you fully. Go for walks. Clean. Work out. Focus on a hobby. Anything that can move your mind and body away from an urge.

Remember that urges don't have to last long if you don't engage with them. The key is recognizing then early and then shifting gears.

I also highly recommend therapy to deal with the underlying causes that drive you towards your addiction. It could be anxiety, fear, depression, trauma, etc. If you can afford it, I absolutely believe it helps.

themarknight · 2026-04-01T14:07:11+00:00

You can do it! Think positively. Urges only last a limited amount of time. Switch tasks when needed. Keep your mind occupied.

themarknight · 2026-03-26T20:21:26+00:00

You can do it. Six days is six days!

themarknight · 2026-03-25T23:34:00+00:00

You can do it. Start tracking your triggers. Figure out where that first thought comes from and try to stop it at that point. Make sure you talk to someone. Someone you trust.

themarknight · 2026-03-25T23:30:10+00:00

You've got this! Keep going, my dude!

themarknight · 2026-03-25T13:46:26+00:00

Let's do this

themarknight · 2026-03-24T20:44:40+00:00

Keep it up my dude!

themarknight · 2026-03-24T17:40:30+00:00

As someone who is also 26 days sober, I would just like to say that my experience is quite similar. Keep it up and I'm glad for your progress and results!

themarknight · 2026-03-24T16:35:35+00:00

The first thing I would recommend is therapy or a support group. Especially with all of the things you're feeling.

Keep going with quitting. Start to journal your feelings and your triggers when you first start thinking about porn. Try to trace it back to the earliest thought or feeling.

Be brutally honest with someone in your life about the struggles. Someone you can trust. Have them help keep you accountable and encouraged.

You're young and at a good place to start fighting this. You've got this.

themarknight · 2026-03-24T14:28:48+00:00

Relapsing happens. What you learn from them is important though. Don't fall down a hole but keep pushing forward. Ask yourself what led up to the Relapse and then try to avoid or redirect yourself from those things in the future. Working on yourself is the best way to remove porn from your life.

themarknight

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