Second reboot #shareyourstory

rad_sky

Member
Hello everyone
today i want to share my reboot process and my relapses in this two month

I decided to start rebooting in the beginning of May,  not long after my birthday (i thought im already 20 and im enough of this crappy stuff). I remembered that i post here in my first days and feel so motivated to reboot.
After 19 clean days of no PMO, the urge strikes back and i can't bear it that day and i gave up. I dont watch porn, i just read some adult story. I thought that adult story is better from porn because it contains no image, but i was totally WRONG.
Adult story was total injection of dopamine, because we can fantasize all we want and the story is usually very very fiction.

After that, i started to reboot again. I feel like i can fight harder with my additional relapse experience. In my 20th day, i was so horny and i can't focus in my activity. So i decided to masturbate without fantasy, after i read about that in YBOP. Again, i thought that it was no problem because i didnt include fantasy, but believe me, it was the DAMN door to relapse. I thought it was not conseidered as relapse, so i continue my count. In day 23, i relapse with porn! The real cause is the masturbation without porn, because it give the trigger to the pleasure that my brain familiar with.

I started again, and this time was very bad. Yesterday i relapse, and the count is just 6 days. But i dont give up, my spirit is still there. So this morning i downloaded our admin, Gabe Deem advice video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0dDLWGMhUo and feel absolutely motivated this time. I thought that my mistake is not sharing with other in my first days, because we need to share our
story to increase our confidence and spirit.

That's all, thanks for reading and feel free give me some advice, i'll appreciate it



 

dc6

Member
I love your spirit. Keep that can-do mindset and you will get there. No matter how many times you fall, you decide whether you get back up.

First thing i advise is finding something else you can use to fill the time previously taken up by PMO. It's important to focus on what you will use to fill the gap you are left with when removing a bad, time consuming habit.

Second, while it's good to be mindful of your triggers, you should also think about how you access porn in the first place and make that more difficult if not impossible. For instance, if you live with other people, sacrifice some privacy and move your computer to an open area. Take the door off of your room if you have to. If you live alone, just leave your home when you feel that urge. Take a walk around the neighborhood or go to a store nearby and make a game out of chatting up complete strangers. Whatever. Just get out of the range of porn.
 

rad_sky

Member
Thanks dc6 for your advice

Right now im busy with my study and preparation for college test this month. My daily activity is study,  and in my spare time, i used to play futsal with my friends. I live with my roomate in different city from my family, i dont have the problem when he's around, but usually he went to his family once a month, and that time was my real challenge.I used to go eat outside or meet my friend when my urge comes, but still, there is hard time when the urge to you-know-what is huge and that's when i relapsed.

I plan not to relapse anymore, even just masturbate without fantasy, because i know that it may bring his friends along.
 
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