ED at 15! Change is now or never

Hi rebooters,
I'm a 16 year old guy who once thought he was invincible. At age 15 I realized that is not the case. In May of this year, about 7 months ago, I got PIED. It was totally humiliating when I was not able to perform with an attractive girl... Not to mention the fact that she went around telling people about my issue. Unfortunately it took me until over 5 months later to make the connection to a porn/masturbation problem. Before I found Gary's TED Talk, and YBOP.com, I visited numerous urologists, only to be told I was perfectly healthy.  Having a problem that i thought only 50-year-olds got, I spiraled into depression.

November 2nd, 2014 I started my no PMO journey. My equipment shriveled up the first 30 days which was scary. When this happens it's tempting to test things out, you know, to see if everything is not broken. DONT DO THIS. At day 30 I had my first morning wood in 6 months! This was a good reason for me to keep doing no PMO. I had several other morning woods, but now I feel as if I'm in a second flatline on day 45. I wonder if this is normal or if fantasizing has set me back. If anyone has any advice I would love to hear anything. Thank you.
 
Hey man, consider yourself lucky to have figured out the problem so young!! I dealt with that all throughout my teen years, failure after failure. So disheartening. Anyways, the second flatline is normal. Your recovery will be totally nonlinear, you will have good days and bad days, good weeks bad weeks etc and as time goes on more good then bad. That's how mine was, I'm sure yours wont be too long since you caught it so young!

Good work and good progress! Keep it up!

 

fugu

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It's great to have you hear yellowbrickroad! While it's shocking to hear porn induced-ED cropping up in people as young as your age, I have no doubts that's it's possible...and it's probably becoming increasingly more common. It's amazing that you found out about this now man. For real. You have the ability to save yourself a lot of pain and a lot of time by tackling this early.

The best advice I can give is to just keep going. Grind everyday out, and don't look back. Maybe pick up a couple new positive activities like working out or an instrument. And if you need help and support, come here. :)
 

Fappy

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Lucky you got onto it early mate! When i was 15 i spent most of my time in toilets with cum stained magazines rubbing myself red-raw. Got caught by a teacher and sent to the counsellor three times. Fix yourself now! Give yourself a normally functioning sexual future!
 

Marko7776

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Know how you feel!! I'm 16 and have PIED too, its not that bad tho, but still

and i think that if you fantasize it will set you back
 
Honestly I can say I'm fully recovered (no ED issues, no DE, relatively normal sexual function) but it wouldn't really be true. Even now every month I go everything seems to get better and better, so who knows how high i will go? Not sure if that's a good way of phrasing it but cant think of anything better.

One thing however, i still get insane porn cravings that are extremely difficult to beat. You are young catching this so hopefully these wont be as bad for you, but definitely cant go back to porn! Will undo all your hard work.

If you have any more questions feel free to ask! Wish you the best.
 
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