70 days!!

21zo

Member
Today is 70 days and it has been a roller coster ride so far.  About 30 days in I was feeling on top of the world, as I have said in some previous posts.  I was significantly more social than usual, no anxiety and zero depression but that feeling did fade.  I had about a week of morning errections and feeling horny with out any artificial stimuli but that has also passed and believe that I have now been in a flatline for about 2 weeks.  I hungout with a girl about 2 weeks ago and we did not go any further than making out but just the kissing was enough to give me about a 60-75% hard on so that was a bit of a relief for me and helped calm my nerves a little that she did not want to go any further than that.  Although I am not there physically yet I think I am making some strides mentally.  I am begining to realise my triggers and why I was so addicted in the first place and I think i comes down to simply being lonely.  Everytime I would ever get horny I would just open up my laptop or lookup porn on my phone jerk off then be relieved when in reality instead of watching porn I should have been talking to girls and trying to hangout with them.  Porn was just a lot easier and a lot less work.  But now that I have cut it out of my life I realise just how lonely I am.  Like after a long night out at the bars with my friends and coming home with no girl, this is usually the time I would open up my laptop or phone and watch porn but now that porn is not an option I realise that I was just watching it to cover up for the fact that I was all alone.  I think this realization has made me a little more out going and pursuing of real relationships with girls and also my fiends.  I am not really just sitting around on my ass anymore waiting for good things to come my way, its never going to happen.  So to sum up my 70 days besides for a couple weeks in the beginning I would say I have made more mental progress than physical. I am not going to do another update until my 100 day mark unless something significant happens ;)
 

Jz15

Member
Very inspiring dude I hope for the best with you and her I hope you enjoy her and she enjoys you as well.

Ive also got a girl in mind now that Ive quit porn but im not as recovered as you still at day 6 although it seems to be quite fast recovery. My 41 days clean I did before must have surely contributed to that though

Best of Luck my friend
 

21zo

Member
Jz15 said:
Very inspiring dude I hope for the best with you and her I hope you enjoy her and she enjoys you as well.

Ive also got a girl in mind now that Ive quit porn but im not as recovered as you still at day 6 although it seems to be quite fast recovery. My 41 days clean I did before must have surely contributed to that though

Best of Luck my friend

Appreciate the reply! I have come to find that it gets easier as time goes on, Im up most nights in my room watching Netflix on my laptop and if I wanted to watch p I could easily slip up but its not even a thought anymore my self control has been great and p really has no interest to me.  Now its just the healing process of the brain I am waiting on.  Really hoping that this struggle is all behind me by summer time. 
 
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