This is not an easy thing to admit, but I do it willingly. Â I’m addicted to pornography and masturbation. It’s starting to take its toll, 10+ years of masturbation and about 5+ years of pornography. It leaves me extremely depressed and I constantly revisit my addiction to get the temporary rush. I feel more lonely afterwords each time. I don’t like dating because I feel insecure and unworthy. I don’t feel good enough to be with anyone, I fell like I tear people down and suck them into my sadness. I’ve always been different and people notice. I honestly try to be kind and friendly but that usually leads to people using me. Is anyone else struggling with these addictions, if so how do you cope?
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You need to first stop whining. If you’re addicted to porn, it’s not going to be easy to get out of it, but the important thing is to keep trying to quit. You might get back into it, but that should be expected. You need to have a plan on what to do with your life… It’s scary but you can do it.
yeah, the same. And now, I’m still 16. Feeling like a girl with so much sin. Im solitude, and I like being lonely. I’m just trying to get closer with God. Lonely, just me and God. I know, God does exist and will help me get out from that suck thing
I hear you, man–especially about the feeling insecure and unworthy. I thought you put it very well: “I feel like I tear people down and suck them into my sadness.” If you want to talk about it, I’m game.
Hey, dman5505, I don’t mean to be a d*ck, but “You need to first stop whining”–really? I thought this forum was a place for people to feel safe divulging what they’re struggling with. I don’t think InTheEnd is “whining.” He said it’s not easy to admit. It takes guts to be honest about our struggles–and we all have them. How about some explicit step-by-step advice, if you have it? Otherwise, I don’t think telling someone who’s being vulnerable about an admitted life struggle he’s “whining” is at all productive.
I think I may have been addicted to porn once. For me it was the drugs that I was doing that made it worse. I stopped the drugs and after that was able to give up the porn. I put filters on all my electronic equipment so there is a barrier between me and porn. I have typed “big natural boobs” in my browser many times and then realized what I was doing when the filter blocked it. For me that has been just enough to keep me off the porn.
They say it takes 30 days to start a new habit… maybe it takes 30 days to stop and old one as well though.
For me, understanding without a doubt that porn addiction is enslavement by demonic forces is enough to keep me away… And like I said, the filters add an extra layer of protection.
To sum it up, don’t bite the bait.
Healing, what were the effects of porn addiction for you? How did it impact other aspects of your life?
I’ve dealt with this before…now I haven’t watched as much porn as you but I’m able to control myself… I can watch hours of porn and still fuck a woman perfectly…the key is in not ejaculating…. You can jack off all day but just hold the trigger…once you’ve shot enough you’ll know the stroke count…
I imagine you’re insecure because you’re impotent correct?… Well they have Viagra and if you are able to stop for 6 months you’ll see recovery…
Masturbating excessively does have its drawbacks… It can fuck with memory and other things too… We get addicted to the chemical rush…not so much the porn itself but when you ejaculate you get a rush of pleasurable chemicals….
Actually tbh…. Porn was the only thing keeping me alive for a while…. Once you see Carmella bing fucked in the ass … You kinda have another “head” telling you it wants to live… Thank you Carmella…