Before I downloaded this app, I was watching porn every day, jacking off at least once a day too. This app has definitely helped me with my self control, as now I’ve limited myself to once or twice a week. Obviously the long term goal is to quit altogether, so fellas I ask how yall distract yourselfs from the temptation to relapse? Because I feel good for a few days, then ultimately fall back into it. How do yall have self control?
We have it because it goes against what god desires
Thanks junior that helps a lot
Long message below, sorry in advance: Think of it less as distracting yourself and more reprogramming yourself. Look into the experiments Pavlov did with his dogs. He conditioned them to associate the dinging of a bell with getting a treat so whenever they heard a bell ding their mouths would salivate. Even if those dogs were put on an island with no bell for years, if Pavlov brought them back and rang his bell their mouths would salivate. This is porn’s effect on us. We have to reprogram our brains to no longer salivate (masturbate and consume porn) when we hear the bell (triggers that make us want to use porn). You need to identify those triggers, understand those feelings, sit with them, and slowly but surely you will no longer salivate when that bell rings. I have been journaling and talking to myself (looks crazy, but works for me) whenever I get an urge. I try to figure out why I’m getting that urge and sit there with those feeling until it goes away. At the end of that I determine a trigger and a reason that it makes me want to use porn. Do that enough times and you’ll be golden.
You got this bro
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