Fear triggers me more than arousal

it was a coping method for stress and loneliness during grad school. broke a 2 year clean streak and really fell into a deep pit. now God is leading me out.

Take a deep breath brother, deep breaths, hold for 5 second and let it out and continue, use the 3-3-3 or 5-5-5 method if need be. We all goin through it man I was once in service when the last time this happened, this is nothing don’t worried about it, things will calm down and everything will come back to the norm again. Sometimes we worry about the world more then we worry about ourselves, let’s reel it back in and think about ourselves, like your doing here trying to better yourself like all of us. It’s not selfish it’s what’s real. You got this man porn is not ganna fix it it’s ganna make everything worse, remember deep breaths watch a movie take our mind off of it, avoid porn and everything will be all good bro.

I developed it as coping for many different reasons, especially sadness. Man what a terrible circle of events that was. It’s bliss on this side of the fence. I know I have it marked as 6 days but I’ve been going the PMO route so I reset even if I jerk without porn, but using porn back a few years ago as a cope for sadness broke me man. I pray for you and your battle

Stress does the same for me, so much high cortisol from watching bad news on social media makes me want to recluse and strike the dopamine button. Stay strong dude, this too shall pass.