Health benefits of No Fap No Porn

Thank you so much @ThorB4 for taking your time to reply to my post. I really appreciate you letting your heart out here. Just know that we are seeing your progress and we are cheering for you. I am really sorry to hear about your struggles since childhood and but just like rest of us, the only thing to look forward to is a bright future with our family’s. I totally agree with your point of improved efficiency and focus. The point your stated “God using you to help someone else” is going on my motivation board. Thank you for helping a fellow commrade!

I appreciate reading your reply Thor

I’m 44 days in now. TBH, I’m not a completely fap free person because of complicated stuff with my wife, but I only “rock the Casbah” rarely now, instead of frequently with porn as I did before starting this freedom journey. I’ve noticed a few health changes: - I don’t need near as many pain meds. I needed pain patches, creams, opioids, four other types of pain killers at max dosages just to function—sometimes just to tolerate sitting in my recliner or laying down in bed all day. I’ve had days where I’ve been out doing things for people, driving, going places for 10 hours in the past 2-3 weeks! I even groomed one of my golden doodles from start to finish today—I’ve had that take three weeks before! - Mentally I’m sharper! Just a couple months ago, I was trying to figure out how to get a full time helper. I couldn’t drive safely, and I couldn’t even fill out a basic name & address form on my laptop—my mind just wouldn’t focus that well out that long, and my brain couldn’t make my hands type the right keys to enter things correctly. But this week, after 6 weeks of porn and mostly fap freedom, I was able to do 5 tax returns for 6 people—with a lot of complicated stuff for self-employment and business deductions, stock purchases & sales, a time share sale that was reported even though I never legally owned it, dependent status changes, multiple job changes, I couldn’t begin to tell you the really complicated stuff—but I did all that in a week with my laptop, two phones, a calculator and a file folder for notes. Before I started this porn freedom, I couldn’t enter my name and address! - emotional stress! I am a Navy submarine veteran with PTSD, depression, anxiety, and all those fun things’ friends. At the start of this porn free journey, I was needing to go inpatient from uncontrollable suicidal thoughts and overwhelming pressure to act on them. I had to get help—NEVER HESITATE TO GET HELP!! Now, 44 days into freedom, I’m free from the constant thoughts of death and I’m not hung up on the negative thoughts about myself nearly as bad anymore!—that goes back to my early childhood when my mom ran off to India to join a commune and my dad married my “wicked” stepmother with her two perfect stepsons and I became “cinderfella” who could never do anything right and was blamed for everything. I was convinced I was as I was told so often, good for nothing, would never amount to anything, worthless, just a pain in everyone’s ass. But this freedom is giving me healing from even 50+ years of that negativity! And this app lets me help others, and thank God for that. I’ll always have worth when God uses me to help someone else. - my privates are healing! I had porn ED. But when I do fap, I can stay hard and finish successfully…a rare occurrence even with porn before. And I do not allow my mind to go there-to things I saw in porn or to things I saw in real people that mimic what I saw in porn or soft porn. That junk is gone and I’m not letting it back in any way. Sorry, I use too many words. I’m old. But you asked! Stick with this, and heal in all the many ways you will heal! My relationship with God and my wife are the best healings of all! Life is so much sweeter, worth living now!