Anyone here ever managed to overcome an addiction?

Anyone here ever managed to overcome an addiction?

I'm suffering from vidya and porn addiction and struggling hard to break free
At best I manage 2 weeks without, then I relapse and hit it hard

What's the secret?

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I had the same problem. I pretty much quit overnight when I met my gf

Secret is finding something else to occupy your time. Being social is the best replacement, but not always possible. Try reading books. It occupies lots of time and helps take your mind somewhere else.

Some of you guys on this board man... It's like a fucking autism convention in here.

No, you're not "addicted." Overcoming cigarettes is an addiction. Overcoming alcohol addiction is an addiction. Overcoming heroin addiction is an addiction. The difference here is that your body is actually physically dependent on these things and you'll go through withdrawal without them. That doesn't happen from porn.

Also I hold a degree in psychology, so don't even start with that "psychological addiction" shit. It's just loser talk for "I have no self control."

You have a few options:

1. Man up and just don't do it if it's so abd.
2. Continue to watch it because it doesn't really make a difference. It doesn't lower T levels, it doesn't make it harder for you to work out, it doesn't destroy your penis, and there's no evidence it makes you into a scat loving freak.
3. Just don't have the internet in your house.

But this whole "I'm a victim of my own lack of self control and it's an addiction" thing is stupid. Own up to your own behavior

Found the fapper
How does it feel watching dudes bang females while you are jerking your manhood off? Fucking cu-ck.

I date all time, bitch. In fact, I've been slowing it down lately so I can focus on me. It's not hard meeting girls. Also, Just because I have a degree in psychology and know bullshit when I see it doesn't mean I'm a "cuck" (seriously that's retarded).

Have fun struggling with your own self control and blaming the world. You are literally the most cowardly and pathetic kind of person.

everything you said about fappers equally applies to other "addictions" you mentioned. why you're singling fapping out as separate and easy and smoking not so, is not clear.
>hurr durr physical widthrawls darrrrp
okay, stopping fapping also has physical affects so they're identical. the same difficulty exists in stopping any of these bad habits once they've started and become normal. it takes time and a concerted effort and a real desire to reform.

it's true they're all self-inflicted, as you say, and it's true all you need is will power to cure it. but that doesn't make it an easy task and many are too fall down the path of desolation to turn around after years smoking, drinking, or fapping their better intentions away

Veeky Forumsizens, I need your advice as well on a rather strange addiction of me. It just so happens to be that I'm kinda addicted to massively scratch the skin between my ass and my anus, to a lesser extent my anus as well. This has been going on for years now, and you can really see a patch of that skin has kinda deformed due to the scar tissue after prolonged scratching... I can usually manage to stay away from scratching during the day, but I can't control it at night. I even tried taping my pyjama pants to my skin so I couldn't reach it, and still I peel my way through to scratch it. I had a couple of times I somehow managed to stay off of it for a few days and the effect is huge, it almost looks like nothing ever happened there. Still, any way to stop my hands from going there at night? Really been thinking about cuffing myself at night...

Honestly only on the internet you got dudes talking about nofap and stopping to watch porn. And I bet most of these guys are some true basement dwellers and weaboos.

In real life, everybody faps to porn. Stopping watching porn won't make you more popular,cooler, have more energy,etc. if you want to be successfull and cool like chad or normal like all others stop trying to do what nobody that is better that you does not.

Fkn hell

This OP samefag bullshit is so profoundly ignorant and incorrect that I don't even know where to start.

>everything you said about fappers equally applies to other "addictions" you mentioned

No, it fucking doesn't. If an alcoholic stops drinking alcohol and tries it again, his body will go into withdrawal and he will fucking die. The same thing is the case for heroin, which is why there are methadone clinics.

Nicotine isn't as harmful as the aforementioned, but the thing is that your body is physically dependent on them. If you stop masturbating, you're not going to go through "Withdrawal." Your body might have slight differences, but they're not anything serious and they won't last more than two or three days because it's not a real fucking physical addiction. It's you being a low-T betamale bitch who can't control his behavior and needs to invent this stupid excuse based on junk science to rationalize why you fail.

>why you're singling fapping out as separate and easy and smoking not so, is not clear

Because you're a stupid fuck who doesn't understand the difference between a physical addiction and lacking self-discipline.

Moreover, there's no scientific evidence for any of your claims. In fact, the only evidence on any of this suggests that masturbation is good for you. Zimbardo is anti-porn, but he hasn't produced any research that it's bad for you, causes ED, makes you into a pedophile, or whatever else this crazy fundamentalist christian logic pushes people to believe. Unlike smoking, drinking, or shooting shit into your fucking veins, masturbation isn't bad for you so there's no addiction. Human beings are biologically predisposed to have sex and masturbate. There's ultrasounds of fetuses masturbating in utero.

It's natural. Fucking deal with it. Get your facts straight, read a textbook, and stop scapegoating the world for the fact that you're a pathetic piece of shit.

Fucking this.

ESPECIALLY fucking this.

Grow up OP

fapping has numerous obvious and harmful effects only idiots would say fapping isn't a detriment to health

your readdit credential boasting didn't really impress me desu
all addictions, including food and pornography addiction have the same driving mechanism behind them that involves neuroplasticity and dopamine
sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627300810569
go read something degree holder

alcoholics wont die if they start drinking again, you're full of shit right off the bat it's not even worth reading the rest if your first sentence is a lie

Alcohol withdrawals can be fatal even in healthy people. It's one of very few kinds of withdrawals that can be fatal along with benzodiazipines and barbiturates. And other gabaergenic drugs.

It's not starting doing them again that *might* kill you it's stopping cold turkey

Oh man, same same if you are being seirous.

My problem is if I scratch anywhere on my body for too long, it'll develop and itchy patch. Or if I use certain soaps, detergent, touch something, I can have a tiny breakout. Once I had an issue where it was on my legs and taint. I just started scratching or rubbing and then it was just self-reinforcing and goes on forever from there until I stop scratching.

I managed to stop scratching my legs by just putting on bandaids on the spot. Once I stopped scratching for enough time 1-7 days, it completely healed and was no longer itchy.

The taint has been a whole other issue. The only thing that managed to work was using different moisturizers and creams to get the skin there healed and the itching to stop.

Once its itchy there, you're going to be scratching it not just at night but also in your sleep. I actually doubled up on underwear so even if I scratched while sleeping it would do less damage. Then after showering/bathing, moisturize my body but mainly my taint.

It will take most likely a few attempts of doing that over months to get it to finally stop. Then you just have to make sure you never start the itch/scratch cycle again.

Samefag (OP)


> your readdit credential boasting didn't really impress me desu

Of course it doesn't. You rely on unscholarly mumbo jumbo bullshit into believing in this unscientific boogeyman that playing with yourself is medical problem. That's why you posted one article (which doesn't work, by the way) from a dubious source which doesn't even prove your point.

>all addictions, including food and pornography addiction have the same driving mechanism behind them that involves neuroplasticity and dopamine

No, this is incredibly wrong, but I'm wasting my time trying to correct you. Believe whatever you want retard.

Also,

>alcoholics wont die if they start drinking again, you're full of shit right off the bat it's not even worth reading the rest if your first sentence is a lie

Just like fapping, right?

this guy is a moron

>proven to have decreased release of dopamine from ventral tagmental area to nucleus accumbens while having down regulated dopamine receptors.
>same eeg firing patterns, increase and decrease in different areas of the brain similar to drug addiction.

Found the person holding a useless degree from Internet college. Have fun fapping to laggy cuck porn as you stream off free Starbucks wifi while on your break, barista.

can you elaborate on the neuroplasticity/dopamine thing?
curious

>Anyone here ever managed to overcome an addiction?
kinda
>I'm suffering from vidya and porn addiction and struggling hard to break free
Had the same issues
>What's the secret?
for vidya: Get a job and grow up. Plus, modern games are mostly boring graphics demos anyways, and then I am even expected to pay for that shit? No, thanks.
for porn: Get a gf

Shut up OP and stop samefagging. Also, stop projecting your lack of self control on the rest of us. Plenty of people live totally well adjusted lives and don't need to rely on pixellated affection. If you ever touched a real girl you wouldn't be struggling with this "addiction" so trying to talk down to me about it is doubly laughable.

But please, feel free to continue to make an ass out of yourself on the internet.

There's nothing to it. OP relies on junk science to rationalize fantasies. He isn't even using the term neuroplasticity correctly.

But I guess that's just my internet made up useless college degree talking.

the way this guy posts smacks of someone who is paid to post here

is this pasta????

desu the only bad thing fapping has done to me is that ive become desensitized to normal porn and have spiralled into the depths of really weird shit

....what?

Paid by who?

secret is to fuck a hoe everyday in a nasty way. just--- DO IT!

Opiates (oxys, poppy seed tea, then heroin)
>used it to treat panic attacks
>had staph infection that nearly killed me, brush with death stopped panic attacks, no longer saw point in using, quit once I got out of hospital for staph infection
Cigarettes
>started using when I was doing opiates because I was bored/liked the aesthetics
>stopped cold turkey a few months ago because I hated being out of breath
Couple other minor drug problems that I wouldn't classify as addictions.

Two keys to stopping addiction imo:
>eliminate the thing that causes you to use in the first place (anxiety, boredom, etc.) if you can
>fucking willpower

>started using when I was doing opiates because I was bored/liked the aesthetics

You started smoking because you thought it looked cool? Wow, addicts really are the most weak minded and pathetic people on the planet.

no shit why beat a man when he's down?

Sure OP I used to be a polysubstance abuser and alcoholic. I did a lot of just about everything. I've been sober 18 months now. It's kind of hard for me to draw a parallel to your experience so I'll just tell you some of the things that were a big part of me kicking it for long term.

>avoid trouble spots early on - for me this was not hanging out with certain people or in certain places. It may be the same for you - maybe try staying away from sites that encourage you to relapse (I'm certain Veeky Forums is one of them)

>have a plan for cravings/urges - for me I ate something sweet and the urge passed after 5 minutes or so. Find something you can do instead of playing video games or watching porn when that desire comes up. If you're really on the edge, think about how you'll feel after you relapse again. That will probably be enough to stop you.

>don't let yourself be idle early on. If you don't have things to do, you will inevitably think about porn or video games. Instead stay occupied with something else like lifting or running or reading or watching TV or cooking or whatever you have even a passing interest in.

>Above everything, be resilient. The first few months are the hardest. If you're serious about kicking it, you will not relapse no matter how badly you want to or how you feel. In exchange, after a few months of abstinence, the urges will stop and your brain will slowly return to normalcy (emphasis on slowly. It took me at least 6 months to not want to kill myself, but my withdrawals were very different from what you will experience)

Finally make sure you have someone you can talk to. A therapist or even a friend will save you if you tell them what you're doing and call them before you relapse. A phone call when I was struggling kept me sane many times and even still is one of the biggest contributors to my sobriety.

Good luck user if you're serious about recovery then you can do it.

If you have what I have, it's likely eczema and it gets worse in the summer. My doctor prescribed mometasone ointment, a corticosteroid. Whenever it starts I start treatment. In 3-4 days it goes away and usually stays gone for months. When it comes back I use it again.

Go to the doctor, because I dont know if it's eczema or not, and you'll need to get the prescription too.

I used to scratch is raw like a Motherfucker for years, until finally getting some medicine. Nice to live in the 21st century sometimes.

My secret is Jesus Christ! He came into my life. SRS. I haven't masturbated in years.

well soda I guess, I used to drank 2-4 a day, but I just stopped and started drinking more water which I need anyways because of the creatine and caffeine

replace this addiction with another, something more positive and beneficial to your life.

I'm a heroin addict and jesus thinks you're a fucking retard

I tried giving up porn and caffeine once after bout five days I felt like death my body chemistry was so out of sync

Huh, if it were so easy then why is it an addiction?

You're just nervous because your only real sexual partern has been your hand. Go expose yourself to failure, it's not terrible.