Hello fapstonauts I would like to share with you some of the improvements i have seen in myself since starting nofap 26 days ago. I'm actually shocked at how well i seem to be doing. First off and this is the biggest one. My social anxiety and depression have been reduced a lot. I have suffered from this for many years and at its worse it got to the point where i never wanted to leave the house. I'm still nowhere near free from this anxiety but i can tell you there have been big improvements. I feel like i can enjoy life more because of this. I seem to have a clearer mind. I'm connecting with people better because i'm not always trying to think what to say next. Conversation seems to be coming easier to me now. In turn this gives me more confidence when meeting people or being around my friends. My drug use has been massively reduced. I've had issues with many kind of drugs since i was 19. I am 23 now and realize i cant carry on using drugs forever. I beat addiction to Benzos a couple of years back and i was a really heavy daily user so that chapter of my life was hell. Then not so long ago i picked up a daily kratom habit. my dosage was just going up and up until i started NoFap. The last couple of weeks i have only got high four or five times which is remarkably better than every evening. I've have seen improvements in the gym. Ive been pushing myself harder since starting nofap and have managed to add more weight to the bar in every lift i do. About 6 months back i was 155lbs at 6ft 1. I'm now nearly 180lbs with low body fat. I think with the help of nofap i should be seeing some more gains fairly quickly. I've also started to meditate daily. If my day at work was shit 20 mins of meditation seems to help calm the mind. Im not to sure how much impact this is having on me but i will continue as i think this is something you have to practice at to really see the effects. Sadly i have PIED and haven't really seen any improvement here yet. I believe where i was pmo ing daily for 10 years from an early age this might take a while to resolve. On the whole i feel much better than before nofap. I'm nowhere near as depressed and really do believe i am on the right path to recovery. I hope this might help some of you out ther who are just starting your nofap journey. Stay strong people and there is hope of a better life.
Thanks people. I have had a couple of relapses recently but I'm still committed to this. I've learnt that the mind can easily trick you into your old bad habits if your not carefull. Still I'm positive and am still seeing improvements in my mental and physical health. Good luck and stay stong
Great story man!! Keep up the good work! I have also learned that addiction and PMO go hand in hand. PIED can be caused by a lot of things (bad diet, PMO, or even drug use). I would continue with your journey to your goals with abstaining from PMO! I know that medications taken abusively can have severe side affects, I would try to address that issue as well dude. This whole journey is about being in a good place mentally, and drug addiction can be extremely hard to cope with and abstaining from PMO can be even harder!! Keep your head up kid! You're doing great! Everyday without relapsing and less drugs is always a positive!! *Baby Steps before you can run* EOA
Cheers bro. I now have the right positive attitude to turn my life around now but it's so so hard. Before I was just in the dark about the whole thing. I felt like crap all the time but didn't feel like getting my self out of the shitty life I had created. Now I want to change and am going to battle all the way until I do. I slip up all the time with my drug use but at least I'm confronting it now. I've had a small taste of the better life I could be living and I'm determined to make it happen.
