No PMO War XV

I'm definitely not feeling strong today. I started a little before the war and usually, the first few days are "easy" because my dopamine receptors are cooked. Then eventually I have stronger urges. If I recall correctly, while there is some variation strong urges usually hit around end of week 1 or early week 2 while the flatline hits shortly after that. Not looking forward to that, flatline is where I failed last time, but at least I can stay focused for it. For strong urges I usually find other things to enjoy in my day - writing, exercise, etc. Anyone have any good tricks for the flatline, where everything is (temporarily) gray?

In my own journey on becoming PMO-free, I have found that these micro-compromises are the most dangerous. Very rarely do I have a sudden urge to watch porn. In my case, I will “out of the blue“ suddenly start having a sexual fantasy. At first, it seems rather harmless, but if I let myself go with it, it can lead to strong arousal and then to edging, etc. Today I caught myself two different times starting to have a fantasy which I then quickly stopped in its tracks. I would be curious if other brothers have a similar experience.

My friend was a drug junkie for years. He grew up in a single mother home in the 80s, became addicted to hardcore drugs (heroine, marijuana, others) and sex in high school. He was always a devout church-goer however, it's just what he knew to do because his mother always forced him to go. His mother decided to move very far away when he was 18 and he crashed his car and flew right through the wind shield. He relocated to California and got into more drugs and his life went downhill. His lowest point was when he was driving on heroine and crashed his car, he ended up killing somebody. It actually ended up being a coworker (or someone related I believe) to his mom. Still this whole time he went to church every weekend, because his mom wanted him to. I believe God intervened, he only get house arrest plus a few thousand hours of community service. He should've gotten years or even life in prison. Somehow he ended up where he is now, met his now-wife who was a smoker but nothing crazy, but got her on heroine and other things. He started taking her to church too with his mom every weekend. Go to church on Sunday morning, shoot up h Sunday evening. The pastor pulled them aside, "I know something isn't right with you two." Despite their drug use they were relatively successful, but they both desperately wanted to be clean. The pastor worked with them and got them into therapy to get them clean, and, although it took years, they finally got clean around 2015~ish. His wife stayed clean, but my friend had a fall. While she was away on a biz trip, he got back into h, and overdosed and fell outside. Something happened and he chopped his finger off (he still only has 4 fingers). God intervened, and sent some random person in his neighborhood just to randomly check on him. They called the ambulance not a minute too late, he would've died otherwise. The same pastor visited him in the hospital, "looks like you need to be in church every single day". That was 2017. My same friend still, daily, goes to church every single day at 4 AM and prays for 2 hours. He has been clean since and is now completely turned around. He and his wife have an amazing child now, are restored, homeowners, and he is the reason I decided to get clean of all of my problems. I met him at a Celebrate Recovery (like Narcotics Anonymous but very Christian) because I had problems with LSD-induced trauma and wanted to quit porn too. I write this story to inspire you guys. If He can do it for my friend, He can do it for you too. Go all in for God, give Him everything you got. Every atom in your body. You won't be disappointed.

I am about to take a very important test - this test decides whether or not I do or don't get my degree. I need a near-perfect score. Please pray for me that the favor of Christ be upon me

We’ve lost over half in three days. This war isn’t easy. Stay strong 💪🏽

Just a quick meme for today - don’t let Yourself be him today and have to call Yourself a little b*tch like this haha

Want to create this thread for brothers to post some strategies for blocking sites that have worked for them. Relying less on willpower and eliminating the option altogether works better for some people, including myself. For example, a close friend of mine has the password to my screen time app in iPhone, which is set to block all p0rn sites and other triggers, so that takes willpower right out of the equation. If I ever needed to turn it off, he has the code Would love to hear similar solutions to laptops and non-Apple tablets as ideally all my devices could be locked down by an outside person.

Hello guys, how are you doing? I decided to quit porn, the worst problem was too much time spent on it and losing self-image. It was kinda 2 people in one body, one wants to achieve, live life to the fullest, learn new things and the second one wants to fulfil dark fantasies and animalistic desires. It's hard to trust someone with 2 faces that change at random days.

Let’s all finally say goodbye to fapping boys, it’s been with us far too long, it’s time to let it go and see what life really is. We won’t know our true potential until we clear our brain fogged minds. And we should all be grateful that we made it the first day, little gratifications like thatgoes a long way. I believe in all of you, it’s now time for you all to fight the urges and believe in yourselves!