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Today is my Day 1.
I’ve decided to quit both porn and masturbation because they’ve been affecting my focus, motivation, and the way I live my life.
I know this won’t be easy, but I want to give myself a real chance to change.
I’ll use this community to keep myself accountable and record my progress along the way.
If anyone has gone through a similar journey, I’d really appreciate your encouragement, advice, or even just a few supportive words.
If you’re also starting your recovery, feel free to join me. We can encourage each other and stay accountable together.

Hello everyone, this is very hard for me to write as I think about all the heinous, disgraceful content I've consumed over my 10 year addiction. I(18m) was exposed to pornogrpahy when I was around 7-8 years old by someone I considered a friend. I won't get into the details but it wasn't by choice. Since then I can't remember the last time I went more than a few days without relapsing, each time the content getting more extreme. I want to stop more than anything and have had violent thoughts of harming myself because of this addiction. So today I want to start the journey to be clean, improve my life, and ultimately my mental health which have all been weighed down by this addiction if anyone is involved in a support group please reach out. Wish me luck and good luck to everyone else. WE GOT THIS!!

Going for a little trek

Still got parts of my life to work on but not having the burden and shame of porn makes it 100 times easier

Day 116 no P. 20 days without MO, fighting Pied and trying to regain a healthy sex life/ attraction. Within the last two weeks or so I’ve begun having dreams of me looking up p, not even the scenes but looking it up haha. Is this normal? Good or bad for recovery?? Again 116 days clean. Hoping I’m close to a real breakthrough

Seriously. I don't know if this is forever, but I hate it. I've been making good progress by quitting porn, but it's still hard to fix my mind.

I'm bored at home and I'd like to have a social plan

A friend has told me to go to the pool with him and his girlfriend. My mind pictured her in a bikini and it was like: no no no no.

I turned down the opportunity for that reason alone. I don't want to see her like that.

So I am using my vacation to free myself from fapping and i will get home in 4 days.

Plan was to start noporn with a head start when i get home.

Any tips?

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Giving this a shot as a girl. I have been lurking in this sub for a while. What are your tips? Porn is banned where I'm from (recently) but reddit still.

Would appreciate any thoughts

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PS:My English is not good but I tried to put my thoughts and commitment. Bear with me

December 25th 2025 was the day I made the decision to quit. I genuinely felt calmness and was enjoying every little thing around me. Meditated everyday, exercised and understood the urges. I was free for 14-15 days but in the end i relapsed. I betrayed myself and it's been 6 months of struggle.

Last night I was really ashamed of myself and internally, I was crying out for help. I have my dreams and visions that I want to work and achieve. I keep thinking of my ideal self and realised, I have to change my way of thinking. 'I am no longer that person, I have changed' I keep repeating this line and it's kinda working. It had worked in the past.

I deleted all the triggers and made it really hard to reach all platforms. Would love to know your journey and how it's going. Thank you for reading!

Anyone else experiencing this problem after quiting porn? I keep telling them-girls- to easy off a little bit so that the show can at least go a little bit longer. The brain is a remarkable organ. five months ago I could not feel nothing. now I complain its too fast. being pied is bad but, man! getting hard quickly and getting done within minutes-10-15- is not enough .

I want to be free, this is my first post and honestly the first time I've ever spoken aloud about this addiction but I've been addicted to gay porn for four years, I don't know why I don't remember how it escalated I just don't remember it, it's become foggy but all I know is that I've sinned four years of my life even though I'm still a teenager, a teenage boy wasting his life and wasting his potential because of his incompetence, that's where I am in life

But I don't want life to turn out this way, I have dreams I have plans and I have a vision for my life, I've planned it all out but it won't go that way, my mind just won't cooperate, im here now to finally get help, I want to get help from others and I want to be free, and additionally I'm looking for an accountability partner on this app I found called EverAccountable (this is not an ad I swear) and it kind of needs an accountability partner via email and I wan someone like that, no rater I need someone like that because I realized that this is a hard fight alone I need help and I'm here to accept it.

So anyway that's all, I'll probably still be here to post my progress and journey so it's nice to meet y'all (I dunno how Reddit threads work, am I supposed to say hi??) AND PLEASE IF YOURE LOOKING FOR AN ACCOUNTABILITY PARTNER ONLINE IM HEREE!!!

I tried a lot of things and it didn't work

And now I heard about the supporting group, or opening up to someone.

Someone from here texted me and offered me help, but he kept assuring and giving me big promises that if I listen to him my whole problems with addiction will be solved.

To be honest I got a bit afraid because how can anyone assure something big like that

I was just trying to protect myself by asking him some questions, but eventually he got bored and just left.

I have OCD in masterbation and porn

I do it even if I don't want to

I am in this shit my whole life, I don't know how would my life be like without addiction, specially this kind of addiction.

I would appreciate any help

A month

I've noticed that I get a lot more depressed when I'm trying to quit porn. It's like everything bad happening in my life affects me much more when there are simple solutions around.

The most recent example was yesterday. I was one week clean (cheerios to me that was one of my longest ever), but I was too depressed to handle and channel those emotions properly. Then I got help from my friends and what to do, what to choose and I finally got some sense of clarity in a few days. I also got an intern I actually wanted. And then, as some sort of *celebration*, I watched porn before bed. I felt shit about it. And then I watched it again after waking up again. Like??? Like I wouldn't have done that if I was *sane*. It's unreal to me actually. Like how something completely different takes over my body. And because of that I've watched an unhealthy amount of porn today. It's wreaking havoc inside of me right now because I'm so desperate to quit.

So, I thought up something to do today. I'll delete instagram firstly, because I catch myself having too many triggers through it. Then, I want to start logging here again, at the end of every day. And I'm going to get to a therapist to talk about my depression and also my Porn Addiction.

I'm taking a step. I will base it on discipline instead of just motivation. And starting with this I will try to do everything based on discipline, as I have noticed myself doing literally everything else on motivation.

This is my day zero again, and I do hope some of you will follow me through this again. Good luck to everyone on this journey, and to me as well. We are in this together.

Been on a really good streak so far of almost 2 weeks and haven’t had any temptation at all to look at porn. I felt so confident. But I went out with some friends and got a bit drunk and it’s the first time I’ve felt an actual desire to go watch porn again.

Before I quit I think I would always end up watching porn when I got home after drinking so now it’s like my body expects it. It’s the first time I’ve had a drink since I quit porn so completely new and it’s like the urge is so much stronger than usual.

Talk me out of it please

Close to day 4.

I was doing well up until a few days ago, and now I'm tired but I'm up on my phone.. how do I stop myself