Experience, not childhood or genes, configures individual reward-circuit wiring “Intriguingly, the pleasure centre and the behaviour it guides are sculpted mostly by life experiences rather than by our genes. This challenges previous assumptions that dopamine function could be straightforwardly inherited.” —Paul Stokes, MD, PhD Our reward center (or circuitry) is shaped primarily by experience. This […]
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I’m 27 years old and you should consider my fap story as a worst case. It has taken 115 days to get rid of my addiction. Here is a small story and some tips which helped me. I started with nofap-september, found a GF at about 75 day. We jumped in bed on 2nd date […]
Read More… from Age 27 – ED cured: 115 days, but I jumpstarted with Levitra
by Jeffrey Schwartz, a medical doctor who treats OCD. He’s mentioned in The Brain That Changes Itself, and his work is right in line with what is being discovered about brain plasticity by neuroscientists (including himself). He’s also intrigued by Buddhist principles. Here’s what a forum member said about this book: It’s excellent. It is […]
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This Needs To Be Said, Understood, & Reaffirmed …relax… There is a great deal of over-analysis and obsessive worry on the tiniest of minutia by a good deal of people recovering. Most of it coming from the new guys. I’m not harping on you because to a degree this is natural, you’re new to this […]
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Porn-related HOCD may call for its own treatment protocol Intrusive worries that someone has become gay—although he (she) has been straight for years with no doubts—have gained the label HOCD, homosexual obsessive-compulsive disorder. More properly such worries would be called sexual orientation obsessive-compulsive disorder because they also strike gay people who suddenly wonder if they […]
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Hi nofapers, I’ve been reading around here for a while now and I just created my account to let you all know that yesterday I reached the 90 days of nofap. And my plan was to reward myself in getting a real girl. And so I did. Yesterday I had PIV and man, I was […]
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Pornography and Adolescents studies are listed below this introduction. An (L) in front of the link indicates a lay article, usually about a study. These relevant articles & videos by YBOP may be of interest: Why Shouldn’t Johnny Watch Porn If He Likes? First Sex: Just The Science Please Young Porn Users Need Longer To […]
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Discovering YBOP was one of the single greatest things that ever happened to me. Flat out. I had my first ed experience at 19. I was a virgin. It sucked. I had been getting off from porn since I was 12. I avoided all sexual possibilities from then till I was 21. That was when […]
Read More… from Age 23 – ED, I was afraid of sex
Started the blog after two months of reboot, with today culminating in a hardcore relapse. (11/3/11) So. I’m a relatively successful, good looking 30 year old man [doctor] who has had trouble getting hard ever since I came back from the war in 2003 when I was 21, or perhaps 22. Addiction is something that […]
Read More… from Age 30 – ED: Cured. Then relapsed. Now cured again
Ok, so a similar story to most of you on here. Once I stumbled upon YBOP a ton of bells and whistles went off and i felt super relieved. In my history with girls had a few steady GFs and lots of 1 night stands 2-3 month relationships, etc. Seemed like the ed was a […]
Read More… from 132 days – ED: Succesful sex. Everything worked great.
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