Do not despair, brother. Despair is one of the main components behind the addiction. You have been using porn to fill a void in your life, it’s been your coping mechanism for stress and loneliness. So if you despair, the addiction grows stronger. You don’t have to pretend to feel fine and happy. But you do not need to condemn yourself as doomed, or a failure or hopeless either, understand? I was completely and entirely addicted to porn too. I’d wasted almost a decade of life to it. Stayig awake until 5am every day hooked on browsing it, dedicating folders to it, I was porn sick too.There is a way out of the addiction. I made it out and so can you. It will require a few things:>Stop shaming yourself for browsing porn.This might sound counterintuitive, but if you let go of shame surrounding the porn usage, you will use porn less and less. Porn is an inferno burning your mind, and shame is the gasoline. It grows larger the more shame you pour on it. Remove the shame and porn burns to a smaller more manageable size. >Understand how it came to beYou never used to be a porn addict, remember? It took a process of time to slip into porn addiction. Retrace your steps and remember what that process looked like. What big events in life lead to the addiction, what stressors erupted in life that made porn seem like the best distraction at the time. Figure this out and you will learn the process that pulled you into porn. It will show you the reverse is true and possible, that there exists a process out of porn addiction. This gives hope. >Seek GodYou mentioned you have no real friends, and you are older. You will require strength and encouragement, a shelter to confide in. God is that fountain of strength and refuge. I could not fight it alone either. But when God showed up in my life, I was no longer alone.You are not doomed. You are going to push past this addiction. I believe in you, man, God be with you.
>>32319844This is a great thread, been on the road out, thanks manHow have you sought God?
>>32319844>>32323250>samefagging because no one cared about your religious nonsense
>>32319844>You have been using porn to fill a void in your lifeThis.Porn is often times used as a distraction from some other problems/unprocessed pains in life
>>32319844Yes indeed
>>32319844I hope I can find God to help me anonI started watching porn around 12 when I was switching schools and lost all my friendsI never had social anxiety until that day, now I'm 28 and have had social anxiety most of my lifeFunny how that works, from 8-12 I was the most social and popular kidI need to find that happiness again
This is actually advice. I am surprised to see something like this. I have been fighting thus myself, and this is just what I needed to read to help me through it. Thank you.
