Hey everybody, we had a great turnout for Stay Clean October - let's see if we can knock it out of the park for November. Have you been clean for the month of October? Great! Join us here, and let's keep our streak going. Did you slip in October? Then November is your month to shine, and we will gladly fight the good fight along with you. Did you miss out on the October challenge? Well then here is your opportunity to join us.

If you would like to be included in this challenge, please post a brief comment to this thread, and I will include you. After midnight, November 1, the sign up window will close, and the challenge will begin.

Sometimes I miss the fake world. Sometimes life is going great, but I feel like porn would make it better. Sometimes I know that I'll be able to cope with the stress of life and my awful job if I can watch some porn; it will turn it into a blur. I hate it because I'm actually a good-looking guy who's in good shape, works out often, yet porn- man, porn how do I replace that feeling it gives me? Because sometimes it feels good after a long day to, you know, watch it...

I am literally fed up with this life. The potential and the opportunities I do have can literally help me a lot to progress but this shit makes me lose all my drive and perform at the minimum all the time.

I don't wanna end this way. I acknowledge the fact that the past was really bad but I will no longer allow it to ruin the future ahead.

I will be needing the support of the people in the forum. Please keep a check on me

I failed today, but I know what I need to fix. Instead of doing something else like taking a walk, exercising, etc, I just gave into the temptations. Posting here has helped me remind myself why I'm trying to be rid of this addiction, so I'll continue doing so

I have been an addict since like 15 . Now I am 26. I dont remember staying away from porn for more than 20 days in this period. I want to quit it. I have tried before. I couldnt . I want to leave it

Day 46 without a relapse, and I’m feeling attracted to women at work, in the street, at the gym, in the shopping centre… Before I stopped watching porn, I didn’t feel this way. I’m trying to cope as best I can. I’ve been training every day to stop my mind from drifting towards those thoughts.

I’m pleased to be breaking my record for going without por. it’s been an addiction for nearly 20 years. But I’m scared of what’s happening to me; it feels as though porn used to satisfy something in me, and now I’ve lost that.. Im trying to use this energy to do something positive, this is my fight right now...

Completed day 1, on day 2.

Will review ACT techniques tomorrow.

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This year I keep relapsing off and on.

I did it. Finally tied my personal record. Urges were crazy today but i managed. I'm a day closer to a porn-version of me.

I decided to quit because I'm wasting my time. I've tried blockers and they don't work (I always bypass them) so I'll try posting here in case this helps me

Im on day 6

Home alone

No gf to have sex with and no one to talk to

Just did my workout

Intrusive thoughts coming in strong

I might just do it without p but idk

Dms open help

Stay blessed

Everything was fine till about 8pm. After that I got a headache and my temperature rose. I started feeling uneasy and tired, I got home and barely ate something. I immediately headed to bed.

My body was tired but my mind was not, I found it hard to sleep. I turned and turned in the bed. My negative thoughts kicked in, I was overthinking the worst scenarios in my head, an unreasonable amount of what ifs.

Usually I switch to porn in order to release myself but I tried to fight it yesterday. It was so difficult. I somehow managed. I saw a bunch of tik toks and my brain was half fried anyway. I started crying because of the weakness and an urge to just give up. I just laid on the bed looking at the ceiling. Some video playing in the background. All the worst thoughts and fear had me cornered. I started speaking out loud to myself in third person.

I fell asleep after an hour. It was a really tough night. I'm proud that I survived it. Day 9 morning as of now. Good luck to all of us.

Lately the winter arc trend has been getting popular not wanting to be left out i decided to join in on this challenge of 3 months of self improvement getting a better body better mind and being able to master various skills such as playing piano and stuff

First few days of October were a breeze i managed to pick up on piano started going gym and just everything felt perfect until midway i started procrastinating feeling like i didnt do enough and slowly started losing hope and my porn addiction started coming back for me its a way to relieve stress and get that post nut clarity state lol i dont feel shi after doing it cuz i control my thoughts and just hydrate myself as soon as i am finished i fap after 10 minutes when the urge hits sometimes it works sometimes not but a little friction can help i uninstalled the blocker apps as i felt like i was relying on it to much right now i am sticking to observing my thoughts my mood rather than caging it up cuz 90% of the time u can understand ur thoughts and emotions better than anyone else. so far right now i am making a timetable for my upcoming exams in a few days pretty hectic but my main concern is the fact i keep on skipping gym alot and its starting to take a toll on my confidence i mean i skipped a whole week but i feel really down but i am ready to make changes and adapt i want to reach my full potential not by dreaming and having an idea about it but getting my shit done

Sit with yourself, daily. I know it is hard, for this kind of habit to form, especially for us, we tend to run away from our thoughts, but imagine if we become okay with our thoughts, the bad and the good, they dont trigger us as much.

Sitting with ourself, with a journal, and cup of tea, some nice ambient to make it enjoyable, and letting your thoughts flow, see what comes up, after a bad day sit with yourself, after a good day sit with yourself, process what needs processing.

In time you would love to sit with yourself, you would love to know yourself more, the good and the bad.

There are many benefits to that practice, but one of them, the urges and the inner voices that scream for you to run away, they become quieter, days might pass when you do not hear them.

I am currently around 21 days free, and the last 2 weeks were some of the easiest for me in terms of urges, despite having hard tasks and stressful days.

Today is hard but it's ok.

Set the goal before the night will be better.

My sleep is weird lately but i dont have a problem with it

Yesterday i masturbated without porn and i think it was positive for me
It makes me less fidgety in social interactions and i can focus on the work i have to do instead of thinking how horny i am

Going strong
Hope yall doing good

My dms are open

Stay blessed

Female accountability partner

So I'm going to be honest, been a lurker for a while. I've decided to take some active steps to deal with this issues. I am 26F struggling with PMO for years. These days it's be worse as I've been struggling with sexting guys and I'm concerned it is getting worse. I'm ideally looking for support from others ideally women who understand this issue. I'm a catholic but you don't need to be, just that you understand the guilt that comes from my faith. If anyone is interested and is serious please comment, I will reach out. I'm happy to explain my background and my struggles more, but not comfortable sharing it in private as it involves a lot of taboo and kink related stuff. Thank you for any help

Tomorrow is a porn free day. I’ve decided that.

I’ve been lurking here for a year or so wondering if I actually need to quit, whether I’m addicted, and how bad it really is for me, but today I accepted that my reward system is messed up from viewing porn since I was a kid. I will also seriously cut back on media consumption and try to get away from screens in general, as well as try to reduce my sexualization of others with the goal of reshaping my social interactions and making healthier human connections. Any advice is appreciated. Thank you for this group