Back to the path of sobriety

I am with this community for couple of years…My addiction are porn and masterbation…I am trying hard, but cant get out from this vicious cycle…after few relapses in recent times,i am thinking now to restart the journey again…

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Welcome back!
What are you going to do different this time to help you stay away from your addictions?

@montasir welcome back.
Sober ninja asks a great question, you want different results so you need to do something different, what’s that going to be?

Not much…I am going to celebrate each week…I’ll give reward to myself after passing a successful clean week…:slightly_smiling_face:

I hope that this is helpful but I’ve found that by eliminating bad influences and materials from around your daily life helps a lot. I’ve also discovered that keeping daily journal entries and attempting personal self control goals helps a lot too as well as making a schedule. What has helped me the most this time around has got to be planning. I have come up with plans so that every time I feel the urge I go to a specific place or think of a specific thing. This has really helped me to cut the problem off at the root. If you stop the feelings from developing initially you can prevent it from worsening and eventually leading to porn. I have learned a lot from my experiences and my journey is not over yet, it has taken me months to get where I am but I am still determined to beat this addiction. I hope I have been a help to anyone.

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So if nothing is going to change, how do you expect yourself to be better this time? The whole point of trying to change a behavior is to change your life surrounding the behavior.
If you aren’t going to change anything, and to try anything to make a change, you are going to end up with the same results you have always gotten. The people on this app who have maintained long term sobriety have changed everything. Maybe you should look into groups like SA.

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Actually,i have tried so many things before,there is almost nothing left to try now…So,this time,i am trying to keep things much simpler…like sharing my progress in a weekly basis in this group,watching motivational videos etc…


1st sober update…
1st week…

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Almost relapsed…so close…thanks god…
A video in facebook initiated the trigger…
Unconsciously(is it!!!) surfed a porn website…searched a porn related to that facebook video…teacher-student sex related…i am disclosing this,because i want to come clean now…atleast i am trying. Dont mind plz…after watching for about 10 mins,i became concious and stopped immediately… I identified the trigger…that is the best part…now,back to the track again…hope,it will prolong without this kind of incident…i am sober for 20 days now…
You’ll TC…

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