Suffering from porn addiction

Hello I’m Mahmood , 24 years old . I’ve been addicted to porn I think for 7 years now. Throughout these 7 years I’ve gone through ups and downs, I’ve relapsed a lot of times while trying to hold myself back from binging on it … My greatest struggle is I have no one whom I can confide in , the reason behind this is that my Family is pretty conservative and they will not understand me if I opened up to them about my addiction… Moreover it’s very embarrassing for me to talk about my addiction to my Friends cuz yo know it’s “Porn” and in my Society it’s a very critical thing to talk about…
Today is 22 Sep,2022 and this is the Date I found this App on . I will start my sobriety journey from today and hopefully I can find here the Sufficient support to defeat this facken addiction

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Welcome Mahmoud, you are not alone. There are many people here (and around the world) recovering from the same thing.

There are many threads on Talking Sober about this. If you go to the search bar and search terms like “porn” “PMO” “masturbation”, etc, you’ll find some.

Here’s one that has been fairly active over the last few months; it might be a good place to start:

PMO - Porn, Masturbation, Recovery

Don’t give up. One day at a time :innocent:

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Hi bro its not easy but with God js very possible.am day 4 tomorrow marks day 5.be strong and keep on praying.

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Welcome to the forum. It is a great tool to find info and support. The timer is great to help you keep on track. As my timer for alcohol addiction hit one year i created one for porn too. I never considered myself a porn addict but realized i was using more than i wanted. What’s most important is to dive into the deeper causes of our addictions, whether it’s through therapy, support groups, self-help or otherwise. Than not actively using becomes just a part of the journey. I wish you a great journey. You’ll discover a lot, stay curious!

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