My name is Bilal and I’m from OHIO, USA 🇺🇸 This is actually my first time ever joining a community like this. I’ve never been part of NoFap or any other groups before, and honestly this is the first time in my life I’ve openly talked about PMO (besides recently DMing Dan). What initially drew me here was Dan’s YouTube channel. His perspective was different from most of the other content out there. A lot of channels just say things like take cold showers, stay busy, use willpower, etc. The “parasite” explanation, knowledge vs act, etc really clicked with me. I joined mainly to learn from others who are going through the same thing and hopefully contribute where I can too. Looking forward to growing and improving alongside you guys. 💪

Curious to hear from you guys. What was the moment where you realized you actually needed to change something? For me, I kind of accidentally noticed that PMO was an issue.. I think I was around 21 or 22. Life was actually going fine -> I was studying, working, exercising, had a good relationship with my family, friends, girlfriends, all of that. But one day I was just laying in bed feeling super depressed. And I genuinely could not pinpoint why. So I decided to PMO. At that point it was something I used for everything. If I was bored, sad, happy, excited, anxious. Whatever feeling I had, I would regulate it with PMO. But what I noticed right after was that I actually felt worse than before. That is when I got the (genius) idea to google: "Is porn bad for you?" What I found was what made me decide to quit. I stumbled into the nofap community, and there I read testimonies from guys describing the exact same things I was experiencing. The dullness of life. Lack of deep motivation. Anxiety. Stress. Escalating sexual preferences. That was the first moment where I realized something might actually be wrong here. I would not say it was planned. I kind of just stumbled into it. What about you? What made you decide to start questioning PMO?