I remember I had a year long streak before I went and did some backpacking in Australia. I was hyped up and feeling ready to take over the world. In sydney rents are super expensive and you always have to share flats with people, so I was living in this flat with 6 other people. I thought Nofap had helped with social anxiety, but damn was I wrong.

Living there was hell for me. I could barely sleep because of the noise and partying, and the only way to make the social anxiety go away was....alcohol. After a while of the alcohol and waking up shitfaced game and lack of sleep, I was feeling sooo shit and in emotional pain that...yep you guessed it....I started watching porn again.

No amount of motivating posts could have helped me back then, I was just feeling so down that I needed some relief, and we have the illusion that porn will do just that, give you some relief. But of course it doesn't, and it makes it worse, so you drink more alcohol to numb yourself, and end up watching more porn to numb your horrible hungover feelings. It's a fucked up vicious circle.

It's important to figure out what the underlying issues are and start the healing work. Porn is just a symptom of something deeper.