Hey everyone,

Thank you for all the materials and writings on this site. 

I am 27 years old. The first time I discovered pornography was around age 12, my father had some magazines that I looked at. Shortly after this, I discovered masturbation. I think I was 13. I wouldn't consider myself an addict at this age though.

Around age 15-16 I think is when I begin to view internet pornography. This has gone on until now. However, when I was 21 years old, I went an entire summer without any masturbation. I did view pornography at times during this stage though. Once summer ended, and college began again, I went back to viewing pornography and masturbation. I have a decent amount of 7-10 day streaks since then, too.

Now I am 27 years old. I want to remove this activity from my life permanently. Sometimes the urge seems to take over my mental clarity, and I fall to the sin once again. 

That is all for now. 

Respect for coming on here to make change welcome

Welcome. You'll find great tools here. Look around and find what works for you. Have you ever spoken to anyone about this before now?

I have spoken to my brother about it before. I have also been on the NoFap website on Reddit before. Neither talking to my brother or NoFap website helped much.

I am approaching being on Day 3 right now though. So I am beginning to come out of it again. Thank you for your response. And yes, I have found some great tools on this website. I was even chatting with a couple people last night on this website. 

Yeah the forums and chats are great. I can't imagine that just talking to somebody would really be much of an actual help if it wasn't backed up with action. I think that's a mistake a lot of people make.  I know personally that that thinking was a source of great frustration for me in the past. It was a real blow to me on occasion. You build it up that finally something might happen and then everything comes crashing down when nothing changes. 

GYE is definitely a great source of information and has activities that can be that action or at least give you some ideas. I know it has been for me. 

Welocome. Speaking to people is a great idea. First of all you come to the realization that many very nice ehrliche people are struggling just like you, so the depressive loser/rasha feeling dissipates and you can finally get to work. You will hear many ideas that worked for others. Hatzlocha.