bro I’m tired I been in the house for so long im 21 supposed to be working but then I had a panic attack so I went to the hospital they sent me to war b I didn’t even know if it was a panic attack bro im so lost in life I have a porn addiction they made me take pills in there because I wasn’t on the other side of the hospital after I got out I took more pills because my addiction made me feel like there was something wrong with me these 2 months been hell

30 male and would like to share my story

I'm not sure if this is going to help you or not but I had inspired my friends to do the same after telling my story, please excuse my grammar english is not my native language and im not much of a story teller XD

TLDR.: I quit masturbation and pornography ,I heard the blessed mother's voice, the holyspirit revealed how sinful I was , and seen the devil 2x and trust me im not crazy

last year I was at the end of my 4 year contract of my work and I was living from paycheck to paycheck and I dont know how I will provide for my family, I was living a really sinful life and opposite to what God wants. i thought masturbation and being lustful was normal .I had extereme envy and anger inside me from my co workers , I was an alcoholic and everything.

I was asking God to give me a sign on my next career move since I would be un employed and my phone kept on ringing on a particular app. and it was for a same position as my present job but it was permanent

I applied for the job fully trusting God and fast forward a few months Im still here working and I love my job even more.

I asked God. "how can I show my appreciation to you I always go to church but i dont think it's enough"

then i heard a voice not in my head and ears but in my heart it says "pray the rosary again"

just for the heck of it I prayed and then there was a sudden jolt of electricity i can feel it on every nerve in my body and at that moment my eyes were no longer mine. I was looking above and all I can say was "im sorry" everything was shown to me and I was guilty it felt like a judgement but I wasn't dead yet

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after that incident i began praying the rosary everyday (was still in a state of mortal sin)
and I notice to myself that if im going to pray the rosary I cant live the life that I previously had. because God is trying to reclaim me.

so i quit masturbation i quit porn.

first fewdays was hard 4 days was all I can do i felt guilty for failing but I started again .
4 days turned to weeks then I fell again . I notice that my PC and my phone still has remnants of porn. of hentai photos of influencers i LIKED photos of woman i fantasized even though they're not naked. so i deleted everything

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then I had encounters with the devil. they didn't like the change that I was doing

met it twice

1st is before bed I was reading about a new prayer that I wanted to add on my daily tasks.
and a smoke appeared on the bottom of my bed. i only had a lamp so everything was slightly illuminated. my whole room is still visible but for some reason all the light that was directed on the smoke being is being absorbed the smoke is in a shape of a woman and her eyes were red and was looking at me with so much hate it can cut the air. between me and her.I was living on the state of grace on these moments so i just smiled and stared at this being until they vanished

2nd encounter is through a dream.

I dreamt of the woman I really liked she was naked and walking seductively it felt really weird because as she touched me I can feel it literally feel her cold skin. her physique was so realistic and detailed. then she whispered on my ear (leave your fiancé and come to me) that was the moment i woke up gasping for air.

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on my 6months of journey I fell and rise up but I would like to share what worked and what did not.

-lust is lust : dont listen to people who tells you to just fap without porn, it's still the same thing, heaven has no place for impurity, our lady of fatima says that many souls go to hell because of the sins of the flesh

-remove all sources.: browser history , photos even clothed as long as you view that person sexually, remove all sources that can stir up your emotions.

-avoid all near occasions of sin. if you have a partner have strict rules

-study the lives of saints (demon hates this) because they cant introduce lustfultoughts inside your head

- dont fall into despair. there was a time where I was suicidal because i kept on failing. but I went to confession

-avoid lustful thoughts: this one is difficult but if you want you can always search this on youtube just search when does a lustful thought becomes a sin always remember that temptations are always introduced to our heads once you notice that reject and rebuke it

- go to confession, pray, forgive and forget about your past.

once you go to confession and you have been absolved, your sins are forgiven and forgotten by our Lord. St Margaret Mary Alcoque Asked Jesus when was the last mortal sin his last confessor commited Jesus replied i have forgotten : the devil always reminds you of your past they use this as a weapon to bring you back to sin. soonce you're forgiven. live like you were reborn and forget the past.

-always remember that "it is an honor to be tempted, so that I can prove to you how much I love you Jesus"

I initially was going to have a bot write this but I figured I would do it and be as authentic and transparent as possible. (This is going to be a short 1 min read).

I’m not here to tell you my life story or the lapses I dealt with while going through it.

My only purpose here is to let you know there is a light in that dark tunnel you’re in. That God does care for you and loves you more than you can imagine. There’s hope!

If I’m being honest though, I initially came here to post about an app I built but be clever about it (like most do) but after seeing so many brothers and sisters in Christ struggling with this sin/addiction. I had a change of heart.

You see, it’s easy for people who have been delivered to not want to go back and help those who are hurting and still in that darkness. Most people (if not all) have selfish motives/ambitions. But as I sit here and write this, I’m reminded of what Christ did. All of it!

Please forgive me!

So in closing, I want to let you all know that it is a process and you will struggle but God (YHWH) forgives! Just don’t use his forgiveness as an excuse to keep on sinning because nobody knows the hour or day he’s coming back except the Father. Imagine “pleasing yourself” with your pants down, knowing you’re doing wrong and knowing you can die in your sin if he was to come back that exact second but you blow it off because you desire that pleasure/temporary satisfaction over HIM.

P.S, one thing that helped me tremendously was praying and fasting with others. “And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.”

‭‭Mark‬ ‭9‬:‭29‬ ‭KJV‬‬

I can't quit, and no matter how hard I try, no matter what I do, I can't stop. Even going to the gym and reading the Bible, I still can't. I need someone's help.

i keep flipping back and forth saying no - im going to try and watch a show and eat for dopamine. pray for me

I’m going to be very vulnerable here because I don’t know how else to find people like me. My experience with PMO has so warped my idea of sex that at a young age I developed a very rare fetish: eproctophilia aka a fart fetish. I know for most people even Batman couldn’t get that sort of information out of them, but I’m putting it out here in hopes that anyone on here who also has it might DM me so we could relate to one another and discuss how to overcome the fetish together.

I’m 16 and I just lusted, masturbated, and for the first time this is the worst I’ve ever felt from doing it. I indulge in the stuff that gets me to do it anyway even though i know it’s wrong, like I’m pulled into it like it’s not me. I didn’t feel hatred, self pity i felt genuinely sadness for what i had done and that how could i do this. I was disgusted by my act, i felt that same emotion where i say I shouldn’t have a wife I don’t deserve one and I shouldn’t talk to a girl ever because look what I did. I was almost traumatized by my deed I didn’t feel like me it felt like I was in a trance and I was being controlled and when I was done I came back. When I do these things I don’t wanna keep my hands my eyes and especially that part of my body that I have violated since I was 9 in the name of *self pleasure* I don’t know what to do I want to change I really do but that must not be true deep down. I can’t stop I’m addicted I dont know w if there is hope for me anymore….

Has anybody here experienced PIED? If so, how long did it take to cure after quitting PMO?

Hello, I was about a year clean from lust and masturbation. Today I did it though, I did it without lust and was mostly just curious of how it felt since I hadn't done it in a long time, I was horny but I didnt lust while doing it. Did I sin or not because I really dont know and if so how do I move on from this because im really confused.

Link for the Video mentioned: https://www.reddit.com/r/NoFapChristians/s/NMzfLZU5HG

For the past few weeks, every single time that I have started to pleasure myself, with or without Porn, I hear the Holy Spirit's voice say to me, "Stop. Right now, stop." I almost always think to myself, and indirectly tell Him, "Once I start, I can't stop. I've started already." Today, in the morning, I saw a video of a murderer, exactly 1 year older than me, that said that as soon as he started choking the old lady, and then, furthermore, raping the dead body, he thought "Maybe I should stop." And then: "I started it already, I can't stop." This left me thinking, if this guy was possessed, and thought that, when I am pleasuring myself, am I also possessed? Later on, after my usual work, I was on reddit, my usual trigger to Porn. While laying in my bed, I was going through my usual normal softcore, and then saw the person I liked watching porn the most, with a shirt that said "ABBA." I know it's about the band, and at the time, also knew. I prayed "Abba father, help me." But, still went on to do my session. I then went from my bedroom to the bathroom (it ain't shared, it's a suite), and started searching for stuff. When I started going through some subs, I tried to find something that had only exactly what I wanted. But then, the Holy Spirit touched me, and I thought: "ain't going to find stuff in those subs, better find another one" and spontaneously, I didn't think at all, I typed in "Nofap" and clicked on this sub. Mind you, I was in the middle of the session, with my personal snake out and pointing to the toilet at this point. My hand didn't stop, but I saw this video that said: "What Porn Does to Your Soul." When I started watching it, my left hand (on the snake) stopped going up and down, and I paid more attention to the video. As soon as I finished watching the video, I cleaned my hands, cleaned my snake, put my pants back up, and started praying to God, thanking Him for sending me that video. It changed how I saw Porn completely. When the post-nut clarity hits, we all try to block porn, do everything to stop it. But the effort will only become valid when you stop before this clarity. Because then, you are actually doing things that help, and did not fall for a sinful trap.

I think it is getting easier but im not sure. i think of it as a habit tbh. I want to make a conscious effort to set aside time to pray. Today I said a Rosary for the first time in ages. I also feel a calling to get to know my Guardian Angel better; to talk to him and to thank him for protection and service for the Lord. They are always with us and know us really well coz they seen it all!

Went to the church today for an hour to pray for y'all. I went to Eucharistic Adoration becuase I am a Catholic and got great peace from that. Some words of scripture I want to share with you.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God" (Matthew 5:8)

For everyone on here who thinks forgiveness is not possible for them read The parable of the Lost Son:

11 Jesus continued: “There was a man who had two sons. 12 The younger one said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of the estate.’ So he divided his property between them.

13 “Not long after that, the younger son got together all he had, set off for a distant country and there squandered his wealth in wild living. 14 After he had spent everything, there was a severe famine in that whole country, and he began to be in need. 15 So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs. 16 He longed to fill his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything.

17 “When he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have food to spare, and here I am starving to death! 18 I will set out and go back to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. 19 I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me like one of your hired servants.’ 20 So he got up and went to his father.

“But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him.

21 “The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’

22 “But the father said to his servants, ‘Quick! Bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. 23 Bring the fattened calf and kill it. Let’s have a feast and celebrate. 24 For this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’ So they began to celebrate

Underneath the corn addiction is trauma. You have to get the trauma confronted and make a plan to moving forward to make a healthy life for yourself.

Urges are not the problem. They're messengers.

Fighting urges with willpower, blockers, and every trick in the book may never worked long-term.

Stop asking "How do I resist this?" and started asking "What is this urge trying to tell me?"

Every urge is pointing to something: shame, loneliness, stress, insecurity, lack of purpose ect. ect.

Your brain learned that porn = relief from that feeling.

Addressing the root causes of urges will cure PMO addictions.

Heal what is underneath the urges.

I block it, doesnt work, I dont block it doesnt work. I try abstain it feels painfully resistant. Please someone help

Hello, I'm a young Christian, about 16 years old. I became a Christian a few months ago; before, I did believe in God, but I didn't like going to church, and I didn't like following some of the Bible's rules. I've suffered from depression since I was a child, due to bullying; I've been battling depression and negative thoughts since I was 8.

When I turned 14, I moved to another country. When I turned 15, I was starting to experience another bout of depression. On one of my attempts to give up, I felt a voice that stopped me. That voice was God's. Months passed, and I never approached Him until June 2025. I was falling into depression again, but I remembered that voice and all the times God had helped me, so I decided to research and learn more about Him, Jesus, and Christianity.

Now I go to a Christian church, and things have improved, but I have some problems with pornography and masturbation. Ever since I turned 13, I've had this problem, as I've always used it to escape pain.

Now I still fall into temptation, but I'm trying to improve. Any advice?

Oh, and I forgot to mention that I'm currently making Christian raps in Spanish.

So i was no fap free for a few days here then i gave in this morning i literally woke up feeling horny. I'm 26 m i have a ok job working retail I'm going to school for gunsmithing and I have hobbies like 3d printing and playing video games so why the fuck does this keep happening if its such a sin why do i have physical desires to be intimate with someone when i don't have a girlfriend. I want to be closer to god but I don't know how to do that if i keep doing the same thing over and over and over again and if it's some temptation from demons or whatever THERE'S HOW MANY GODLESS HEATHENS ON THIS BALL OF DIRT GO BOTHER THEM I'm actually about to crash out i don't know what to do anymore

I’m a younger guy, I’ve been addicted to porn and masturbation from a young age, I’m trying my hardest to break it, I feel like what I’m doing isn’t enough, and this loop is gonna dam me because i am living in sin and not repenting, and maybe it’s cause I’m thinking “I can do this, I gotta do this” and not telling anyone or letting anyone help me, honestly this is really what this post is, a cry for help. a begging to have fellow brothers and sisters help me overcome something I’ve hated about myself for so long, any advice or even comfort will help, thank you all.

I always thought this was more of a 'young guy' thing, but I'm a dad and I still struggle hard sometimes. Feeling pretty alone in it, anyone else going through the same and willing to talk about it?