Hashem Help Me wrote on 02 Jan 2022 12:18:

Golden post! This can’t be any closer to the truth! It’s pure emes! Often, people are struggling and they connect porn with masturbation! Meanwhile they’re two totally different battles! And if you fall with masturbation! Stay strong with porn! It’s a whole sugya in its own! And if you can accomplish that by means of motivation! And understanding your done with porn! Even if you fall then with masturbation sometimes for a relief or whatever it might be. You’ve still come 80% maybe more of the way!! Porn destroys you! And makes you need to masturbate much more now! And in the long run! Cuz it creates this need for sexual excitement! This corrupt mindset that sex Is so exciting! And in the long run you’ll have masturbated 1000s of times more! Stay strong with porn! Even if you fail masturbation! And eventually you can focus on masturbation when you have porn under your sleeve! And it’ll be much easier to fight masturbation then cause often masturbation comes from a mindset of thinking and fantasies so you need some sexual outlet so we masturbate! But if you end that slowly they’ll be less fantasies with the correct motivation and mindset! Good luck! You got this! 

so true  awesome post hashemhelpme
yetzer tries to get you everywhere
we gotta take our wins where we can get them 

Fell after being so good
I need to try reading easypeasymethod again it sincerely helped
until one peek
gotta prevent that one peek next time

Stressful last week but stayed clean over the weekend bh

Shoutout to zedj for the chizuk congrats on hitting 100 days hope to get there myself

Just fell after 9 days clean was mz"l
no porn bh
but its so hard to stop everything at once any advice?

First of all celebrate the fact that you have kept away from watching. that is an incredible accomplishment and you should feel good about yourself. secondly, when is the last time you accomplished 9 days? If it has been a long time, go buy yourself a treat and celebrate with a nice bracha when you enjoy it. Look at it as a siyum and celebrate with Hashem. then just move on! It usually helps to have an accountability partner...

Just watched for the first time in a month 
It just happened so quickly
I really need a partner to tell every time I go on the internet
Maybe I'll just start posting on my thread every time before and after

Going online
signing in

Signing out 
still clean bh

Just had a small fall
Will restart the count after two 9 day streaks in a row
Hoping to hit 18 straight this time 

Don't forget to celebrate 9 clean days. It's an accomplishment in of itself!

Perhaps what you think is a fall can be categorized as a slip?
Do you have a mentor or close friend/rebbe you can share your ups and downs?
mmaybe getting a fellow gye member as a partner?

613guard wrote on 30 Jan 2022 07:00:

There is a major difference between having one slip and having a relapse. A lapse represents a temporary slip or return to a previous behavior that one is trying to control or quit (usually a onetime occurrence), whereas a relapse represents a full-blown return to a pattern of behavior that one has been trying to moderate or quit altogether. 

Instead of viewing your slip as a step backward, think of it as a progression on your road to recovery. Many people lapse or relapse, and if you think of each attempt at sobriety as a means of getting closer to your end goal — a lesson in your cumulative recovery learning, so to speak — this setback won’t be in vain.

DavidT wrote on 30 Jan 2022 15:18:

awesome chizuk
true point its hard to look at it that way the yetzer just tries to get u to give up but you cant ever ever give up

Had a clean streak for 5 days then it got really bad and held myself back for 2 days then i fell
I keep doing this

Do you see a trend of what caused you to fall? Maybe you should try avoiding that activity.