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I’m trying to break a bad habit (p*rn) and it’s stressing me out. How do you guys manage your stress? I try to distract myself with YouTube, Reels, and video games, but my stress levels stay the same when I try to resume what I was doing before.
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Anonymous 15w

yall are downvoting but this is a real question 😭

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Anonymous 15w

using your phone will only raise your stress, try reading, drawing, taking a walk, anything but staring at a screen

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Anonymous 15w

I used to sweat it out doing yard work and swinging a pickaxe, but I know plenty of people go out to a gym/ different environment to do the same. Also, masturbating by itself isn’t bad, just as long as it take up time for anything else important or replaces the habit

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Anonymous 15w

Delete everything, you just gotta rawdog that shit, make permissions on your devices you can’t change that make it impossible to get to those apps, if you make it impossible it gets a lot harder to even do the habit, if you find a way to get past it block that part too. It’s a game of whack a mole until no more moles come out. At least that’s the idea

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Anonymous 15w

Me but with weed

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Anonymous 15w

I go outside for a walk, sometimes it’ll take like an hour for the urge to go away, but since I’m walking in public or looking at the sky it calms me down

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Anonymous 15w

Emdr

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 15w

That’s good and all, but how do I manage the stress. I don’t tend to struggle avoiding it since I do everything in browsers. The problem is when I’m feeling stressed, it’s the only thing I’ve ever used to manage it since middle school. I don’t know how else to manage the stress, so I feel as though I’ll break without an alternative to relieve that stress.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 15w

There was a time I thought the same but honestly for me spending time doing absolutely nothing I’m talking laying down at home and feeling the texture of your sheets or something like that, it’s always helped me calm down

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 15w

Also a dog or a person you can confide it

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 15w

I’m still trying to figure it out myself, but what I’ve noticed is that leaning on God helps a lot

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 15w

aw hell nah

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 15w

Just saying what works for me bro. No need to ad lib.

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