I'm excited about the idea of a self hypnosis session geared towards this problem, and the folks are either con artists or absurdly confident to offer a 90 day money back guaruntee. I'm also extremely grateful you'd offer to share it with me, thanks a lot. I feel a little less isolated in my problem posting in this thread and offers like that are great cheers.
I'm pleased to hear your doing well. It sounds like from the tone of your posting there is a sense of action, you are actively working towards a solution and regardless of whether what your doing at the minute succeeds at least you are doing something and actively seeking a solution. Its great stuff. I kinda get the idea that if your problem is mostly mental that is great, because from what I've seen if you get the right material, the right therapist or the right moment, moment of insight or epiphany and BOOM you've written over that destructive mental pattern and changed it forever. All it takes is getting there and if your determined you will.
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Welcome to the newcomer! Can I ask you said you can't come inside your wife does that mean you can come outside? I ask because I've always lacked that confidence to and that alone would be a victory for me.
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Im so glad I found this site and these comments. I am going insane. Do you mind if I tell you the score with me and get some feedback, fair dos to you all for coming on to find answers because its a problem!
I have just come home to an email from a local hypnotherapist guaranteeing that my problem will be solved ib 6-9 weeks. Im sceptical of course but he has offered a free consultation to assure me and prove it!
Just do it man, you got nothing to lose from a free consultation.
Just keep plugging away, if he is good I'm sure it will work. THe more I've looked into it the more I am utterly convinced altering those triggers and presupposed ideas that form how we approach and feel every situation is the key to changing our conscious behaviour (like all that self chatter etc that gets anxiety going and probably contributes) though it sounds like in your case you'd really benefit from the fleshlight resensitisation training. If you've looked through the posts you'll have seen that blog that references it.
Willpower and positive thought won't do it alone, we aren't really our concious selves but a mountain of compounded experience and feelings. Hypnotherpay will hopefully cut through that with a knife and place in a whole new set of suppositions and filters through which your lifes actions will filter and fix your problem. Read about some Milton Erikson if your interested in how it all came about, and to read about its efficacy.
With the internet porn thing you've got an idea in your head, you've trained your brain to be aroused by porn and to come with porn. You've built a pattern there and your brain is locked into it, you can't break a pattern once it is formed but you can put a new one over the top of it.
, i have what people think is a perfect life-but each day i just feel lower and lower as I cant enjoy the one thing I love alot!
Yeah man I think we've all been there and I'm not saying we've all got through it but I think taking the right steps will get you there. First thing is first you should investigate learning to conciously manage your mental states. Relaxation and anxiety exercises otherwise this depression will build resentment towards yourself and your partner especially (I think some of us begin to hate our partners for being normal odd as that sounds)
The right hypnotherapy is going to help, I've recommended meditation and self hypnosis in this thread and the other poster is having a good time with cognitive behavioural therapy that I want to get at myself. The main thing that is going to stop you sinking lower and lower though is getting a bit of attitude towards the problem, getting in your head that you are going to fix it and keep trying and trying until you find something that works. I know the temptation to give up, but that will sink you into depression even further.
At the minute having cycled through so many things I'm set on Paul Mckennas hypnosis and meditation. I'd rather pay for professional hypnotherapy so if you've got the money please do it and let us know what effect it has.
At this point I'd also like to mention some tantric stuff I've listened to from a site called personalifemedia where they talked about sexual orgasm training and how you can increase sensation through focusing on that area, just another random thought - I get a lot of them. The sexual knowledge contained within the tantric system seems incredible and the results people get are equally stunning. It seems there are bodies of knowledge out there that could be incredibly useful if anyone ever found the time to catalogue and draw it altogether. If I ever did make it rich that would be how I would spend my days I think, bring together all the knowledge and offer out free treatment courses as it would be of use to people like us.
/rant off.... I'm an veritable bag of $#%^ emotions right now and rambling helps. I'm going to go and relax maybe try a bit of roy masters meditation or paul mckennas hypnosis. For some reason I'll be damned if I can sit through ''the dive'' at all. Just get incredibly bored and frustrated. Is that a symptom of something maybe? To anxious or restless, it shouldn't be difficult to sit still for 30m without checking a clock> I'll stick to the guided stuff for now.
Listen guys its very cathartic for me to read about your progress keep checking in.
PP. Actually my ramble isn't off. You know it occurs to me that internet porn could be the yeti hiding in the closet (can't imagine the right metaphor, red herring perhaps). People often accuse cannabis of causing scizophrenia, without getting into the politics or the science to much; it is often the case that they are self medicating to control themselves and the cannabis is after the fact not before the fact, or it is merely a trigger for an underlying condition. What I'd like to posit is the idea that some of us are perhaps already in a disassociative disorder, or some other disorder that led us to avoid intimacy and medicate ourselves with a way to satisfy our needs that doesn't require us to break down our defences.
It could be one or it could be the other or a generous helping of both who knows. As I said I'm just letting my mouth run because of a desire to avoid living inside my own head I suspect. I shudder to think of a professional psychologist reading my thoughts, everyone hates an amateur armchair commentator but since there is bugger all else being written about it except by people like us why not.