How have you been unslaving yourself from the evil forces of modern life that want your body and soul in exchange for profit, user?
I'm just going to cite a few of those: > vidya > fast food > porn (the worst one, I think) > drugs: alchohol, weed, cigarettes, anti-depressants, etc. > marvel movies
This thread is for all of those who want to make best use of their freedom to share tips and such. Coomers and other satan's minions are welcome, these are the ones in most necessity of help.
Still working towards living my life closer to my base instincts. It's surprisingly difficult to cut unnecessary media out of your life, and silence is much harder to find in this world than noise. Not surprisingly most people I meet are afraid of silence.
Moreso than that, I'm having trouble removing my masks. The various personas I have when interacting with the different people in my life come out so automatically, and I don't even know how to begin to remove them. Hopefully some wisdom comes with time.
>I'm just going to cite a few of those: you forgot >Any Forums or social media if you prefer
Christian Rodriguez
OP you really need to take marvel movies out, it sounds like you're being childish about something you personally dislike which shits up the spirit of the thread. Perhaps adjust it to "Popular Media" instead?
Zachary Martinez
lol
Noah Murphy
>vidya used to play 12 hours+ a day when I was younger, now I can't get into any vidya at all no matter how much I try >fast food I've been switching to home made meals for everything instead of restaurant and fast food. Less toxic ingredients and more cash saved, feels good. >porn been trying to quit for over 10 years with no luck, I made it weeks/months at a time and nothing worked, not even the easypeasymethod. I split from my wife and all of a sudden that cope went out of the window and I've had no desire to use. >drugs I've noticed my body is very sensitive to drug use and it takes me awhile to recover or reach "normal" status. Even alcohol takes me 5 days to get back to a normal healthy mind, it's like it completely destroys my hormone balance and or test levels. >marvel movies/tv I've always thought capeshit was for bug men who just want to consooooom. Overall, I've gotten much better after I left a toxic relationship that held me back more than I realized. Most of my copes got easier to quit or abstain from and I feel like I'm finally transforming into who I want to be or was meant to be. Things no longer feel like a massive uphill battle to do basic things. Quitting all of this has given me extreme discipline/willpower to conquer any challenge that I come across.
>now I can't get into any vidya at all no matter how much I try Somewhere along the lines of when I hit 31 or 32 I became completely incapable of enjoying video games. It felt like it happened overnight too, and since gaming was my entire childhood and primary hobby, the growing pains were rough.
Eli Diaz
Yeah me too. I can boot any game up and after 10 minutes I realize I'm not having any fun, have an overwhelming feeling like I'm wasting my time and that this isn't producing anything of value. It wasn't a slow ween off of vidya either. Two years ago I became completely unable to watch tv/movies and play games and I'm 26 now.
Parker Stewart
nice user, after all that heartbreak - wishing you all the best. WAGMI. I would like to add >TV / media / news / subscription television Everyone at the gym talks about this shit all the time. It is just absolute brain rot. I can sense passion when they talk about such trivial things. Which is truly sad given our capabilities. And let's not even get started on news / media. To quit, I got sick of the filth being shoved down our throats and I just stopped watching any tv.
Carson Bailey
I’m 26 too!
Jeremiah Mitchell
Neat, haven't met another user that had that sort of overnight change. I wonder how many men experience this?
Jace Cox
>I am 19 and listen to the Joe Rogan podcast
Jayden Wilson
Based and Barbarianpilled picture there, brother. Silence is best accompanied with solitude in the outdoors. Going on walks/hikes, especially in Winter when it's rare to see another person on the trails, is something that always puts me at ease. I hear it on the mask/persona thing. It's very difficult for me to really be myself around others when I feel like I've been living like a mirror for years, simply reflecting whoever I'm around. It got to the point where at my lowest I felt like I didn't exist in the absence of other people, I wasn't a point in a web of connected lives but the gaps in the web. Scary stuff. I've since made a great effort to lessen consumption of media, and increase self-reflection/contemplation, creative efforts, and working out. I'm doing a lot better than I was, but it's hard at times to resist falling back on old personas when interacting with certain people or groups. I'm not really religious, or at least not committed to one yet, but I took some classes on the bible in university and when struggling with the personality stuff I remembered the name God tells Moses at the burning bush, "I am that I am", and took comfort in that statement.
Somewhere, at some point for me, it's as if a switch flipped. I realized I wasn't getting any younger and the only thing I cared about was going out and achieving things, getting life/memorable experiences that I will take to the grave. I work just enough to pay bills, invest a little bit and have left over cash to go out and experience, meet others and do memorable things. The desire and experience to do these are only getting better after I left the bad relationship. I feel like I learned a life time in those 5 years and now finally understand what I want to do in life without feeling aimless, wandering around.
Justin Perry
26 years old here, porn addicted for the last 10-12 years. Longest streak was 150+ days, though I kicked it for good. Turns out I’m right back where I started.
>vidya Similar to Osama Bin Ladsn, once a week I will play a single 25 minute game of CS:GO in casual. Besides that, I haven’t played a video game in years. Actually, once a year ill get nostalgic and play half of a Zelda game on an emulator.
>marvel movies Never seen one
>weed Used to be a pothead in high school, but I quit and haven’t smoked weed in literally 8 years
>alcohol I have 2 veers on Friday, two on Saturday if I got out with friends. Alcohol and drugs are not a vice for me. I quit the juul a while ago too, but once a week I still scrounge hits off my brothers juul. It doesn’t really even do anything for you if you’re not already addicted. I keep telling him to not hit it in front of me, if he doesn’t want me asking for to smack it.
Mostly my main issue is porn addiction, and screen addiction. I spend like 6+ Hours a day on my phone on this site and other social media’s. I’m so hopelessly addicted.
Hello sirs i have also had this happen and I am 27. The only thing game I can enjoy is bf4 online after i take my pre work out, ill play for 20-30 min then work out
Leo Powell
Still struggling with porn even though I have a cute GF that lets me fuck her raw. I don't know, I don't even like the sex, I just enjoy cuddling with her but then my lizard brain takes over. I fucked her in the ass even though I find it horrifying. On the outside my life is sorted out, I exercise and I'm not an autistic retard. On the inside I'm a sex addict and it's destroying me. What do I do bros? I've tried replacing sex/ porn with other things my lizard brain enjoys, but ammo is expensive and I only have so much energy to run.
Nathaniel Moore
might have to report this one as a covert /sig/ reddit thread
