>>29079953

It's a meme. People are often addicted to fapping because of depression and abstaining from masturbation isn't going to do anything to help a mental illness.

Do nofap for a personal challenge or if you'd like more free time to do productive things, but if you're literally fucked up, then get serious professional help.

>>29079953
Doesn't aid against depression. Makes you feel better though, at least in my experience so maybe

>>29080241
Feeling better does aid against depression.

I'm really not sure, there was some dude posting on my college's subreddit about him being slightly suicidal. The rest of his post history was no fap shit and how proud he was of himself for going like a month or whatever. I think it's just a meme, fix your depression a real way instead of just changing how you spend your time alone

>>29080457
If you to go the r/nofap board people claim it got them to lift more at the gym, got them promoted, got their hair growing where they were bald, their parents respect them more, all crazy shit like that.

I refuse to believe that this can be just placebo effect. Does it actually do that much for some people, or is this a mix of trolls and genuinely deluded men?

Oh, and another thin you will find is a lot of Ramadan posting, apparently the nofap community there is pretty muslim.

its a meme. Try not fapping and then a month later when nothing changed start fapping agin

Source: I fell for it

>>29079953
If trading depression for lack of sleep and constant fuming frustration is an improvement, then yes.

It's not quite a meme but not quite true either. If you fap a lot, it'll take up a lot of time and energy that you could be spending elsewhere. Also, you might be deathgripping which is bad for your dick in the event that you do ever get a woman>implying. Some people get disappointed because they go into it thinking it will fix their life when it definitely WON'T on its own. Other people go into it and think it's the second coming because they probably end up devoting their time to other pursuits instead of fapping.

TL;DR

It isn't a magic panacea, but it does free up some time and energy for other pursuits. Give it a try.

All the positive effects are placebo effect except for the amount of extra time you have in the day.

>>29079953
nofap is pure placebo.

>>29079953
Well if nofap actually has benefits or not can be argued but the more important question in my opinion......can you pull it off?

I can't go without fapping for longer than 2 days. If this is bad or not who knows. But it is bad selfcontrol. You could say i have to a certrain point not really much control over it......

Ive already nofapped for a week now. The sixth day my horniness was at its peak; i resisted the urge to fap to see what would happen. Now today on the seventh day, the horniness has died down considerably. What does this mean? I was hoping the horniness and energy would continue to increase.

>>29081750
Does it count if you fap but not come?
I'm on nofap since 4 days but i fapped on the second on third day but stopped myself before actually comming.

Srsly some girls in the porn suddenly seem so seductive. They want me to cum, they want me to fail but i won't give it to them. I won't give in.

I think that no capping entirely is a meme. I feel no different if I masturbate once a week than once a month.

BUT no excessive fapping makes a big difference to my depression and mental state. If I jack off daily for a month I feel very shitty - no energy and lots of negative thoughts. But if I keep it down to once or twice a week I don't have any of these specific issues, although my depression persists.

NoFap doesn't cure depression, but excessive masturbation might make depression worse.

>>29081873
Hmmm idk...
Im the same as u actually. I fapped but just didnt cum. I pretty sure the cumming part is what matters, at least regarding physical benefits.

>>29081750

Your body is getting used to it again. It's like an addiction. The worst part is right when you first stop.

Overall you should even out shortly.

>>29080503
placebo
if a lot of people try it, some will succeed at something and give nofap credit

>>29079953
It's not like not touching your dick in itself floods you with dopamine or whatever. People feel good after doing nofap because they're proud they've shown restraint and achieved a goal. You could get this pride if you told yourself you were going to abstain from anything, and succeeded.

>>29080503
its not a placebo, but its non some mind boggling revelation either. the reason people become more motivated to do shit, is because you obviously feel the greatest urger to fao when you are alone. So you always try to find stuff to keep yourself occupied. I did nofap for 5 months back in high school, and i just hung with friends more, but it didnt cure my depression or anything.

Well, if you mean actual "chemicals-in-the-brain-fucked-up" depression, then no. Seek medical solutions to that. But if you mean depression as in the catch-all term that all dumbfucks use these days to refer to anything mildly sad, then sure, it will. I am overcome with horrible feelings of guilt, sadness, anger, and self-loathing everytime I finish masturbating, but when I can overcome my urges just once I feel so happy that I can control at least my fucking masturbation habits in my life. It is also when I can focus more on God and other things when I am not playing with my dick for half the day for a come that probably won't even be worth it.

However, I guess the main issue here would be lust, but it certainly is a lot easier to isolate the lust and stamp it out when you're not masturbating.

>>29081873
Don't tease yourself, anon, because if you can masturbate without coming once you'll do it a little more and a little more until finally you come and you're back at square one again. The self-control you might have commanded over your sperm will dissolve before you know what is happening.

But one could also say that what you should be focusing on is suppressing lust, so you won't have to masturbate. If you don't masturbate but still willingly lust after other things, then you haven't made any real progress. But then again, I try to approach no-fap from a spiritual point-of-view.