I've been reading a lot of posts from people at all different levels (5, 35, 605 days) talking about how nofap has made them realize how lonely they are, how much they were just filling "the void" with porn, and how they feel great about quitting but are struggling with this crippling emptiness leftover. I just wanted to clarify something for everyone in nofap: you are the strongest people on the planet.
That isn't just an attempt at woowoo motivation whatever- it's the truth. You see, everyone has their own way to fill the void. Your friends who watch porn, or go out all the time, compulsively hook up with girls, complain about their spouse, do drugs or drink or binge eat, or are constantly chugging coffee, they are all filling the void with these things, and they aren't even aware of it. When I was 17, I got addicted to cigarettes and cocaine. I quit coke a year later and smoking about three years later. My point here is that porn is no different than drinking, or binge eating, or snorting coke every night: it's extremely addictive. The difference between those people and you is that you are quitting cold turkey.
Alcoholics have aa, druggies have rehab, smokers have patches, but all you have is a website and your own willpower. You are literally willing yourself out of an addiction, without all this weak whiny shyt about meetings, holding hands, therapy or whatever the fukk. And as someone who quit coke and drinking without rehab, I mean that as offensively as possible. You guys are the real fukking winners of the world. No one else is capable of what you are doing. Try asking an alcoholic about his or her struggle- it'll include interventions, family drama, meetings, and countless relapses. They ran out of money, but you will never run out of internet. Druggies might break their entire hormone system forever, but you will never run out of dopamine. Smokers will sit around wearing patches hoping their addiction will go away, but you are sitting around willing your addiction away. You are the strongest people I've ever heard of.
The difference between every other zombie out there and you is that you aren't battling some random foreign chemical that was introduced to your systems- you are literally battling yourself, every morning and every night. There is nothing harder than what you are doing on the entire planet. So of course there's going to be a void leftover. You're quitting an addiction with no help at all. By quitting, your brain thinks that it just physically lost part of itself. The trick is to slowly realize that there is no void- this is life. What you are doing at that exact moment is what your entire life is about. Driving, walking, working, staring into space- if it's what you're doing at that moment, it's what your life is about. It's up to you to appreciate it and love it for what it is.
And three years down the road, or ten years down the road, when you look around at everyone wandering and scrambling with their random pathetic problems, you'll look back on nofap, sit back, and enjoy the moment for what it is, because you already figured it out.