Anyone here for SOOCD on NoFap??

I don’t think nofap is a good thing for someone with OCD. It messes up your reward system in your brain even more. And can cause or worsen issues with SOOCD. People will say it’s useful for mental health. But someone with OCD will always have anxiety around control, and making something normal and pleasurable taboo will cause problems that did not exist. If you have an addiction then theres help to be found, but don’t do nofap, thats my recommendation.

Definitely. Once I developed OCD it either caused too much stress or was only a means to compulse. No I between

I honestly believe how harsh I was over myself for masturbating is a big reason I developed OCD. Personally speaking, I started attributing certain things as being a result of me masturbating. I honestly believed my intrusive thoughts were connected to it so any time I did end up doing it I bet myself up over it. Not to say that maybe a bit more moderation wouldn't be better, but try and remove the guilt from it. It's not a bad thing so long as you're not overdoing it. Although, like @advocate109 said, if you're doing it as a compulsion, that's no Bueno

I think it has serious physiological changes to go from masturbating to not at all, everything from dopamine to steroid production will be altered. This difference in how things are regulated in the body can definetly have effects on OCD. I also has a lot of weird OCD-like thoughts when I started doing it, atleast a year later than all my friends. I was so convinced it was wrong.

No but I was wondering can porn trigger a reaction for your hocd?

@ejgh my therapist, who is one of like 25 nationally recognized OCD therapists told me that NoFap was a good idea for me. It only makes sense because people who have HOCD use porn to compulse and we want to avoid composing as much as possible.

@ejgh personally I believe that excessive porn consumption can lead to OCD or OC like behaviors AND HOCD will almost always lead to excessive porn consumption in a compulsive way.

I don’t deny that too much masturbation most likely leads to inbalances in hormones and neurotransmitters aswell, theres science reporting an increase in prolactin for example.

@ejgh not even masturbation. Porn is the problem.

Well, visual stimuli does affect hormones and neurotransmitters, but not as much as masturbation.

It's less about affecting hormones and more about avoiding checking and what not. Also porn addiction has been shown to alter brain activity in the sense that it can cause PIED and it alters brain chemistry, creates sexual neurological pathways.

Yesyes of course. I just refered to what I had mentioned earlier. You’re of course right.