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Why giving up porn feels like losing your only coping skill

I'm curious about trying NoFap but I'm also scared that without porn I won't have any way to deal with stress and I'll fall apart.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The artificial support has become so familiar that natural resilience feels uncertain, creating fear of facing life without the learned escape.

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