I am 22 years old and have been masturbating for 8 years. At first it was curiosity, but then fun, until I did it several times a day, especially when I was nervous before the tests at school. I started doing this a few months after my dad died in an accident, and now I want to get out of it. I am not gay. There are times when I can last even a month, but then something breaks down and I come back to it. It is often accompanied by a lot of stress in college. How can you get out of this?
Mr. Sławek!
First of all, you should know what your personal reasons are to free yourself from masturbation and what exactly you want to free yourself from. Is it guilt or some obsessive thoughts or something else? Dealing with a habit alone is unlikely to be effective. It is important to discover what it is needed for, what emotions it involves. In your letter, you linked masturbation with the death of your father, with nervousness, and with stress. Maybe working with these memories and emotions psychologically will do more to you than simply fighting masturbation, actually fighting yourself. Regards
Józef Sawicki
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Józef SawickiA specialist in individual therapies with many years of psychotherapeutic experience. In clinical work, she deals with psychotic patients. He is interested in the philosophy of the East. More at www.firma-jaz.pl.
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