17M, im broke, and I need some serious help.
My entire life is pornography. I really mean that in the truest sense of the word. I've been chronically online from a very young age. I got exposed to porn at 6 years old (and some of my first memories were being told off for masturbating before that age, because I had learned), and ive been watching ever since. I dont know when it started to become pleasurable, I just know (with some evidence to back that claim), that I started then, and the addiction really kicked in during the last 3 years of primary school. By the time I reached high school, I was way too far gone. I never had any friends in high school, never went to someones house, never hung out with anyone, and this is still true today. My entire highschool experience was coming home and watching pornography. On average I've masturbated about 9 times daily for atleast the last 5 years, and ive watched a few hours of porn every day on average. Nowadays if I stop even for a few hours, I can physically notice the withdrawal. Whats interesting is I have had anhedonia/alexithymia from a really young age, I cant feel emotion and trying to explain happy and sad to me is like trying to describe the colour red to a blind man, I can understand it, but I havent experienced it yet. This has led to me more recently being diagnosed with autism by a specialist psychologist. I was also evaluated when I was 3 years old for other conditions. I don't know the extent to what or why because my parents have decided not to give me that information.
I have been trying to quit since I was 15, and the longest I have ever went is 7 days. that's it. dozens of attempts, 7 days. I got a job a few months ago, and £4000 in just the last month and a half went straight to porn. This was mainly for AI generated content (I was purchasing tens of thousands of veo3 credits, I had multiple other subscriptions ect). At one point I even gave people my own age money, a highly illegal and perverted thing when you consider the content I was getting in return. I was buying discord accounts, pretending to be people I wasn't, messaging 1 person with multiple personas acting like they are different people, and a whole host of other shady shit which I wont go into for fear of jailtime IRL.
I have had about 12-15 suicide attempts between the ages of 14 and now, and I believe alot of this was heavily influenced by porn.
this is a very brief summary and frankly I have a whole host of other issues symptoms, and spending addictions that are closely related to this, but to be quite honest I just finished watching so much porn that I genuinely cant even remember existing for the last 6 hours... My brain is so fucking fuzzy and I can barely think most of the time. I used to explain this in much more depth but I cant be bothered. Hopefully this covers it.
I hope someone has advice, before I turn 18 and lose my chance in my country to fix this legally. Thank you.
Posted Feb 25, 2026, 9:11 PM UTC