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Psychologically speaking, masturbating once is not considered a relapse, even if you could have been considered as having a sexual addiction or an addiction to masturbation itself without porn.
Think about food addiction. Is eating an apple considered a relapse for a food addict?
Of course not.
Eating apples non-excessively isn't considered unhealthy to medical professionals. Same with non-excessively masturbating. Non-excessively masturbating is considered normal behavior.
Words can be important. If you want to abstain from masturbation for a period of time completely to "reboot" your sexuality to something more healthy, by all means avoid masturbation for that period of time. But if you slip up and masturbate once without porn, call it a reset. You failed to reach your goals. And it's okay to acknowledged that. The word reset was derived from the action of resetting your streak day counter.
In the context of food addiction, binging on fast food might be considered a relapse. Same here.
Relapses:
Masturbating in a risky way that puts you at risk for serious repercussions, such as masturbating in public
Masturbating very excessively to the point that it negatively impacts your life in measurable ways
Skipping other important obligations, such as work, because of a compulsive need to masturbate then and there
Masturbating to porn once could be considered a relapse for a porn addict
Resets:
Not reaching your reboot streak goal and masturbating once without porn
Masturbating non-excessively
Am I saying that masturbation is good? No. I am not making a stance on masturbation in this thread. I am relaying the standards that I've learned from mental healthcare professionals who treat sex addiction.
This distinction is important because it helps mental healthcare professionals to take this issue seriously and find more solutions to it. It aides in research and keeps us all on the same page. Relapse is a medical term. Reset describes not reaching your goa