New to this

Hi, I am new to this and I wanted to thank you all for being apart of this site. I have struggled with porn/masturbation addiction for over half of mylife (Im 24). And during this time I kept it all a secret. Reading what everyone is going through is so encouraging, it helps me to see how important it is I really get past this. This habit has runied my life, and has effected everyting I have tried to accomplish. It has runied my friendships, destroyed myself esteem, prevented me from delevoping close friendships, scared my mind, damaged body, etc. I was brought to tears reading the post of other people sturggling with the same things. After many failed attempts to quit, and many specialist, I finially enrolled an a sex addicts recovery program. I have never gone more than 24 days without porn, and at most a week with out masturbating. This month I am determined to go 31 days clean. I plan to post my progress on a very regular basis. I to have felt the horrible withdraw symptoms that come with breaking these habits, and that more than anything has prevented me from taking this to full completion. I am also going to join group therapy and hope that no matter what happens I will never look back at this. My life will now become a daily journey, I have to rethink, relearn, replace everythink I used to do. It wont be easy but it will be worth it. Thank you for reading