- Safiu Kehinde
Nigerian Social Media Influencer, Martins Vincent Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan, has opened up on his struggle with addiction in 2024.
VDM, in a post on his X handle on Wednesday, narrated how masturbation cost him lots of business opportunities last year.
He also recounted the physical and psychological damages the addiction had on him in the course of the year.
“To all of us fighting addiction like myself fighting masturbation addiction, today is the 1st of January 2025. It is a new beginning. And from today, we can start abstaining.
“Masturbation did me a lot of damage in 2024. I missed a lot of business opportunities that I would have done. I kept on drawing my legs back because once I do like this, I don sleep. And once I slept, I get tired.
“You call me for business, I can’t go. Sometimes, it makes me forget a lot of things. I go to the gym, I cannot even pull the weight properly. It made me lose a lot of weight. It does to you a lot of crazy things.
“But this is a new year and I want to believe that in this new year, you can actually change something.
“If I start to go into details of what this thing made me do last year, so crazy details.
“Like I said, a lot of people are going through this that they cannot talk about. Nobody can talk about this thing on the media except myself. I will take the load for everybody.” VDM said.
The influencer also recounted paying for nudes as he urged young people who are yet to indulge in it to avoid making attempt.
“This is a new year and a new dawn. I’ve told myself ain’t gonna to nothing. I said I know how much I don lose. Not to talk of the one wey I don give babe money for. All these random girls wey go send you nudes as a streak for Snapchat.
“I know much my money take go for that one na.
“As a young boy, if you have not started doing it, don’t be curious about it. It’s going to destroy you. It’s going to destroy your mental health.
“If not that my brain is strong and I’m a very confident person, that thing would have messed me up.” VDM said.
He, however, urged those struggling with the addiction to abstain from it.
“If you are going through this, it is a real life issue. Don’t be ashamed. It’s messing you up deep down. If you can, tell yourself that this year, you are not going to be that person. You will channel those energy.
“This is the first day of 2025. You can actually start correcting those things by fighting them. Don’t go into 2025 with masturbation.
“And if you are addicted to other things as well, this is 2025. You can actually right those wrongs and you can actually stop and abstain from those addictions.” VDM added.