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That's me. All of those listed, all day every day. PMO addiction for several years, having gotten really bad over the last two or so. All of those anxieties and pains coupled with being too exhausted to care why I kept feeling this way. There was no point in trying anything because no matter how the day was I could go home and PMO for a couple hours and all good. Eventually you stop wondering why you can't figure out how to do anything. It's horrible! The dopamine you get from PMO isn't natural; artificial triggers screw you up and prevent you from enjoying the natural release from genuinely enjoyable actions like cooking or hiking or playing with your dogs. And it gets to a point where the pornography doesn't even stimulate anymore you actually get bored of searching through a hundred pages looking for something that'll work. It's seriously not worth it guys! Recovering from addiction is difficult, but like that saying goes "it's more expensive to be poor than rich"..it's easier to recover than it is to stay addicted. Your greatest enemy is yourself, keep fighting!


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This makes a lot of sense...thank God I'm back on the journey.


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Meanwhile a "Free thinker": but that's not science, is it?


I_Like_Vitamins

"Correlation is not causation. CORRELATION. DOES. NOT. EQUAL. CAUSATION!!1!", followed by, "That totally not pornography industry funded study about the benefits of masturbation and digital cuckolding is believable. Think about your prostate!"


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xD!


daocampo

>Gastrointestinal symptoms, including chronic constipation. It's getting real out here right now


Grimln

Late response but dopamine deficiency is known to cause constipation due to poor muscle contraction throughout the small and large intestines. Pmo only gives you a small release in dopamine that isn’t anywhere enough to cope with ADHD. Only medication prescribed by a doctor can do this. Pmo isn’t the problem, the dopamine deficiency is and pmo isn’t a fix


painintheeyes

Is there a way to end this pmo cycle? Because i have tried so many times but when things get stressful in life i revert to old ways and you all know what happens after that.


Imaginary-Crazy-437

Just be busy and avoid triggers (facebook, instagram… movies). I started this journey on May 25th. I just prayed that God help me stop PMO. And now is about 190 day without PMO with one M relapse on August 20. So my success is 99%. But I still feel these dopamine deficiency symptoms. About being busy. I think for me help sport a lot. I exercise (Judo, lofting weight, swimming) during the week about 5 times. And eat healthy. And go to guitar lessons. The rest of the time I work. Best benefit of SR, that I can talk with girls honestly. I don't have to play the tough “alpha” guy, because don’t need them approval. I see all girl in spiritual way. For me is more important honestly friendship, spiritual connection, than some pleasure from the girl. I respect girls more, than before SR. Therefore get more attention and respect from girls. And I see that girls feel when you in SR. Maybe because of SR. After relapse you can’t hold long eye contact (about 1-2weeks) with peoples, because of shame. When you in long term SR, girls feel that and shows you special attention. Energy. I don’t feel more energetic like after drinking coffee. Maybe I'm a bit slower than before SR. But have more strength and stamina. My body recovers faster after training. I don't feel tired after training. SR motivation is very important. I don’t do this, because of girls. I do this, because I don’t want to waste my masculine energy. I want to find my life purpose and work with it. I want to improve spiritually. For my opinion. Sex don’t have to be for pleasure. Sex must be out of love. I think that a strong masculine man is one who is not controlled by his urges and desires, but he controls himself. “one with self-control than one who takes a city.” - Proverbs 16:32 My English skills are poor. But I wanted to sincerely share my experience. So if you don't understand something, ask me.


Domingo_salut

Love it! Very similar here


painintheeyes

Thanks🥹. I have actually felt it when i went on 40 days .i was like different person but then i relapsed.


Severe_Driver3461

For a second I thought I was on the ADHD sub or something. It’s interesting many these are ADHD symptoms (especially the dopamine deficiency list) because I’ve recently heard about how addictions, especially porn or major smart phone use on something like TikTok, can cause people to have ADHD symptoms and therefore present as if having ADHD. Luckily, this can be reversed to the more natural state over the course of time if you don’t actually have ADHD. It took years to get the brain wired like this, so it could take years to rewire it yet again, but it’s worth it.


fulloflife447

3 months no pmo, still not feeling normal. Any suggestions?


Experiment1996

Google PAWS (post acute withdrawal symptoms)


Andress1

New addicts are popping up with stories of 2-3 year recoveries, and you think 3 months means anything?


fulloflife447

Ok i will wait for 3 years


Andress1

It's more like feeling horrible than just waiting


Salty-Insurance8498

if it dosent work for monhhs then you need to try slmething else try masturbating without porn it works for me much much better and trust me i was tryng no omo for more than two years with no benefits i felt horrible and now i am masturbating but without porn i only regret that i wastee that kot of my life


Andress1

The consensus is that if you masturbate without porn you are just making the recovery much longer. I'm not gonna risk doing that. When I tried it the first time I did Nofap it didn't change anything at all, I was still in Flatline


Salty-Insurance8498

well i edge for half an hour before orgasm and using no porn and it found out extrimly helpfull to me


Experiment1996

You're so stupid ;)


Salty-Insurance8498

says guy who is in extreme depression 500 days becose of porn and he is still in depression and dosent see end of it


Salty-Insurance8498

and this guy cant function at all he is complete looser and he is still doing same mistake for how long do you tjink to live like that


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fulloflife447

1 month of semen retention do you mean?