Today I complete 45 days of nofap. No benefits so far. I have an extreme anhedonia and severe social anxiety that has not improved so far. Hopefully it will get better in the future. But I'm losing a bit of hope that nofap will help me in those things. But getting back to porn is not an option, anyway.
My sleep has been bad the couple weeks. Im waking up in the middle of night, at 3 or 4 am. My diet is the ketogenic diet.
Hang in there man. I like your honest assessment and straight forward approach. Is it possible you're having what some of the people here call "micro relapses", where you drift off into fantasy or social media triggers that you don't recognize? I'd like to hear how your journey goes. I had a pretty solid streak not too long ago (close to 60 days) but it was ruined by some bad habits I kept during the streak. I got some benefits towards the end but nothing that jumped out at me as an "Oh wow!" moment. I'm starting over today, yet again.
Hi, mate. I've been avoiding fantasies and I installed blockers, so I'm not using social media. I might be having pretty hard withdrawals/flatline. I guess 50 days is not enough agaisnt an addiction of more than a decade. I wish you good luck again. Installing blockers and sending the password to my sister helped me a lot.
You are probaly going thruough withdrawal,but that is a positive sign that your body is adjusting just keep going it will be all worth it in the end,im on day 40 i havent been feeling well also but i tell myself that this is a phase it will pass.
if you look at the PAWs thread you will see it takes and average of 1 or 2 years to get rid of nofap symptoms completely
I'm on day 42 and I think I might be going through withdrawal as well. The first couple of weeks I felt a lot more positive, but then my mood steadily went down over the past few weeks. Normally I might think it's just stress from school or something like that, but it might be too consistent and long in duration for stress. If it's withdrawal then that's actually hopeful.
