It takes 35.6 weeks of abstinence to cure your brain

We shall rise against the machine brothers throw down the porn goddess and flee!

 

There are many more factors to this...
I'm 14--- been addicted to PMO for 9 months...
Do it normally, twice a week.
Doesn't mean it will take 250+ days for me to heal.

There are a lot of factors, bro.
Like, how many times you've done it, how often, how long, etc.

 

Where in Fenix's paragraphs is this and why is this? I didn't see this.

 

I will be curious to hear your results. Be sure to let us know how long it takes for full recovery in your particular case!

 

read the whole thing man it shows it in some areas grey matter decreases when you stop being an addict.

 

Thanks for sharing this info

 

Sure, Tao, I'll follow you, so I don't forget you.

 

Also, how do I know when I'm "fully recovered?"

 

Thanks for the post bro, is very interesting indeed, I have read ybop about 6 times and there's some great information there about are brain patterns. My philosophy on my pmo addiction is basically this. it took me 24 years to create this monster, it might take me 24 years to destroy it. From some personal experience i have about two years without drinking alcohol, and the thought always crosses mind to drink, and i was a drinker for about 22 years. The only difference now is that I got more self control and I am more aware of the consequences if I go back to drinking. Hopefully I can say the same thing about pmo in two years.

 

Theres no time limit when it comes to this I believe. Some people wont even know what fully healed means since they've had symptoms for years and probably normalised over time how they feel and have underlying problems or developed problems going into withdrawal sort of like trauma in a way.

Edging (not a pun) into 20 months very soon and have only started seeing glimpses of libido since 19 months. All mental symptoms are gradually getting better and a lot of symptoms have gone. What Tao Jones said about the 3-5 year timeline is Interesting and I dont think hes too far wrong either.

I think 3 years for the absolute worst cases might be true.

 

I guarantee if you sort yourself out now at your age you'll live a prosperous life with the right mindset. Dont fap yourself into an oblivion like many of us mid twentys who grew up with tube sites.

Your recovery shouldn't be too bad I imagine.

 

You tell me when you get there. You'll know.

 

Hello zen raises a good question, what is the relationship between addiction and grey matter?

If you have already answered that question here, feel free to quote yourself,

Thanx

 

If you smoke enough weed all the grey matter will turn green 0:

 

Thanks for the post.

 

Yeah... Thanks man...

I want to get out of this shit hole quickly, lmao.

 

whoa so we should be doing the 314 day challenge , not 90 days lol

Well in my personal experience my highest streak was 135 days and that was when I experienced some changes, ive reached 90 a few times and that never really gave me much changes so I definitely think 250+ days may be required in order to really change.

However I do wonder if maybe having real sex can quicken the reboot process? because with alcohol and drugs I assume there isn't anything else you could substitute that with, but with pmo you could always have sex which is similar but also different, so I wonder whether sex will mean you can recover from the effects quicker or it will slow it down?

But thanks for posting, definitely makes sense to me personally that this reboot process requires a lot more days, nothing is easy but it will be worth it in the end.

 

I'm sitting at 212 or so days, and I can say that after that long period of rest I'm finally just recently starting to see some things ever so slowly change. I started when I was just a wee child and was doing it multiple times a day up until I was an adult, so for everyone I think there'll be a list of factors to consider after abstaining as there definitely isn't a certain time lapse until you're better or at least feel am improvement. I have been feeling worse since starting because of these major withdrawals and mood swings, but I see a light somewhere down this dark tunnel.

Obviously NoFap isn't a cure for everything, but what I'm talking about is removing my symptoms created from addiction. My anxiety will be here to stay as I've always had that, and some of my other issues too but I want the main rubbish outta here already and it seems to be taking it's sweet time.

It is nice not having those compulsive thoughts or feelings so much now to get you to go back to porn, I could just do without the lack of motivation and brain fog.