Anxiety during the 90 days

Hey guys,

I am someone that is prone to anxiety at certain times in life. By no means all the time, more like a bad episode roughly once a year or two. Between episodes I'm fine, but when they hit I can get pretty unwell with it.

I have noticed that when I try to quit porn and masturbation my anxiety levels initially increase quite a bit. Right now I am only day 2, but after the worst binge period of my life I am already feeling it - on edge, tense, unable to relax, slight difficulty sleeping etc.

I have never gotten further than about 3 weeks before relapsing and even then, that streak was many years ago, so I'm wondering if you guys can advise how long the anxiety lasts - is it something I should get used to being around for many weeks or is it usually just an initial thing?

 

I binged brutally hard this time. All those self-destructive fetishes we tend to fall into with porn addiction? I had been watching a lot of porn before but I had at least cut that stuff out, then with the binge I just went full on into the hard stuff and started having those low self-esteem thoughts. I think that's where some of the anxiety comes from, it's like if you watch that porn again you can enjoy the insecurities that it gives you.

Terrible shit.