Cannot read, severely memory impairment, very poor concentration and focus

Do you meditate, exercise and eat healthy? Those will help a lot, maybe enough to make you stop having panic attacks, anxiety may be there but it’ll be little more manageable, maybe enough

 

I eat healthy, meditate and deep breathe, but exercise has been tough. Between insomnia and the anxiety, it's been tough to do more than go on walks. When I was feeling better a fee days ago, before this latest bout of anxiety, I was starting to lift again, but now I'm happy just to be functional.

 

Try doing some intense workouts when able. Really gets the endorphins going. Happy to be functional? Sounds like you’re improving?

 

Very slowly improving. If I need to go a mile, I've gone 10 feet. Moving inches a day, but mostly forwards

 

You lot tried concentration exercises?

 

It's definitely about porn using. I have had this problem. Porn leads brain fog, ADHD, depression, social anxiety, insomnia and other psychiatric disorders. Believe me it's about porn using. And it can make your lifestyle worse. When I quit porn in my 16, ( I had 5 months this times) everything in my life became awesome. My mood improved, depression, anxiety, brain fog, all is gone and I had mental and physical clarity. I became a superstar in my school and it gave me a lot of confidence. When I turned back into porn, everytime, it got worse everything... I had clinical depression, very deep social anxiety, ADHD symptoms, poor academic performance then. A lot of my near friends went to college but I am suffering with my memory, how can I go to University with this brain? I'm questioning this. But I saw this process. Pornography is a real addiction. And I have to say that: When I quit porn I have mental clarity, I almost have a photographic memory, my lessons got high, I had inner peace I had a lot of beautiful thing in my life and I could aware that: how quitting porn changed my life positively.

And after 5 years keep relapsing this is my second real attempt. Today a man in my course( I try to praparing for University exam) he tried to show me a nude picture in instagram. I run away in there. Because I take this seriously and as a non-religious, I know that the evil was porn. I remember that motivation, girls's looking at you, increased academic performance...

Trust me it is not too different from any substance drugs. I remember that relapses, my al nights... I hooked up PMO and then I have double exams and more than 12 hours lessons. How could I live without die I don't know but I can tell you with comfortable porn is causing all this problems.

We can do it together, just believe in yourself. Stay strong!

 

For me this all went fown hill when I QUIT porn. I'm on a treadmill right now of insomnia all night and anxiety all day. I don't know if I'm moving forward, holding in place or slowly losing. It feels like losing right now. I have zero good effects at present

 

I used to be brilliant in studies. But got trapped in this vicious cycle of PMO years ago. Now I am facing the consequences. I can't read or learn anything, can't pay any attention to the lectures and it feels like I am forcing myself a lot to learn/study even the easiest topic. I am in the last year of high school(17 YO) and I really need good grades.

No P for 2 months but gone through M & O 3-4 times. My memory, concentration have become worst. Victim to panic attacks(increased heart rate).

Really miss the good old days.

 

I get it. Try to take the long view and picture yourself pain and porn free this summer. There are a lot of guys here that have made it. This can't last forever. Grit your teeth and push on, try to do well in school in spite of how crappy you feel.

 

how are you now mate? feeling better?

 

I've had a bizarre onset series of symptoms earlier this year that are still persistent to this day, I have no idea how they came to be. I have never had dyslexia in my life, I made it through school and university with no problems on that front yet all the errors that I make during reading and writing (even when speaking sometimes) this year are typical of dyslexia. Even my friends have noticed it, I don't know if this is porn induced but it's giving me a lot of anxiety and my confidence has taken a hit because of it.