People with over 90 days under their belt.

Abstention alone helps only to some degree. You need to find root cause of your anxiety and depression. PMO does make anxiety/depression symptoms worse in the long run, but it's usually only coping mechanism that "helps" us escape unpleasant tensions in us. As for very low energy levels, your brain needs time to rebalance itself. 100 days may not be enough. I had severe fatigue problems up to 4 months (120 days) into the hard mode (wild mood and energy swings). Regular vigorous exercise (exercise that makes you sweat) lifts energy level, but you really need to implement it on daily basis to get best results and you might need to wait up to two weeks to experience general energy rise.

 

I'm over 90 days. Have also had severe and immediate physical tension/anxiety after relapses on previous streaks past 90 days. I think 3 times in 24 hours was probably too much in your case. Us porn addicts or former addicts don't always realize it but orgasming is a very intense release of energy and exhaustion and things like depression are only logical consequences if it's overdone. Withdrawal has the same effects since sooner or later your body can grow dependent and pmo becomes a sort of stimulant/energy source.
The French refer to orgasm as the little death. It's both energizing and exhausting and has different effects on different people. But it's definitely not uncommon to feel exhausted, depressed or anxious after sex with orgasm.

It's probably okay to make love to the misses as long as you go easy on yourself.

 

Not sure what to say. Just overall more calm. Before I used to always be alert and try to find a way and place to do the " dirty job". Now , I couldn't care less.

Oh and more confident btw !!!

Sometimes the urges come, natural stuff I guess ,quite an effin annoying " natural" thing but meh, i ignore and move on!

 

If you have a partner, you should welcome sex and orgasm. The problem is porn, not having sex. Your brain is used to having orgasm who releases a lot of feel good hormones. I may not be right here but my belief is that you are making progress as long as you skip porn.

It took me a very long time, a lot longer than the 90 days I thought would be enough to get better.

 

Hey Brother,

I'm out 250 days. About 100 hard mode. Today for the first time I can remember my headaches are almost completely gone, I felt very at peace today as well. Sex with my wife is still a bit of an issue since my PIED went away I'm super sensitive now so I can only go for like 10 minutes.

Healing from this shit takes time. You have turn into a Jedi Knight for a while.
For supplements I'm on Butterbur extra, Ashwagan(smooths me out big time), D3, and algae oil(it's better than fish oil). The only solution is to keep going. More than one person has recently noticed a change in me. You'll get there too. Also one side effect I hadn't thought of when I started is that whether intentional or not once you cross the bridge your partner or any other woman won't be able to use sex as a weapon. It's man's greatest weakness.

Good travels my friend.

 

NoFap isn’t a cure all.

 

I still feel really down with no real motivation to work on my studies, I don't really know when is it going to stop being like this

 

Why don't you go and get some blood tests done and just check things out? Maybe you are a bit on the low side for testosterone, maybe there is something else wrong that can be easily fixed? ie - lacking a vital mineral that you can fix by taking tablets for a couple weeks.. It's worth a shot. I'm gonna go and get my blood done soon just to make sure everything is sweet.

 

I think that's a good idea. Also get them to tell you what your exact testosterone levels are.. Doctors will consider your testosterone 'normal' if it's between 300-1000 ng/dL, but 300 is about the level a 70 year old man. If you're below 500 then you'd want to try and increase it by making some lifestyle changes.

 

4 days away from getting to 6 months. Symptoms were hitting me hard since weeks 2. I think I burned out the receptors and glands from pmoing. From my experience orgasm is the worst of them all. But porn was always the reason I used to mo.

 

The problem is that you don't get enough steady dopamine in your brain. You removed one thing that got you dopamine, but have you replaced that with something healthy? Like exercise for example?

 

Maybe you should read this article: http://www.entelechyjournal.com/pulling_away_after_sex1.htm

Dopamine deficiency is associated with depression->addiction and social anxiety.
Dopamine excess is associated with euphoria but also general anxiety

"Balanced level of dopamine is necessary for good mental health. When dopamine drops, you feel like something is dreadfully wrong. Too much dopamine also leads to reckless behavior and restless anxiety, which can be quite severe."

Addicted brain doesn't have normal levels of dopamine. When you compulsively MB, your dopamine levels are too high, causing general anxiety, when you enter withdrawal and post acute withdrawal period, your dopamine levels are way too low (not enough receptors to bind them), so your social anxiety and depression gets worse.

Only time can normalize our dopamine levels, but don't expect an easy ride. Dopamine levels fluctuate during reboot, going from way to low (depression, social anxiety) to way to high (euphoria, general anxiety) and back under mean level (cause of wild mood swings during recovery). But fluctuation gets smaller and smaller over time until dopamine levels normalize.

 

Okay, mine is about 375 which is pretty low so how can I change that. What are some lifestyle changes besides I am eating healthier. Maybe need to lift heavier weights I guess..?? What else do you think helps...

 

• Eat more fat
• Consume more zinc and vitamin D
• Stick with multijoint movements in the gym
• Shorten your rest periods
• Get more sleep

https://www.bodybuilding.com/content/7-smart-ways-to-boost-your-testosterone.html

- Eat a healthy diet
- Daily exercise
- sleep hours

https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-...xpert-answers/testosterone-level/faq-20089016

- Daily exercise
- eat whole foods with a healthy balance of fat, protein and carbs
- minimize stress
- sunbath or vitamin D
- Vitamin D and zinc have the strongest evidence as testosterone boosters.
- sleep 7-10H

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/8-ways-to-boost-testosterone#section8