Day 75…feel mentally worse then before..no libido/sexual feelings..still the flatline?

Do you exercise any? Weight lifting and cardio? I've never been at it long enough to experience a flatline so I just don't know about that. My energy just keeps building until I feel like I'm going to explode. Did it do that for you and then flatline or was it different?

 

From personal experience idk. From what I've read it can be and varies per individual. I'm really just starting and have only only made it 7 days. Today is the first time really trying to quit for good. One the 7th day my sex drive and energy are so high I about can't sleep. I'm interested to see what happens later... I could get in flatline we'll see.

 

You probably just need longer to recover since you've been doing it so long.

I was on day 47, my longest streak ever, and I just relapsed hard this weekend fml. Keep going, I'll be right behind you! (75 days behind lol) Don't relapse like me!!

 

hello brother...

let's ask a different question... would you want to use porn and masturbate using it if it had no consequence? the chances are your answer is no. just forget about the benefits, forget about the flatline. if the question is porn or no porn and you want no porn, then that's it ! problem solved right ?

 

Hey buddy keep in mind NoFap isn't a cure all for everything. There maybe other issues you need to explore.
I had an orgasm with my partner last night (first one in about 30 days) and tbh I didn't really enjoy it

 

Man, I'd give anything for a 75-day streak. And to be honest, flatlining sounds pretty good when compared to being in the throes of the addiction. That being said, I feel for you.

Everything I've been reading has talked about how rough flatlining can be. How it's just this waiting game - being in purgatory with no sexual drive - while your brain resets. And I've seen a LOT of talk about how it can go on for a while. But the long-term success stories people have shared have described this period and how it was all so worth it on the back end.

Remember that this is just one more step in the progress. Remember that you didn't develop this addiction over the course of a couple of months. It took much longer for that to root itself in as deeply as it did. It took a long time for your brain to slowly wire itself incorrectly. So believe also that it will take a while to put things right.

You're doing awesome to have caught this so early and are working so hard to rid yourself of it. You've used patience to get where you stand today. Keep using it to reach your next goal.

Strength and peace today.

 

- Your brain produces a neurochemical called dopamine
- Dopamine is responsible for feeling drive and pleasure
- Your brain likes to keep dopamine levels at a healthy balance
- Watching porn produces levels of dopamine way above what is considered natural
- Over time your brain offsets this by producing less dopamine of its own
- Eventually your brain will just stop producing it altogether as it has no need as you're getting more than enough of it from porn
- When you quit, you are taking away your external source of dopamine
- Meanwhile your brain still isn't producing any
- Once you "run out" of the leftover dopamine from porn, you now reach a point of dopamine deficit
- This is when and why the flatline occurs
- How long it takes to come out of it will depend on how long it takes for your brain to reach homeostasis and start producing it again by itself

People underestimate and underplay the damage that long-term porn-use can do to a person so they'll insist that it must be due to something else. Don't listen to these people. Just stay the course, stay away from porn and at some point it will pass.