No superpowers

I always at week 3 feel superpowers kick in. This time it did not happen. My anxiety and depression is making me suicidal and I am losing hope. It has been almost 4 weeks and my energy is still low. I do not know what happened.

 

I think of superpowers as the re-introduction to normality. So, they don't actually make us super, they make us normal, so we can interact normally and feel good and normal again.

I experienced something similar to what you describe for a long time into my reboot: depression and no energy. I felt purposeless. It was because I didn't replace my pmo habit with anything good. I didn't even try to fill up that hole in my being. I finally got over it when I started excercising and finding things to do besides sit on my laptop. And to reestablish good connections with others, you have to practise! If it is awkward for you to talk to people, you need to practise Connection is key good luck

 

I don't know what to say but try not to be too hard on yourself. We're rooting for you.

 

grab on to the smallest positive thing that happens during the day and grow from there.

 

At last, someone totally gets it. The so-called "superpowers" are a misnomer. The reboot is the reboot of the reward circuit. It does not produce mystical "superpowers". What they actually are, are the normal functioning that would be there if we had not become addicted in the first place. I wish we could expunge the word "superpowers" from this community (along with the cringe-worthy "fapstronauts"). Reboot is about normal functioning of the reward circuitry (and other things).