I'm chemically castrated and fapping and porn are no longer problems

I have to agree with the anti-depressant crowd here. If you really wanted to have no sex why not go to a Buddhist monk temple or join some religious community? You don't necessarily have to abide by the rules of their religion and you can explain to them your problem so they can help you abstain and live peacefully.

If you chemically castrate yourself you are more likely going to end up like the Elliot Rodger types of the world. It doesn't matter what drugs you are taking and how much they numb you. The frustration and hatred towards women that is slowly building up inside you, is going to make you snap for good and next thing you know, you are standing on the edge of a bridge wondering how the hell did you end up there.

This sounds like very harsh criticism and probably far stretched scenario but the point is, drugs are only treating symptoms and not the root cause of the problem. After so many years of evolution of the body and the brain, how long do you think that you are going to be able to screw your own ancient brain circuitry before something goes horribly wrong.

Putting drugs in your own body is your choice. Dealing with the explosion of build up frustration afterwards is not going to be your own choice.

 

i agree with this man.

If a person is experiencing craves those are natural, and nature is suppose to be embraces and not repressed, because that is what this sounds like. People repression sexual urges, by taking pills and who know what else later to repress it further because of some bad past experiences.

Don't dwell on the past, embrace it, accept it, and refuse fear to control you, don't let your ego control you. Life can be beautiful, but consuming something to repress something else feeling happy sound like your ego is the only thing that is happy right now.

Life is beautiful once you win the battle inside you, OCD is a pain, but taking things to make it easy is just like a drunk that goes past life fearing of living it sober.

 

First of all, he is not taking the pills to get rid of the addiction, that is a side effect. He might really need the pills for other reasons.

Second, you don't always have the possibility to treat the "root cause" and therefore need to treat the symptoms. Just ask a person with AIDS.

That Being said I have some comments to Vicisti. I understand you and have been there.

I basically thought:

1: "great! With no sex drive I don't have to run around trying to be nice or look good just to attract a girl I just will get allot of shit from as always".
2: "Life is easier, girls can f**k off, society can be kept at a distance since I don't need the money to buy clothes to look good to attract girls"
3: I have sooooo much time to do fun things now
4 etc

The problem with that, as I realized later, was that It is not normal and it might hit you in the back someday. You mess up your normal you and you can do things that you regret later when you get of the pills. You can have that same feeling and understanding without pills just by changing your way of thinking. If you do it that way it can be managed and kept at a moderate level.

I am not judging you at all since I don't know the whole story and I am not a doctor, but just think about it for a while. Is there any other side effects you see? Are you changed in any other way and if so, is that only positive?

In my case, it ended up with the doctors realizing I was on the wrong pills and that the ones I had made me hyperactive and gave me totally changed personality.

 

He is NOT taking them to control urges, it is a side effect

 

I Did not read this before I wrote my first post but that post makes even more sense now...

 

I can only see anti-depressant pills being used in the most extreme *people thinking of suicide* cases. For people to have easier time to move past that idea. Outside of that, one already knows the side effects before consuming it.

 

Anti-depressant I can't see myself ever taking and I'm a patient that had OCD for most of his life. Obsession over saliva, heart beat,walking, sexual orientation. Its war inside one's mind but its all ego craving from low self-esteem.

 

After you were chemically castrated how did it affect your mind/brain, are you still able to find joy in at least most of the things you enjoyed before being Chemically Castrated? Are you still able to laugh and be happy? Any personality changes? I want to know this because I am seriously thinking about Chemical Castration because my sexual thoughts are too strong, urges too. I just don't want the pleasures in life to be numbed by any side effects of the drugs I will be given

 

Exactly. Well said.

You want to overcome your addiction on your own, not by self medicating. This is a matter of self control and by using the antidepressants, you are relying on the side effects to keep you away from porn. In this way, you are not really addressing the problem, you are avoiding it all together.

I think that sex and sexual desire can be really uplifting and wonderful to share with the right person. It can help foster a deep sense of connection and can release alot of frustration and tension. Personally, I think it would be a mistake to eliminate it from your life just because porn addiction has become a problem. You probably have sexual desire and attraction towards others. Maybe the key to solving your porn addiction is focusing on your depression.

Seek help. There are groups that can help you. Depression seems to be the more urgent of the mental health problems you are currently facing. I hope you recover without needing to rely on antidepressants with adverse side effects. Good luck.

 

In my opinion, it isn't a success story (its actually kind of depressing) but it seems like the person in question is happy that way so I guess he might consider it a success.

That being said, I wouldn't recommend his method of addressing porn addiction

 

What the fuck are you people talking about? Strong sexual urges are a part of being a fucking man. Don't you fucking get it? Some senile seniors would kill to have your libido, and you're happy that you got rid of it? What the fuck.

Sorry but I've had my share of medications, I'm currently on risperidone and ketipinor and all they do is get me sleepy and keep my head together so I don't get funny ideas about the asshole staring at me. I planned on killing people before they put me on the meds, that's how serious it was. I fucking refused the antidepressants, no matter how fucked up I got. They got me all loopy and fired up and I didn't give a fuck about anybody. Don't take fucking antidepressants. They will fuck you up. Suffer through the dark night of the soul and come back stronger. I've been hooked on porn all my life, and I'm finally getting rid of it. Whenever I'm out and about, I look at women and think "holy shit she's fucking cute." "That one has great tits. I love 'em." "She has a great ass." I learned this single thing about myself: That's who I fucking am. If people think you're a criminal for thinking those thoughts, they need to be put away for being fucking inquisitors of the human nature. When you bed that chick who wants what you've got, she's gonna fucking sing praises to your criminal nature, because you will fucking ruin her for other guys. You will just fuck her that fucking hard.

And guess fucking what? If you keep your fucking composure and think those thoughts, the women will respond. She might get fucking nervous and avoid eye contact. She might stare you right in the eyes for and thank you for thinking those thoughts. No one will put you away for wanting to fuck that cutie. Don't get me wrong (again) but that's what women want: to get fucked by a man. Fucked. I'm not exaggerating at all. Through my short life on this planet, that is what I've learned from all my experiments with life. You want to fuck, and women want to get fucked.

I'm not against the whole love thing and spirituality that is going on in these forums, it's great and I support it wholeheartedly. I've been spiritual for over a decade. I read metaphysics, philosophy and occult literature. When it comes down to woman and man, you just have to get it on or you're getting dumped like a sack of potatoes.

 

I haven't seriously considered chemical castration myself, but when pornified sexual desire has coloured most of my thoughts, feelings, and interactions I've sometimes thought it might be nice. After a PMO binge my sexual energy is low and the absence of perversion is pleasant, but I think that rebooting is a happy medium.

 

When it comes to porn, I've pretty much seen it all. Beastiality, bring it on. All you need to do is stop wasting your cum on pixels, and start looking at the honeys that are all around you. They are everywhere. This has become too complicated. Stop wasting your manhood on pictures of shit you're never going to see, and start preserving your precious energy. Eventually, maybe six months from now, maybe a year, some chick is going to look at you and say "I don't know what I'm doing this weekend. What are you doing?" She might say "you are fucking irritating as fuck. I just want to kick you." Then she will ask you if you want to go have coffee with her. This all happened to me before I succumbed to my depression and beta shit. Stop jerking off. It will do you a world of good. Stop taking antidepressants, they will fuck you up worse. Suffer what you have to go through, then emerge a man.

Goddamnit motherfuckers. I'm sick of this shit. Just stop. Stop jerking off.

 

Smell the women. Inhale it. You will enjoy it. She will smell good because that's what she was planning all along.

 

Yeah im shocked thinking back jerking off to model like women being pounded by dogs and to a point it felt just like any other video on pornhub... FUCK i need this nofap as hard as it is

 

I have to say (although I haven't read the whole thread that I understand EXACTLY what it means to achieve relief through medication. I suffer from depression, and before I started taking medication in 2003, I had an extremely hard time battling the cycles of misery and sexual frustration that tempted me toward dangerous behavior.

As soon as I started taking Sertraline (Zoloft), I experienced a double relief: the depression dissipated and the sexual drives also sank to a manageable hum. Emotionally, it was peace. I was grateful.

For ten years or so, I continued to choose the value of the peace over the growing frustration that it was so hard to climax, and that I would go for weeks without even feeling the need. P became the coping mechanism, so that I could reach O at last. I didn't develop a full-blown addiction because it's support was effective and sufficient to help me relieve the pressure.

But after years, I got tired of needing some hyper stimulus to function, and my doctor added Bupropion, which was supposed to ease the side effect. I'm not sure (even today) that it helps me in any way.

Finally, in December of 2015, I asked my doctor about trying to come off of Sertraline, and over six months or so, I weaned myself off of it.

Everything came back--the sexual function (which after 15 years was lovely) but also the depression, with a vengeance. So last November, I started taking "Trintellix," which is relatively new. It's wonderful, but that's not the important part of this post.

Shortly before my 50th birthday, I realized that if I changed nothing, I would spend the rest of my life without sex with anyone. So I went into sex therapy, and that's been magnificent.

The point I want to make is that the medication took enough of the pressure off of the sex drive that I could deal with my shit. So if it's helpful, if it brings the peace of no frenetic sexual energy, I say, "Enjoy it." There's no reason to decide now whether it's a permanent solution. Use the respite to work on underlying stuff. When you're ready to take another tack, you can.