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Brain fog is literally driving me insane

Discussion in 'Porn Addiction' started by RedPillRebooter, Jun 27, 2017.

  1. RedPillRebooter

    RedPillRebooter Fapstronaut

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    After a relapse of 310 days I am experiencing brain fog like never before, I can't concentrate on anything at all. I can't do my work, can't do normal everyday task. I want to cry but I can't. I hate my life.
     
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  2. saneagain

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    You have been clean for 310 days? Did you have it during the 310 days?
     
  3. How many people in here have actually had sex in their life other than masturbation? Technically that's not even sex. I know there are married individuals on this site as well. I sense an actual fear of intimacy in many of the posts I have read. I'm not judging just noticing a few things
     
  4. Fink93

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    did you watch porn?
     
  5. SuperFan

    SuperFan Fapstronaut

    I don't understand. Did you relapse after 310 days of sobriety, or did you have 310 days of relapsing?

    If you had 310 days of relapsing, it's no wonder why you're having brain fog.
     
  6. vulture175

    vulture175 Fapstronaut

    LOL. no he had been pmo-free for 310 days.
    @RedPillRebooter : yeah the effects will last for 3 days. I think you might feel horrible like that because that was a relapse after a long streak. Many people have experienced that, they felt extremely down, regret, a bit shocked. Speaking from my experiences, abstaining from pmo for long may cause acute anxiety which brings you fear, avoidance, torturing intrusive thoughts while overpmo for long may cause severe depression which brings you cloudy mind, 0 energy, withdrawals, brainfog, nullity. Idk how to deal with them yet. Both anxiety or depression want to destroy our concentration, anxiety attacks your concentration by bombarding your mind with p images, and depression attacks by creating a foggy and cloudy sky in your mind.
     
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  7. LavaMe

    LavaMe Fapstronaut

    I only had 37 days but I felt the same after I relapsed. I have then made it a week a few times. I especially want to cry but can't. Last Friday when I PMOd it felt like my mind was going crazy while looking at P. In short I feel like utter crap. But I feel confident I just have to get through this. I think the next few days will be hard but it will get better in a week or so. All we can do is endure it. It sucks but it will get better.
     
  8. FindingAName

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    Idiot. Nearly a years worth of no pmo all so you could be an idiot and reset all your progress. A year set back all for that 5 seconds of pleasure
     
  9. I'd never last 310 days without or MO. I don't look at this as a contest.
     
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  10. Anonymous86

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    Do people only get brain fog when they abstain from PMO??
     
  11. Having worked with drug addicts in my professional life the answer is no. Most relapse happens not for pleasure but to avoid the pain of withdrawal. I gave up Diet Coke for Lent and the first week had the sweats, headaches, etc. After about 10 days the edge lessened. I can't imagine hard core drugs like heroin.
     
  12. HeadAche

    HeadAche Guest

    Mind your fucking language.
    This guy is a legend to make 310 days, your ass is like what 3- days!
    When your ass has 300 days come forward with that dirty language.
    If you have nothing good to say, shut up!
     
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  13. FindingAName

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    He deleted nearly a years worth of progress. That's a lot fucking worse then nearly acctually reaching it.
     
  14. HeadAche

    HeadAche Guest

    Yes, I know! WE KNOW!
    He feels horrible about it, more than any body else probably.
    It's called an addiction for a reason.
    There are more than 100 000 people in here, probably all of them with the same problem.
    If it was so easy just to keep a streak and 90 and then you're done, it would be no problem, everybody could do it.
    The harsh truth is, there are only a few people who go away without relapse.
    The rest go this way, relapse, challeng--relapse. It's a vicious cycle.
    It's horrible, yes, but be nice ok?
    Thank You!
     
  15. vulture175

    vulture175 Fapstronaut

    No but can be acute anxiety. As i wrote above, brain fog takes away our focus, acute anxiety can do it too. It basically makes you feel fear all the time, in every activity you do, it tortures you with intrusive thoughts. The anxiety attack may not last long as a brain fog, but the effects on us are much more scarier and might cause a relapse
     
  16. I'll keep my mouth shut. I was trying to interject a little science into the conversation.
     
  17. RedPillRebooter

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    The relapse was complicated. I know I'm an idiot I have no one to blame but myself. The good news is I didn't go on a month long binge.

    I will not fail again.
     
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  18. FindingAName

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    Let's hope you don't. For your own sake. You already know what to do
     
  19. Fenris28

    Fenris28 Fapstronaut

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    Dude, this is a support community, not a tear each other down community. OP knows that he made a mistake, rubbing his nose in it isn't in any way helpful.
     
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  20. I think the progress you've made didn't go to waste, your brain already went through many of the changes. You may feel down now but when you pick yourself back up you'll feel those benefits again and this experience will help you learn and improve yourself for the future. Don't see this as an end, but instead, a new beginning.
     
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