46 days NoFap. Also can someone please explain what is a flatline?

Maledizione123 I am on the 20th day, no stimulus and no impulse, I have to watch porn, but I feel very unwell, I sleep badly, little desire to eat and yet I have no desire except that I masturbate myself I can alleviate this state of discomfort.

 

Flatlining is where you have unusually low urges. At the beginning, we have lots and strong urges. However, during a flatline the urges stop or become very little. It can also decrease mood and energy. It usually occurs between the 2-6 week period. but it changes from person to person. I don't know when it will occur for you or for how long but it will usually go away and you just need to fight through it.

 

I am yet to meet a porn addict that successfully quit porn long-term that continues to use social media casually

Instagram is poison designed to keep you sick and addicted. If you care about your well-being, stay away!

 

I was reluctant to accept this at first but as i started truly understand what sex addiction is i realized that just quitting p0rn wasn't enough. Staying away from any media that features sexualized women is essential in order to truly recover and prevent relapse. Instagram models, tiktok dancers etc IS soft porn. It triggers the same chemicals in our brain as actual porn.

 

Flatline - No libido. You feel asexual. You can still have dopamine cravings, like urge to watch porn but you have no real sexual drive. Also perfect scenario for porn escalation, so be careful.

During this period you can also have anhedonia ( inability to feel pleasure with small quantities of dopamine, in other words, pleasure with small daily things ).

 

Yup and in my case, I flatlined before quitting (which seems unusual for most people and not common).

 

During my PMO times, i did not know about Gary Wilson, PIED, Flatline...all those things. In retrospect, i was already desensitized when consuming porn. My Flatline became more obvious only when i quit PMO. First symptom was genital numbness and no libido. Then anhedonia.

 

Yeah it all hit me at once after a PMO session. I PMO'd and within two days my genitals (dick) shriveled up and I was confused. Got brain fog and anhedonia almost right away.

I went for a few months researching causes of my ailment, looking up everywhere and got nowhere until I found Gary Wilson's video and it just made sense.

 

Gary Wilson changed everything for the better. Porn really changes the physical state of our brains reward system.

I wish i knew this earlier.

 

In various series this total genital anesthesia pushed me to watch porn or have sex sometimes successfully and sometimes less, I never made the same mistake again.

 

It is a common mistake. Sometimes we also forget the problem is our brain, not a local genital issue.

 

Exactly, once I understand the mechanism, I don't intend to fall for it.

 

Yeah the total loss of libido (flatline) from quitting this shows you how messed up our reward system in our brains is..scary. Shows you that porn isn’t such a little harmless hobby *eyeroll* 5 months in and still severe flatline and Anhedonia really bad..everything is still just really blah..but I do feel it is getting slightly better..gotta just keepin on all I can do there’s no ever going back!

 

It's very true but I noticed that the situation seems to be improving, I hope that this is just the beginning of something important.