Anyone feels very bad after orgasm?

I have guilty feelings after m. It's hard to look in the mirror b

 

I'm not sure. My first response to that question would be a few minutes. But when I think about it, I realize I have a difficult time looking other men in the eye. That might last a week or two.

 

One of my friends has the same issue as you, and he recently went and got blood tests and found that he had rather low testosterone. You should consider getting a blood test if you haven't already. Low testosterone could definitely explain the symptoms, since one of the things that occurs after orgasm is a temporary down-regulation of androgen receptors in the brain. This means your already low testosterone has fewer places to bind, and so it feels as if you have even lower testosterone that you do.

Low testosterone symptoms can include low energy, lack of motivation, anxiety, depression etc.

Also..

This is just a plain bad idea. First of all, no real benefits even start during the first week of NoFap. The benefits you experience in those first few days are mostly placebo. Once you've been doing NoFap for a while you'll notice very little actually happens in the first 1-2 weeks. It's once you get past the somewhere roughly around the 2 week mark or so that the real benefits start to kick in, and once you've abstained for 1-2 months that longer term changes start to take effect.

So resetting every week will achieve nothing, and honestly defeats the point of NoFap in my opinion.

Of course, if you've quit porn for life and aren't using porn, then MO once a week is certainly a lot better than indulging in PMO ever, but if your goal is "NoFap" and not just no porn, then once a week resets are silly.

 

As for myself, I don't think I have low T symptoms. Just guilt. Furthermore, I will never allow myself low T treatment. I am a prostate cancer survivor and testosterone feeds prostate cancer. Nope, not gonna feed my cancer.

 

@Unvers : This question is weird because i thought most people would have had the same symptoms after they had been doing over pmo for long time. What you described always happened to me every time i relapsed. About masturbating one time a week, are you sure you can do that? or you might binge?

 

Sure I can do what, no low t treatment? What's better; low t or cancer? I'll take the low t. But if I could just quit m my t might go up anyway. I have a theory, an uneducated theory. When we m all the time our systems are low on a certain brain chemical. T perhaps. If we could quit this stupid habit out T would go up naturally. What a drug that would be. I think I would be a different man. Ya a man. Of course just a theory because all my adult life I m'ed. So I guess I wouldn't know. What do you think?

 

I wouldn't call a week without masturbation a reboot by any means, a streak certainly, but not a reboot. A reboot is typically regarded as resetting your sexual drives and behaviours through a prolonged period of abstinence. The minimum number usually required is as a period of 3 months of no masturbation or porn, but the actual length of time needed to "reboot" will vary from individual to individual, and in most cases, it's going to be longer than 3 months. Whether you masturbate frequently or infrequently, whether it's a habit you've had for 1 year, or 10 years, a week simply isn't going to cut it if rebooting is your goal.

I personally do not think masturbation is particularly harmful in moderation, so if once a week is your thing, then go for it. No harm in that. However, if you, or anyone else is seriously looking to reboot, then week long streaks are going to prevent that from ever happening. A reboot needs a much much longer period of abstinence than a week, plain and simple. Resetting every week while trying to reboot is like picking at a wound while waiting for it to heal. If your goal isn't a reboot, but just to cut down, then that's fair enough, but if it is, your strategy needs rethinking!

 

I thought that before and yes, I became bored of it, but unfortunately it had converted into an addiction. I MOed once a week and I agree with JesusGreen: it is not a real change. One month of total abstinence might be good for you to reset your hormones and then you can decide if you want go on or cut it to once a week.

 

Immediately after I get a rush of feeling like I could be doing something more productive and thoughts of extreme greatness entire my mind but I also feel a sense of strong depression. It's as if I feel like I should be doing something but am wasting my time with watching such videos instead

 

I think it depends ultimately on the nature of your relationship with sex. While I may be in the minority here with regards to my views on sex (I do not see things like casual sex etc as being bad, nor a hindrance to a healthy relationship with sex) I would still suggest reserving sex during the early stages of a reboot to more intimate moments with a romantic partner, or ideally even leaving it out entirely for the first month or two, if you and your partner can come to an agreement regarding it.

This is just to speed up the process of the reboot. Unless your goal is celibacy, then avoiding sex shouldn't be your goal - but initially, during the first month or two, either avoiding it entirely, or at least avoiding doing it purely for pleasure-seeking reasons, is going to help you reboot quicker. After that, as long as you're not letting it become a vice that controls you, then I don't think there is any harm in maintaining a healthy sex life during a reboot.

For most people anyway. For someone with a sex addiction, it may be best to avoid it entirely until the reboot is complete, and even then, to go back into it with caution. For someone who is in a relationship and has avoided sex with their partner in favour of their masturbation/PMO habits, sex right from the beginning of the reboot may be preferable, as one of their goals may be to resume a healthy sex life with their partner.

Those are just my thoughts anyway.