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Can someone explain what a "Flatline" is?

Discussion in 'Rebooting - Porn Addiction Recovery' started by RamboErecto, Jan 28, 2019.

  1. RamboErecto

    RamboErecto Fapstronaut

    I just read a lot about it, but it still not pretty clear to me.
    For the experienced fapstronauts, here are a few questions that i have for you, in order to tell you what im asking:

    - What a Flatline exacly is?
    - When a Flatline starts and ends?
    - Is 100% sure that Flatline is a healty thing going on on your body?
    - How much time more or less it takes?

    Thank you for your time!
     
  2. Have a look at "Flatline" in the glossary.

    When it starts and ends varies from person to person. I've already had three or four since I started my reboot.

    It is neither healthy not unhealthy. Instead, it's a symptom. It happens when your brain, a little confused over the change, is trying to decide what to do next. (I'm speaking metaphorically.)

    Don't be afraid of a flatline. It's all part of the healing process.
     
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  3. 4DCreator

    4DCreator Fapstronaut

    1. What a Flatline exacly is?
    2. When a Flatline starts and ends?
    3. Is 100% sure that Flatline is a healty thing going on on your body?
    4. How much time more or less it takes?

    1. Flatline is brain maintenance. It is a rewarding circuit and emotional circuit shutdown as your brain must figure out different ways how to adjust to the new situation. Your brain is naturally trying to keep you happy and alive so if only masturbation made you happy brain needs to shut down and repair and readjust dopamine receptors for you to be happy with something else and in less amount.

    2. Flatline starts anytime when your brain decides to shut down for this little maintenance. It can also finish anytime when your brain did the important job. Some person can have a flatline 6 days another person constantly for 4 months. So there is no proper answer for your question in the numbers. You can experience flatline where your sexual desires shut down and your tralala is not working, and the second type of flatline is emotional hell something like depression mixed up with emptiness nothingness, can be suicidal and so on. So 2 types of flatline. They come both of them. At any time.

    3. It is meant to be "healthy" readjusting your brain back to normal state. Every brain change can bring something positive and also something negative so I don't know if it is causing any negative effects. But you have to go through flatline in order to become healthy from addiction.

    4. Everybody is different. There is no one type of answer to this question. Addicts usually experience from 2 to 5 flatlines during proper reboot. Mostly around 2-3. Flatline can show up mostly up to 2-3 years on rebooting journey. Don't expect to be ok in 90 days, Nonsense.
     
  4. RamboErecto

    RamboErecto Fapstronaut

    Thank you guys for the time you spend answering me, im already doing my homework reading it!
     
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  5. Your brain is adapting, quitting porn is a huge change mentally and physically. It will be hard, but you'll survive. No on dies from recovery.
     

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