I have been masurtbating 5 to 6 times a week for three years also with or without porn.. the only thing I did was I first quited porn and for the past few months I fapped withput porn.. Im porn free now but couldn't be able to quite MOIng. In the past two months I have struggled to quite masturbation but its hard.. I limited fapping from 6 times a week to 2 or 3 and even once per week. The longest I went was 6 days of not faping. .. my question is that is quiting masturbating also hard like quiting porn? Will I also have withdrawals like when I stopped porn????
I think they're different. Similar, but probably less intense. I dunno. That's just what I'm guessing from YBOP
Orgasm addiction is even worse withdrawals because that dopamine hit is so strong. Personally I've started to realise my strongest addiction was to orgasm and not actually porn. Yes you will go through withdrawals if you used m as an escape rather than a release of sexual energy.
You mess up your reward circuitry in you brain through masturbating and thereby induce brain fog. If it hasn't hit you already, it eventually well. Brain fog is very debilitating. When I had it, I thought it was just depression due to outside circumstances, but it comes directly from fapping.
Can back this up. It's caused by dopamine spikes and then depletion caused by orgasm. Regular self induced orgasm destroys the chemical balance in your brain.
For some guys it will come small, some other guys get it really hard. There was a post made right after this one of Ghost Rider, describing some of the heavy withdrawel symptoms he's having, he's on day 38. https://www.nofap.com/forum/index.php?threads/withdrawal-symptoms-are-becoming-unbearable.97846/
