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does mastrbation affects intelligence badly????

Discussion in 'Rebooting - Porn Addiction Recovery' started by superstardom, Dec 12, 2017.

  1. superstardom

    superstardom Fapstronaut

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    Hello i was chronic masturbator .my career affected badly as due to mild depression ,i felt my intelligence and memory affected due to which i was always bad in stdies and in learning.
     
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  2. Jeremy_Jr.

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    I don't think so brother.. I think the issue here is more on your lost of focus to those important things due to PMO addictions. Reboots will really help to get you back and be a better version of yourself.. Keep it up bro! Be strong!
     
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  3. Mike_July_2017

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    I think PMO lowers your IQ. I have no scientific proof for it, but I strongly suspect it is so.

    For a simple thought experiment: every week you use some of the time to make plans and think about what you are doing/life in general. With PMO you have both less energy and
    less time. Thus instead of using 1 hour a week for planning (be it in short bursts of 8 minutes a day) when doing PMO daily you will only have 55 minutes and 30 of those minutes you will be a bit more tired. Thus the quality of though invested in your decision making and planning is lower - thus you take worse decisions and accumulate more pain/regret/loss.
     
  4. CTRL + DEL

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    Dopamine released from M and O affects the hippocampus in your brain, slightly damaging neural circuitry with each mental "flush".

    In simple terms: memory loss will follow. So will brain fog. The longer u M for, the more severe it will be.
    Both memory loss and brain fog are reversible. The fog can alleviate completely within 3 days of no PMO but memory may take months to return. But remember. THEY ARE REVERSIBLE. :D
     
  5. I was reading a news about a person who just won some memory Guiness Book Record. According to her memory can be trained and it took her two years of training to achieve the feat.

    I don't think chronic masturbation affects your brain wiring much but chronic it must have affected your brain slightly but not so much that you cannot recover.

    I understand what you are feeling. I believe much of it is because we don't have a very good attention span, as focussing on something proves boring, and eventually we don't learn anything which makes us feel dumb. But I don't think this is irreparable.

    Abstinence, meditation and practice will make you feel much better.
     
  6. Kexas23

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    Yes it makes you dumb.
     
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  7. Purity of Speech

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    fascinating. do you have a study to support this?
     
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  8. CTRL + DEL

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    You can take my word on it. Dad's a doc and i'm gonna be a med student. That process is fact. We dont need studies to ascertain it. Brain scans have proven it. But if you want really tangible proof, just google "dopamine and memory". Do not google "masturbation and memory" because google thinks masturbation is fucking healthy.
     
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  9. sakeen

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    PMO definitely made me dumber. Less focus, less ability to stay on task.
     
  10. after about 8 days of no O's, you might notice a difference in seeing things, and your mind and stuff. this is the healing taking place, now I have to take my advice, and go this long. not every three days .
     
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  11. Kexas23

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    I think nicotine makes you dumb too
     
  12. Muki007

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    Fapping does affect your mental clarity, for example, when on NoFap you're more sharper mentally, better short term memory and reduced brain fog :)
     
  13. MarkTT52947

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    addiction and hiding and abusing and thinking about it and doing all you do, particularly if you have a life where you need to do things to hide what you do from others is a tremendous amount of work. I have a friend who worked his way up from having just a high school dipoma to both an MD and a Phd and is a world famous medical expert and the dean of a major medical school and did all these changes AFTER he was married and had children to support. However, he says the effort to achieve these things and the life he has where he is not only running a university medical school, participating in national and international health care decisions and programs, and dealing with a wife with a disability and college age children that that is nothing compared to the life he led when I first met him 50 years ago when he was a semihomeless teenaged drug addict, that doing all this stuff was nothing compared with the complexities of being addicted.

    If I think about the mental gymnastics and the effort I have taken to think porno and get off, masterbate, get loss in various web cities or cuber sex email, or fantasies, or just sitting around thinking porno thoughts about women I see or women I have been with, that is a tremendous drain on my life and my brain and my time, especially the way that longing can infect you even when you are supposed to be doing something else.

    If I think of a time when I probably had 10,000 porno pictures downloaded and realize what a drag that was on the activities I was engaged in. If I think of all the hiding I had to do from collegeaues girl friends and my wife. then it might have appeared to make me stupid, but the reality is that all that mental energy and work I was engaging in to do this was dragging so much out of me that when I did other things, my brain was tired, my heart was not into it.

    Also, give yourself the right to feel crummy, that something is missing, and that you are healing a womb. You are physically. You did this because you got something out of it. It will take a while for the womb to heal, take a while for your to find something to take its place, take time to get used to not having to feel high from porn.

    give yourself a break and go easy, recovery is hard work'
     
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