FINALLY OUT OF THE FLATLINE! day 51 hardmode

I'm curious about the "flatline", is it normal to not feel ANY emotions (not just sexual urges/desires) towards women? I mean I see them now like they don't exists... and of course it causes me severe hocd...

Btw, can a flatline last for MONTHS?

 

I feel weird asking, but since I'm new to a lot of these terms, what exactly is a flatline?

 

A flatline is a period of depression and a somewhat suppressed libido while your brain is trying to achieve normal neurotransmitter homeostasis again.. You wont want to fap, you won't really care, you'll wonder if your dick works. Most people (like me) tend to break their recovery because they will "check" "to see" if their dick works.

 

Duly noted, and when I get to that point it will actually be very welcomed. Is there a time period to expect this to happen? I'm assuming it would be different for everyone, if it happens at all.

 

My longest streak was 12 days this month, I relapsed three times during the last five days and part of the reason was I felt depressed, somewhat dumb again (A heavy PMO addict since 2010) and unmotivated so I gave it a shot again much to my regret. Since this topic deals with flatline, I just wanted to ask that what I mentioned above a part of flatline or does flatline means just no desire for sexual activity because I never experienced such a thing!

 

I started masturbating at the age of 9, it became excessive (at least 1 per day) at the age of 11, and started watching porn at the age of ~15, and I'm became an addict at the age of 17. In my case, what do you think about the length of the flatline?

 

And in the flatline is it normal that I don't feel nearly any emotions toward girls... I don't mean sexual urges or something....I'm saying emotions...like old times when I can just SPEAK with a girl whom I like it makes me feel good, or smile to each other with a girl, and so on. Now I cannot react emotionally to these things....is it a part of the flatline?

 

Interesting, is it possible to be on flatline from the first days? Because that's what it looks like based on what you said, i thought it wasn't possible to flatline on the first days, i feel very depressed, weak, no morning erection, no interest in porn, even when i go to pee it doesn't get hard or anything, no wet dreams, if i see a nice girl i don't really feel anything at all or it's like i don't really care, this is weird, maybe i'm becoming brain dead lol.

In my case it's been 3 days only, is it possible to be in flatline this soon? (I stopped for a week two weeks ago)

Edit: Forgot to mention i'm very sleepy almost all day, don't have appetite.

 

When I'm relapsing at the flatline, it will start over or it continues? I've read somewhere that watching porn just one time is exactly the same that watching it more times...

 

Thanks man, you should have posted this a week earlier, might have saved me from relapsing again. Messaged some guy by the name of programer or something (Mr Dick in disguise) who didn't care to reply back. Looking forward to end PMO by the end of this year once and for all.

 

Flat line is the best time for me. Mine was around 30days maybe bit less.

I felt happy throughout except 2 days.

IT eliminated temptation for me and it helped me to get into a rhythm where I lowered my gaze from women so I don't fall in the trap of imagination and fap

I was wanting to check it at one point but knew it would hinder my recovery

 

I'm approximatively at the same point. But i've never experienced a wet dream halleluja for my bed ! I'm just feeling like i'm gonna seduce all the girls around me it is a very permisive state. But flatline is something irregular, it comes and go and returns so i'm waiting some 1 or 2 week and see before state that i've definitively finished with the flatline.

 

Just remember this big advice that was once told to me in regards to "does the johnson work." If your little guy could even remotely get up prior to your NoFap, yes it works. It worked before, it can only improve. If it didn't work before, why risk ruining your progress to check to see if it still doesn't work? Finish the program, then rejoice in your progress!

I never have ever had a wet dream until I hit about 50-60 days. Then I had 2. Then I haven't had any since. Flatline to me was a relief, I didn't have to constantly divert myself to other things, however it comes and goes and will continue to for most people well beyond 60 days. Just so you know. Don't ever, ever, think of yourself as beating this war, as being done with this. Only think of it in the manner of progress and milestones. The Goal, is life long.

 

Yes but "finishing" the flatline or at least reduce it to a reasonnable level mean to me. Because being out of it gives me a sort of new energy that allow me to do new things just like bypass my own mental block to go on with real girls and finally accomplish the transition from porn to real sex which i see like: 1st step way from porn to nofap recovery, to restore energy and all necessary stuff; and 2nd step from a state of full energy, recovered to a radiant sexual life.