Flatline: It is really dreadful

Day 143 for me still no libido and sex drive coming back for me at all..it’s getting frustrating. Gunna be like Gabe Deem and be 6+ months for me I’m sure. #Trusttheprocess

really sucks too this girl at my gym has been really making a lot of eye contact with me and coming by me a lot and feeling literally asexual has me not wanting to pursue her at all it really sucks man..still so mad porn ruined me like this

 

That sucks man but remember, it is only temporary. You WILL heal and there will be plenty of opportunities to hit on attractive women once you do.

 

Ah man. The flatline. I'm there too. Can relate to every word of this. It's so horrible I feel I'm very close to getting out of it. My mind is horny but my body has no response whatsoever. I'm feeling great other than no libido, morning wood is 6/7 out of 10, and when I do O – it's not pleasurable. I barely blink!

Nothing we can do but deal with the stress of it in healthy ways and stay on track! There are so many girls man. In your 20s, 30s, 40, 50s, and 60s+ there's plenty of time to meet women!

 

Very relatable and true!

Actually one of the catalysts that caused me to finally say enough is enough and quit PMO for real, was when I was hooking up with a super hot girl for a one night stand, but I had performance issues. Ended up blaming it on the alcohol but I regretted not being able to fully enjoy being with her that night because I had a lack of sensation down there, despite being so attracted to her!

 

“My mind is horny but no response” that is exactly how I’m feeling!! Like I want to approach cute girls and everything but I feel no JUICE and sex urge to do so….but yet MENTALLY I do..glad I’m not alone in that!

 

exactly my situation. Had a stay over with a girl in June of this past summer and she was sooo into me and I was into her yet “downstairs” wasn’t excited enough for it and all we did was make out and I just know she wanted me to advance it and after that night I said I KNOW this is a problem and need to fix this…day 143 for me.

 

Yep it sucks lol. Good for you though sticking to your streak and getting to day 143! My issue happened in July but I only maintained a streak for 39 days before relapsing a couple times. I am now on day 42 of a new streak and this time I'm not stopping!

 

streak ending did you watch porn? I’ve mastur’d 3 times but all just physical sensation and nothing visual..the hyper simulation of porn is the real cause of all our issues. Masturbation is a natural bodily process is it not? Obviously you can overdo it I’m sure but the porn is when all of these issues started coming to light

 

Yes, I fell back into my old porn habits. I think MO is fine, but for us guys with PIED it is probably best to go hard mode until were are healed.
That said, you have only M'ed 3 times which is not bad over such a long span of time. I'm sure you will be healed soon.

 

same just emotionally FLAT is best way I describe it and nothing has really changed in my life besides of totally giving up watching porn so I’m 100% attributing it to this and this talked about flatline process and “annehondia”

 

I like this video if y’all haven’t seen it..

 

100%. I've been dealing with this for years. I've dated women, had them itching for me to take them home with me, I do – we kiss but then I don't feel any excitement, they get freaked out by it, and then they leave. This has left some mental scars as it has happened nearly 20 times over the years.

At first I thought it was nerves, then I thought finasteride had ruined me forever. For years, I thought I'd broken my sex drive forever and I was too scared to google it in case it confirmed my fears. I basically lived a half life for years waiting to magically heal. But I never made the connection that I was ok with porn! Even with porn sometimes, I struggled to get hard.

So finding Gary Wilson's ted talk changed my life. I nearly cried I couldn't believe porn was the issue; so obvious now. BUT I stacked this process so many times as it took months to see progress. There wasn't any mention of PAWS on the forums when I first looked so I thought something else was wrong with me. I was pretty much healed but then being alone during covid made me relapse. And then I was pretty much healed last year but the libido went through the ROOF and I relapsed again.

Not making the same mistake. You will heal guys. Honestly, a few times I've had that lightning libido return like I was 18 again. Jus just be prepared for that and don't relapse!

SO many times I've taken gorgeous women home with me and had a nothing but gummy worm penis for them lol. It's so painful and shameful, you have to laugh at it! It sucks. I still see some of these women from time to time. It's rough. I can't let it happen again.

 

It's actually super encouraging to hear that your PIED had gone away during your streak with no PMO and that you had an insane libido!

To have the libido of when I was 18 again sounds like a miracle lol. I could just see something so tame like a girl in a low cut top and that would be enough to get super hard and libido to 1000 haha. Now, it takes more and more visual stimulation in order to achieve even half of that libido response, as many guys here probably also experience (needing more extreme types of porn etc.)

So ya, I hope we all heal and get insane libidos again!

 

It happens slowly, annoying slow. The first time it happened, was on about 120 day streak with some cheating in there, not the cleanest streak. But this girl I've always had a crush on grabbed my arm as we walked home together and I nearly ripped a hole in jeans hahah. I relapsed that night!

The time after that I was on 5 month streak with 1-5 MOs in there and it came back the day after an MO.

All the times I've recovered, libido was the very last thing to come back.

 

yeah I’m just set on no PMO now and totally resetting everything and just be 100% ready to go with an actual woman when the time is right and I feel it!

 

back into the turtle shell..man I feel that like totally it’s like DEAD I could be with a 10/10 and I would be like “meh” that is such an emasculating thing to feel..definitely this journey is a mental F!