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Discussion in 'Porn-Induced Sexual Dysfunctions' started by Thisguyneedshelp, May 15, 2017.

  1. Thisguyneedshelp

    Thisguyneedshelp Fapstronaut

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    Here is my backstory. I've been PMO since I was around 14. I am currently 28. I've been trying to do this PMO journey for years now with little success and countless relapses. Sometimes it seems like I can get hard just booting up some porn, sometimes multipe times a day. Other times I cant get it up for the life of me for days at a time (like today and yesterday). Most recently for the past few months I would successfully PMO every few days maybe a couple times each day when I did. Of course, this would make me think I was fine and gave me confidence to go through with the journey. I then went on 2.5 weeks of no PMO at all. Yesterday that streak ended with a PMO but it was awful....couldnt get it up at all, felt nothing, no libido at all....same thing today even though i forced the MO part of it with porn and basically a 20% erection. Is this the so called "flatline" that I was in and just tried to force something during a stage that is normal or am I wasting my time with this nofap and I am just a person with no hope? It seems like sometimes I can get that one erection that I force through testing with PMO that makes me think it is in fact all in my head and I need to go through the recovery process but then inevitably a week or two in I get discouraged and want to test (usually to failure) which sends me back into depression. I've had my Testosterone tested to be about 454. While this seems low for a male my age the doctor assured me this was normal and not "low-T". I almost never have morning erections (this holds true for years...basically since I was maybe 16?). Am I just switching between a chaser effect and the flatline for years now or is something actually wrong with me? I guess what I'm thinking is if there are moments that I can point to in the past(always with porn) where I had what I would consider a good erection that lasted until i O'd to Porn should I be worried about failures such as today/yesterday?
     
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  2. YngwieWanksteen

    YngwieWanksteen Fapstronaut

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    That depends. You might be without hope, so yes you are a person with no hope.

    Is there hope for you to recover? Yes. This is probably the biggest stumbling block to recovery. Everyone thinks they're different. Everyone thinks it won't work for them. Everyone asks will it work for me? How the hell can I know? I don't know you. I can't run tests on you over the internet. So you told your story, you could have made it all up, right? How then could I tell you that it could work for you?

    Because I don't need to know you. You need to know you.

    You need to believe it will work. And if you don't believe it will work, then you just need to do what's recommended. But if you don't believe, you won't do it, right?

    You need to assimilate enough and of the right type of information on here to believe it will work. And it will work.
     
  3. Thisguyneedshelp

    Thisguyneedshelp Fapstronaut

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    The story is true. I guess I am just trying to look back and have hope. I have been struggling with this for years now and I never seemed to be able to make it very long before I have this overwhelming desire to "test" myself to see if it works.....sometimes it did....many it didn't. More recently I seemed to be in a phase where I was more on the it works side which would lead me to binge some....sometimes 3-4 times a day where it would work. Obviously this made me feel really good and gave me the confidence to go through the journey where I would look at myself and go "SEE...its all in your head". Then about 2.5 weeks went by and I just woke up feeling more depressed than normal and my penis felt lifeless which inevitable led me to test...to really bad failure. This obviously sent me spiraling back into a depression and worrying and now I am back at the....I need to keep testing till it works a few times phase and then try to go the 90 days again. After 2.5 weeks was I just in a "flatline" that I was wholly unprepared for? I guess this would explain why I was having a "dead dick".
     
  4. YngwieWanksteen

    YngwieWanksteen Fapstronaut

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    It will always be like that. I'm not in your head but although it's always the same situation, the urgency to test must always be the same. It must always seem dire. You know in that moment you've done it before. Does something in your head say "you better test it, this time it seems really serious"? That's how this thing will screw with you. It will make the same situation seem different every time.

    You need to buy into what you cannot know, what you cannot feel is right at the time.

    Good luck to you.
     

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