l-tyrosine might help flatline

Hey, i’ve taken L-tyrosine before gym, before basketball, during work and for ADHD and it really does help to improve focus and positive mood.

L-theanine also (extracted from green tea) helps to relax and de-stress.

My own porn PMO episodes have often been at times of low energy, fatigue and late nights.

Supplementation and Good Diet must surely create a stable foundation for a healthy individual and a mentally strong individual, capable of resisting his own temptations time after time.

 

Experimenting on yourself is generally a bad idea. Talking to a professional is a good idea. Reading scientific articles is also a good idea, but only if you don't conduct any experiments on yourself.

 

Can anyone else here vouch for l-tyrosine working through flatline?

 

I am skeptical of anyone kicking an addiction and it’s withdrawl symptoms to resort to covering it up with other drugs. Anyone thinking of resorting to other drugs for flatline needs to realize it is part of the recovery. It is a sign that your recovery is going correctly. It is part of the healing process as your brain returns to normalcy, to equilibrium, and should be embraced as a badge of honor. To strike balance, the pendulum has to swing in the other direction. So from hyper stimulus from excessive PMO, the swing or over correction, is flatline. It is a reflection of you on porn but without the dopamine hit. The unfeeling, careless apathy is the person you have become. The pendulum swings back to the center, and you begin to feel again, and become in control of your life. With the years youve spent abusing PMO, what is a few weeks of flatline? It’s nothing more than a bump in the road, as you accelerate into living a better life. It is temporary, and not permanent. It isn’t something that needs treatment. Rather than spending time curing flatline, something that will pass, focus on educating yourself about your addiction and what new steps you can take in your recovery.

 

@NF4L is right: flatline is necessary for recovery. It's where your brain rewires back to it's healthy state. I don't know why you'd need to take drugs during flatline though. I thought flatline is where urges are the weakest. Maybe if you want to have sex but I'd argue that there shouldn't be any sexual activity whatsoever during flatline. Any sexual activity during flatline will make the rewiring process take longer.

 

I agree with the above comments about reliance on drugs to help with porn addiction/during flatline, however i think its a bit of a bold statement to call tyrosine or any amino acid a drug. It comes from natural occurring plant and animal sources and if u eat chicken, milk or bananas - you are consuming tyrosine with it!

I dont think tyrosine is a solution to the problems of pmo, perhaps more so, its one of the ingredients that you can include in a balanced healthy diet, to help feel good and enjoy pleasures of life outside the prison of PMO during any and all phases of recovery.