Lifelong battle with OCD, anxiety and mild depression

What is your OCD about?

 

You are spot on with this. I am currently in a long term relationship and whenever I have sex with ejaculation, it is followed by:

Anxiety
OCD
Feeling dumber
No motivation
Irritable
Lazy
And the list goes on.

It is not placebo as I have experimented with this over the past 2 years and it is like clockwork. Whenever I ejaculate, in the following days my brain is on a mission to find inexistent dangers and focus on them obsessively. After 2-3 weeks it calms down and I see things in a more cool and collected manner. Highly recommended to retain your semen if you suffer from OCD or anxiety. i have suffered it for more than a decade and I had days, weeks and even months of just pure mental pain, feeling like I will never be free of these obsessions and live a normal life. Hopefully more people read this and get healing theough retaining their semen.

Best wishes,

Alex

 

Good question.

What I noticed is that after a few days a little anxiety is coming back but nothing compared to the first two weeks like after a relapse. I have some grey days, but overall I feel much better and more in control of my mind and my anxiety.

 

All good questions. OCD is anxiety-based, but focusing on a specific thing. Sometimes I have a specific obsession, sometimes I worry about general things. I don’t know for sure all the time that this is OCD and this is anxiety and this a real worry. But talking to other people helps me get their opinions/perspectives, so I decide afterwards if this is something I should worry about and even I do worry about it, what can I do about it?

What’s your anxiety/worries/OCD focusing on?

 

Same here, it switches from one to another. I would:

Refrain from all ejaculation, no porn
Accept all those thoughts and scenarios and start to let go, your brain is a muscle that you trained to worry, and now it’s doing just that. The less you worry the easier it will be for you to worry less in the future. To retrain the worry muscle you need to accept all those thoughts, so your brain will stop focusing on them. I know it’s easier said than done, but acceptance coupled with semen retention works for me.

I’m no doctor so this is not medical advice, but this is what works for me.

 

Meditate
Workout
Breathe deeper
Accept it, you have no other choice but to let it come and go

It fkn sucks, I know. This is our punishment for all the self indulging we did for so long. And it sucks because I have friends that still use porn daily and don’t experience anxiety like we do.

Keep going.

 

Anxiety has a lot to do with porn. I am sorry for you, in my case I was lucky to have all the emotional support I wanted and STILL because I was abusing porn, I was full of anxiety. How long is your streak now? I’m not trying to convince you nofap is the holy grail, you’re free to do wtv you want dude.

 

As I mentioned before, I am fully blaming my mental health issues on porn, because I had no other catalysts or causes. It might be different for other people, pretty sure life experiences are part of it as well. However I’m fully convinced, no matter what happens in life, porn won’t help (for me).

 

Lol 12 days?

It took me about 3-4 weeks to notice some improvements. Months to have a general better feeling and i’m going on the 4th year now since i started nofap. It’s gonna take a longer time than that.

 

What’s pssd?

 

It takes much longer than a month. You will see gradual changes, but the moments of beauty you feel at times are worth it.

Also the feeling of energy and attitude of not giving a fk. If you do nofap for a year, you’ll look back and think of your current worries as a waste of time. Up to you, though

 

Why would it be back to zero? Your brain is rewiring and less frequent ejaculation allows it to do that faster.

Nofap will allow you to be mentally stronger and in time you will not worry about stuff that you worry about now. Anyway dude, best of luck with your journey!

 

Never heard of pssd before. You can either do nofap or not do it. The choice is yours. Good luck and come back to let us know.