Whenever I stop fapping, I kind of get ill(Lack of hunger,fast heartbeat and tension in stomach plus nothing on my mind except sex) . Is this the chaser effect? If yes, then even if I stop fapping, the chaser effect will keep coming to me because of wet dreams. How do I solve this problem?
These are all temporary, all you gotta do is to just keep nofap going, that's it. All of these will go away.
Hey Mahad the chaser effect, from what I know of it, is right after you PMO or MO, your body wants to relapse again shortly thereafter. So if you have just relapsed and are trying to reboot, be mindful of the chaser effect that can thwart your following days. As for the other things that you mentioned that come without fapping i.e., tension in stomach, anxiety these things are normal during a reboot. your body and brain cannot make sense that you are not fapping anymore and is trying to figure out what to do. People reboot in all different ways. If you are having wet dreams, that is a good sign that you are making progress. As you eventually add more days under your built on your nofap journey, your body will produce less semen and will just be broken down and absorbed by your body which has great benefits
Yeah but it gets in the way of work and my studies. Do you guys have estimate as to how long these symptoms last and how I can avoid or prevent them?
Usually for me when I experience those symptoms, it was because I was edging and then I tried to resist. In other words I was preparing my body to start feeling horny because of what I was thinking about moments before. Then when the train got full speed, then I decided to stop it which was futile at that point. You have to stop the train before it picks up speed. So be mindful of what you are thinking about. Once you start fantasizing and lusting, dopamine and other agents in your brain become released which leads to sexual arousal.
But avoiding stuff like that is so difficult.Like even if you block all porn related stuff in your browser, you can still fantasize.
Ahh, there is a difference between having passing thoughts about sex and fantasizing. One is something you cant control, the other is an act of the will. Like I said picture the bouncer throwing out the lustful thought that is trying to get in your head. Dont indulge in or entertain these thoughts, your brain will get use to you denying these thoughts and it will become easier to overcome these temptations to lust. You have to develop self mastery over your desires. this doesnt come overnight. One thing I do is make small sacrifices through out the day in the moment i.e., I give up the desire to eat my favorite snack, fast from soda/coffee, skip salt on french fires,etc. You should try it. If I or you cannot give up the small desires like putting ketchup on our french fires, how do we expect ourselves to give up even stronger desires like sexual ones that are not good for us?
Giving up small desires for me is not much of a problem but sexual desires are at a whole other level and much harder to resist.
yes it takes a certain degree of self mastery to refuse sexual desires. It would be good for you and I to look into other ways on how to develop self mastery