Withdrawl or not?

Yes, this is common, I am almost 4 days in and I have been having the most intense, visual flashbacks to porn. Before I started my 90 challenge when I was watching daily and PMO, I never had a single flashback. But now, my brain is like "Here are images of everything you have seen on the web". It literally feels like there are women and men nude all around me when the flashback occurs, and they are getting more intense. I bet this is a symptom and I just gotta push through.

 

today marks my 21 days and just recently started all those withdrawal symptoms. im wanting to google names, body parts, or amything so i can see what i find thats close or is porn. I remember always doing that and the urges come. I get flashbacks so damn often and it sucks. But you really do have to push theough and the hardest thing is finding things that will motivatey iu at this stage. Im personally just trying to keep myself busy, and positive. Im a man of faith so through prayer ive felt so much better and relievd of my urges and look to the future. But more condtsntly than ever in this withdrawal time, im feeling all of those symptons basically all day lkng. IT SUCKS but i know it gets hetter

 

Now thats a good thing. The more painful recovery is, the more fucked your brain is.

 

Your brain is rewiring itself, and all those emotions you failed to deal with and pushed down with PMO all those years are coming to the surface. And you have lost your way to deal with bad feelings. What would you have done int he past if you felt this way? Likely you would have engaged in PMO. So often what you are feeling now is not new, you just dealt with it and pushed it down. Learning to feel these things and develop new healthy coping mechanisms is a huge part of recovery. It’s not just the physical aspect of things.

 

Does everyone get what TC gets or no?

 

In a non sexual way yes. But I would avoid all sexual thoughts if you can. Find something to do with your mind. What do you enjoy?