For those of you going through Withdrawal/PAWS

I believe it. I know former heroin addicts.

 

Oh,

I have beer thru this for sure. I had to look it up. I didn't know it was called psychomotor retardation. I have had meetings where I have had to process a colleagues simple question for a lot of time before answering.

 

Oh I can relate. My light and noise sensitivity got so bad that I didn't want to leave the house. I couldn't stand going to restaurants with my family. That has basically subsided now but I'm still having other symptoms.

 

Big. Im a lurker of you. How sevete was you adiction? I mean . How often do you use to fap per week? Im going in the same hell just in 40 days.

 

Going through this list of symptoms and realizing that it was why I was feeling horrible is disturbing. I was addicted to videogames and weed but it didn't threaten to destroy my life. I didn't even realize how certain symptoms , like psychomotor retardation (where my concentration in class became virtually non-existent), were all linked to porn addiction. I'm telling you guys, we are at war with the Devil and his demons! Why else is it so painful to give up these vices?!

 

Oh my God, then I'm in big trouble. I've been in 3 or more times a day mode most days for at least 15 years, maybe even 20 altogether. But I do think some symtoms like anxiety, depression can't be only part of PAWS. I believe many of us had some unresolved childhood trauma, causing stress, leading to anxiety and later developing depression. I can can see clearly now that compulsive binge MB and PMO were my coping mechanisms to escape anxiety and depression. Removing PMO fix after long, long years of numbing negative emotions with it, enabled all those buried stressful emotions to reemerge on the surface. That being said I'm not saying all PAWS can be explained by preexisting trauma, long term frequent PMO can f... our brain chemistry by itself for sure.

 

I have this too sometimes man...
Also that a sound keeps ringing in my head. The sound keeps repeating in my head. Not literally though. Feels like my head is a giant gong that resonates when someone suddenly raises their voice or puts down a glass hard on the table etc...
Not always though.. It comes and goes. And if I focus on it, it tends to keep ringing in my head longer than when I don't

 

It was a high average of consumption. But when did you start to improve the fog?

 

Hi Big Lebowski (and anyone following thread),

I have been off porn for 5 years now. I occasionally masturbate, probably once a month.

When I was watching porn it would be at least everyday and sometimes twice a day for approx ten years.

I am still suffering from depression, anxiety and all sorts of mental anguish.

Is it possible that I am suffering from PAWS, even 5 years after quitting porn?

Let me know guys.

Thanks

 

Does anyone of you sometimes have a problem with fantasizing? I mean fantasizing and imagining what you want to happen. Sometimes it is very tough for me because it happens, for example, when nothing gives me pleasure. Sometimes I fantasize about women who I like but not sexually. It just happens when I get infatuated. I am addicted to caffeine and it happens to me when I have a worse day, regardless of the consumption of coffee, and sometimes when I lack stimulus e.g coffee. It's tough because sometimes I have no desire to do anything and instead of thinking about what's here and now, I think about a nicer future. Sometimes I have no problem with it.

 

Did you finish rebooting by now?
How many days you have by now?

 

Yeah it is a part of withdrawal symptoms. You need to stop pmo completely for a full reboot.

 

No. I’m on 424 day of my reboot. I recover very hard in this case.