The paradox of the recovery benefits

When you use excessive masturbation, you usually do it as a means to get away from your emotions, or to fill an emptiness inside. When you stop masturbation, you need to face this, and you might learn one or two things about yourself. Moreover, you need to replace your bad habit with a new, good habit in order to fill the void in your daily timetable.

Once you do this you might realize other bad habits of yours, replace them with other good habits... and watch your life improve.

That's how NoFap and this whole self-improvement thing are, indirectly, connected to each other I suppose.

 

Trust me...you sound too concerned by numbers. There is no instant dividend, no instant gratification on this journey.

PMO isolated you, make you feel bashful anyway.

The benefits are plenty, YMMV. You are right, some benefits, like self-confidence, might PARTLY come from the fact that you set a goal and manage to accomplish it. This is real.
Reaching goals in a powerful therapy. But there is also dividends on the "brain re-wring" side of things.

PMO deals with brain connections, reward circuits, etc. A downward spiral emotionally.

I started to get rid of PIED after about 20 days. Its easier to heal from it if you are older and didn't start watching porn during the high-speed internet era, or so they say.
But I'm married, so I can't speak for performance anxiety. After being together 18 years, If I was to have a little ED, that would make me feel bad a little ,but nothing compared to the fear of dating a girl and don't be able to get it up.

I completely stopped to watch porn, completely stopped masturbating, but I have real sex. My erections are back in full force. No more loosing momentum during prelims etc.
But your situation is a little different. I totally stopped fantasizing and wiped porn and sex of my thoughts.

I think that helps a lot with the re-wiring when there is no more stimulation outside the bedroom. The mind learns to re-focus on other things. work, talking to people, do something that you like. Not staying at home in front of the computer all the time.

Your penis WILL heal, but the major contributor to that is mind "wellness" and "cleanliness". Stress is an erection killer. Find healthy stress fighting/coping-mechanisms.
stress re-route the blood towards the major organs in the torso...extremities suffer!

 

It fixed many things for me. Unhappiness, not belonging, not being listened to and feeling like I didn't matter, being moved, expecting to fit into a new family, being picked on and bullied, not having a girlfriend and sexual frustration. It lifted tension, stress, worry, anxiety, not sleeping and eased the pressure.

So expecting to stop something that did so much is/was no stroll in the park and meeting the real me is great yet terrifying. No more pretending, lying, hiding or being what I'm not.