pmo leading to lack of positive emotions??

Yes, porn affects way you feel and behave and can lead to serious psychological problems. I would recommend you patience and mindfulness meditation. Try to understand what do you feel and why, but don't call yourself monster or something. Don't blame yourself - you are on the way to be healthy.

 

Yes I had the same problem, a coworker told me the first time I did a 30 day challenge that my mood was a lot better and wondered why... so in my personal case I found that after week 1 or week 2 I would began feeling a lot more better.

So yeah, give it time and you will notice an improvement but be aware that it may take longer for you to feel things and stuff. Also don't call yourself a monster you have a disease and a symptom of it is the inability to feel things properly because of your dopamine receptors getting all screwed up.

 

Yes it numbs you up because it’s unataural. Humans were never designed to experience that type of extreme dopamine rush. So you become a robot disconnected from the world you feel nothing. It’s like being a zombie. Another analogy is when you see people walking around or sitting down glued to thier phone screens. Oblivious to the world and everyone around them. A complete lack of empathy.

 

I am 29 .. watching porn since I was 12 .
Never new I was addicted .. never heard of nofap.. just going on..
I tried to stop this and believe me you can hold it for a week.. but when weekend comes .. it's all back and you'll think it's ok to stop for 5 days and I'll watch now and get satisfaction and then from tomorrow onwards I'll try to abstain for two weeks..
Well tomorrow is Sunday .. you'll watch and fap it again thinking you'll start from Monday..
In next week you'll do on thursday by accident and then you'll think ooooppss .. ok.now it's done so I'll again start from Monday and the you'll watch and satisfy yourself on Friday Saturday and Sunday.

Now on Monday you'll think ohh I'll start from 1st of next month it's only 4 days away and swearing this time..

And it's all going to repeat and I'm next month you'll block some websites .. then stop watching youtube for some time and this sort of things you'll do whole year.

Trust me.
I found that two year ago that there is something not proper while having sex with my gf..

And after that two years i kept giving excuses that I'll stop from today from Monday from next month and many more.

Now it's been 20 days and I have stopped it all. Nothing at all.. and now I don't imagine sex at my office.. I don't imagine sex in bus... I don't imagine sex while commuting..

The secret is..
I started reading a novel. It doesn't give me time to think anything else. I come from office at 5 and get into that novel and I read it till 8 .. have dinner and again back to it.. call my friends on phone for time pass... Then back to novel.. sleep at 1am and wake up at 7 am .. back to novel.. I don't watch TV.. I don't watch movies on laptop.. infact I haven't opened laptop in days.. I read on Kindle so there is no option of just googling stuff and distraction by anything..

I chose a novel..
The mistborn triology..
It has 3 books in series.. and then three more books in series .. and then 2 books as prequel..
Total 8 books..
I have reached on 3rd in 20 days..
By the time I complete 8.. 90 days will be passed..

Also the book.is great..

My suggestion: reading is excellent habit. Select some book with long series and get yourself involved into... Also this book has no porn or sex stuff so you'll not reach down your trouser while reading it.

It helped me a lot and I already see changes in my routine..
I need less sleep.
I am attentive at office .. I feel a new energy in myself..

Try it out.

I might not have explained in some attractive fashion and with good vocabulary.. but trust me it has helped me ..
And surely will help.you.


Plus don't read other people's problem Bec that might excite you..
Don't visit this website again and again and ready other people's problems..
Like .. I am not reading your problem Bec that might excite me to do something..
Just come to your post read suggestion.. post new if needed and log out..

 

It's the same for me. I can remember, as a kid, being super excited over getting a new video game. I remember getting N64 games and feeling utter joy playing them the first time, then once GameCube came out, I didn't feel nearly as much whenever I got a new game. It always felt like something was wrong with me. Thinking back, that was right around the same time I started fapping, when I turned 12.

 

I have the same problem. I think everytime when we should be sad or when we are stressed we fap and then we feel good but the real feelings are getting repressed. When we do the challenge then many strong feelings will come out.