Real Effects of POM

I think most of these things vary greatly person-to-person. I think there are quite a few people with PMO addictions that still function just fine on a social level.

Also, the idea that your skin becomes dry, your eyesight starts going, and your hair starts falling out are not scientific facts. Those are myths. PMO doesn't have anything to do solely with nutrition. You can PMO 4 times a day and still be physically healthy.

 

Also:

• You are agitated most of the time
• You cannot meditate or workout as well as you should
• Your attraction to girls weakens greatly
• You become depressed
• Your memory gets weaker
• Your mind is not clear and focused enough to make you dream as natural living things do, let alone dream vividly
• You lose your confidence
• You lose your discipline
• You lose your willpower and motivation
• You will hate everything for not feeling anything towards them. In other words, become numbed and get frustrated as a result

Masturbation is a vice and no one who wants to be a great human being should do it. If you want to be "normal" - in other words, a zombie, go ahead and do it.


And by the way, Pornneveranymore, my balding process has become much slower ever since I started nofap. Eye sight does get blurry, and skin becomes pale and sort of lifeless compared to how it is when you are on nofap. I've also noticed that I sweat much less when I masturbate, which relates to how my inner body temperature decreases. You also have a weakend immune system when you masturbate.

 

Perhaps the various effects, negative or positve, are debatable and I too am certain it depends a lot on the individual and other factors in their life experience.

I will absolutely attest to one thing you stated right off the top, Cute Hipster, and that is, I am a slave to masturbation absolutely! I am in day four of hard mode and the mental and physical effects of withdrawal are real, as real as anything I have ever experienced.

I am a recovering alcoholic with over fifteen years since my last drink, and I was damn crazy for sure for the first several weeks and maybe months of that withdrawal. This here, removal of a lifelong (and I'm 52) habit of masturbation, has my system and my brain in total revolt. As I've been typing several times in these responses, my mind is not my friend when the thoughts kick in.

God bless everyone here, and thank you for bringing your experiences and success in these posts. Just can't say enough how valuable I find this resource, and the hope and inspiration I get. Thank you to everybody!

 

Great list. I definitely noticed the weight loss one when I stopped. I felt like I was putting on extra muscle - probably because I was eating more and doing more exercise, and not fapping all the time instead!

 

Yeah, this is what I'm getting at. An absence of PMO itself isn't going to automatically make you healthier, but when people decide to quit they usually make lifestyle changes like eating better and working out.

 

This is what I have experienced so far:

- Most women are way more attractive
- My wife is totally HOT and I desire the hell out of her
- My skin is way more oily
- My gym gains are amazing, I have been working out exactly the same for years, I changed nothing in my routine and had large gains
- Way more energetic
- Way more interactive with people (I have never been shy but now I am acting more like an extrovert)!
- Calm, a calming I have never had since I was a young child
- Peace, related to the bullet above, hard to say
- Vivid dreams, mostly with a meaning I can usually understand after waking up
- Not being hungry all of the time, when I eat I get full and stop
- NO MORE ED or DE!
- Night and morning wood
- Rock hard Hard ons (with wife, I don't get myself hard anymore)
- No longer a preoccupation with sex, I do think about it but not near as much
- Women talking to you way more, some sort of comfort or just some weird need to want to talk with you
- I stand up straighter
- Better feeling prostrate
- Have to pee less, hold it longer

Now some of these can certainly be placebo effect, but there are some that are not. I think MO really zaps you, when I used to PMO and MO I was always hungry, almost starving, now, I am fine

 

Thanks, jbastoniv, a great list of benefits there, I believe you, I want those things and more, and it's giving me a sense of renewed hope and commitment to the process. Since early February the longest I have gone is, like, 11 days on my own. Last week I joined up here because I saw the opportunities for support and accountability, and my level of desperation is such that I am prepared to go to any lengths for this. Looking forward to whatever comes along with abstinence from fap and sharing about those experiences here in my journal thread and others!

 

Thanks everyone for the post guess I learnt new things that would help me.