P.A.W.S. - what are they, cure, duration

hey buddy please go and read this (and other) whole thread about the paws. Also google "crawlingordie nofap" and "crawlingordie reddit". This guy is doing very good today. He quit pmo 6 yrs ago

also lookup "darksektur" in these forums, very helpful

just keep at it and never go back to pmo

 

Yeah it's very frustrating how long the reboot process will last. Your life has to put on hold until you back to normal.

 

Thank you man. I have gathered quite a few paws success stories over the years, but my brain just always doubt that im going through it because it hasn't gotten better after so long. But then again i really did mess my brain up, do you believe its reversible with more time? Some paws sufferers just say they snap out of it some time even after feeling shit for 2 years or more..

 

Yes I definitely think so. I also know these dreadful thoughts and feelings like its never gonna end. But it has to, by definition. The longer we abstain from pmo, the better it will get

 

I mean there's got to be a reason why i felt so good before the flatline hit me every time i abstained in the beginning. I guess i just gotta keep going.

 

Exactly

 

Crawlingordie talked about how he was prescribed medication from a psychiatrist in order to function again.

 

If I flatlined on the second day does this mean the flatline will be over sooner?

 

Yes but if you look up his last post you can read he was much better after 500+ days (but still not there yet)

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoFap/comm...urce=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

He took the AD's for less than a year

He messaged me via PM on reddit last year, he is doing great right now

 

Wish I could feel 30% of what he wrote right now man....

 

Do i understand it right that you can only say you have paws if you finished 6 months.
I quit porn more than 1,5 years ago and am now on a nofap streak at day 112.
I had mood swings all the time since i stopped porn but still fapped. Somtimes daily and sometimes only after 7 days or less.
I wonder how long it'll take and whats different from paws symptoms and normal acute symptoms?
I havent read everything gere because it's a long thread

 

Day 56. I don't remember ever feeling so fatigued in my life. Brain fog is also persistent. Last night I went to sleep around 11pm and mysteriously woke up about an hour later with semen all over my sheets. The strange thing is I couldn't remember having a wet dream or the feeling of orgasm at all, but I did feel more relaxed than usual. I went back to sleep and hours later, I woke up again and have been feeling exhausted ever since. I'm currently laying down in my bed with absolutely no energy to move my body whatsoever. I think sleep disturbances are the hardest part of the reboot for me. I can easily go to sleep, but I'm constantly being bombarded with vivid dreams and I always wake up a few times at night after just 2 or 3 hours of sleep. I honestly can't remember the last time I had a good full night sleep and woke up feeling refreshed in the morning. To me sleeping has the opposite effect. I go to sleep feeling relatively fine and wake up feeling terrible. Anybody else can relate?

 

Yep!

 

I read a reference to it earlier in thread... Can anyone relate to this paws symptom?

when I’m feeling really bad, natural rewards like exercise and eating rich food make me feel much worse...... so I end up eating and doing little.

when I’m feeling ok these non sex rewards don’t do anything for me good or bad.

when I’m having a rare window of feeling good. Exercise and eating rich food give me a sort of high - good feelings.

like the state of my sex reward dysfunction governs my response to other rewards.

 

Hello Everyone,

Its been a while since anyone posted on this thread. Hope everyone is doing great and surviving PAWS and pandemic. Also Ramadan Mubarak to people who are celebrating. So, I just wanted to update everyone that my PAWS are still ongoing. But since the month of fasting is here, I will be fasting for next 30 days consecutively for about 17 hours everyday. I have heard many people here claiming the benefits of fasting and how it can speed up the healing process but I could not never do it. But since now I am under a religious obligation to fast, for which I am actually excited about for the first time in my life, I shall report about it in about a month if I saw any improvement or not.

Also I have reached another milestone i.e. 1 Year without P and M.

 

No question about it man.. The sex addiction is the worse because the system is so dependent but can rewire and retrain and get supplement. I am day 16 and don't know anything except I want to be sober today and hope I can accept it may be a 2 plus year reboot for me. Ughhhh. Lol.

 

Great share bro.. Very heartfelt and honest and real. I hope I keep the serious understanding about the process and it's no joke.

 

Congrats on the year. Damn, are you O'ing at all, or is it Monkmode?

 

I got to know about my PIED issue after I got married. So started out this journey to cure PIED. Healed PIED after 8 months but PAWS started. So, I couldn't abstain from O since that was my real target i.e. to have normal sex life with my partner. Now that she is pregnant, I have started hard mode from last 2 months