Is PIED improving? Or is it the chaser effect?

Basically all I know is over the last while I have had much better erections than what I used to. I also feel horny usually once or twice on a day on a daily basis. I still continue to MO just using my imagination, but sometimes I do occasionally relapse on PMO.

But my streaks over the last while more went like this 20-30 streak of no porn and artificial sexual stimulation, relapse, binge for 1-2 days. Then another 20-30 day streak of no porn and artificial sexual stimulation, relapse, binge for 1-2 days.

But recently for some reason the binging has been getting much less. Basically the streaks have been getting less, but the binging has also been getting much less. So over the month it's more went like this 10-14 day streak of no porn and artificial sexual stimulation, slip, PMO for 20-30 minutes. Then another streak of 10-14 days of no porn and artificial sexual stimulation.

I did relapse on PMO yesterday for 20 minutes. Guys see today I have been walking about with spontaneous erections on and off all day and night. I woke up with morning wood this morning. Tonight I MOed just using my imagination for 5 minutes and it felt amazing.

But not just today, overall my erections just seem to be miles better than what they used to be. I feel like I can get turned on so easily these days.

Now like I mentioned I don't know if maybe this is the product of all my streaks and time away from porn and artificial sexual stimulation adding up over the last few years? I'd like to think so.

But if it's not, and I am literally stuck in a chaser effect the majority of the time, it's such a strange situation. Because I don't feel like I'd have issues in sex over the last while. Like tonight for instance I don't think I'd of had trouble performing in sex. So if this is some chaser effect that I am in the majority of the time it makes me question how many guys out there who actually regularly get laid actually have porn induced erectile dysfunction or porn induced sexual problems, but it's just the fact that they are usually in a chaser effect that they can psychically perform in sex?

Like I said though I do hope I am actually recovering from PIED rather being in a chaser effect the majority of the time. But I'm not 100% sure?

 

It was really severe. I was an extremely heavy user of PMO on highspeed internet for 7-8 years. Then the last 2 and a half years I have been on a nofap and pornfree journey. But much more so the pornfree journey. That includes all artificial sexual stimulation.

I don't understand what you mean by how are you improving? So if you basically don't have ed anymore you are not improving? If you are basically on porn and artificial sexual stimulation between 1-2 days in an entire month as apposed to chronically binging on it nearly every day you are not improving?

I am also hardly even binging on it these days. So it's usually once or twice a month of single short slips, so for 20-30 minutes. Then the rest of the month I'm not on porn or artificial sexual stimulation at all.

 

Lol do you think any form of use is binging?

An alcoholic drinking one or two beers then stopping isn't binging. A gambler rolling one or two rolls of the dice and then stopping isn't binging.

The same thing is happening in the brain with these addictions as what happens in PMO addiction. So if a PMO addict hits PMO hard that's the same as an alcoholic falling off the wagon and hitting alcohol hard. If a PMO addict ends up PMOing for twenty minutes that's about the same equivalent as an alcoholic falling off the wagon and drinking two beers. It's not binging.

This might be wrong of me, but the main thing I care about is the fact I don't seem to have erectile dysfunction anymore. Meaning I am now fairly confident that I could perform in sex. This is the most important thing that matters to me.

I end up on porn and artificial sexual stimulation a minimal amount of time each month. So basically never. I notice literally no negative consequences from it, and my dick works perfect basically all the time these days? Suits me.

Believe me this didn't used to be the case for me. I used to be chronically addicted. I had severe ed, and my mental state was much worse.

I used to feel the need to read all those links you sent me from yourbrainonporn and obsess about all that stuff constantly. These days I don't really feel the need to.

 

I have read through all of those articles many times before.

Honestly I used to be like a crack addict when it came to PMO. I used to shake with excitement at the though of using it. I used to run home with excitement when I knew I had the chance to get it. I used to go out my way to get it. It's because I have used blockers for a long time and configured my laptop in a certain way it's difficult to bypass. These days it's near impossible to bypass. Potentially impossible.

When I end up on porn and artificial sexual stimulation these days it's nothing compared to what it used to be. I overall find it boring these days. I am done with it relatively quick if I do have a slip on it these days.

I am just going by my own personal experience about how I used to overall feel, and how I feel now.

I masturbate, MO very frequently just using my imagination. I'd say on average I MO about once a day, sometimes more, sometimes less, just using my imagination. As I can't get literally any porn or artificial sexual stimulation 95% of the time. I can only get it if I plan to get it in advance, and I need to wait at least a week until I can get it. Now and again I require administrator privileges on my laptop, and occasionally this can cause me to be able to get some porn and artificial sexual stimulation. As a whole though I am basically never on porn or artificial sexual stimulation these days. I wake up with morning mood nearly everyday. I get spontaneous erections throughout the day. I don't have ed when I masturbate just using my imagination.

As I said I am much better compared to what I used to be. I used to be like a crack addict when it came to PMO. I was chronically addicted and I had severe ed. This simply is not the case anymore. But you're right. on some level maybe the porn and artificial sexual stimulation does still excite me to some extent, like I don't seem to want to cut it from my life altogether. But no way do I believe having a slip and ending up on it for 30-60 minutes over the course of an entire month is worse than chronically using it every day or every other day, edging to it for hours, binging on it. No way do I believe ending up on it for very short periods of time basically never is worse than that. I can tell from first hand experience it's no where near as bad as that. You cant even compare the two in my opinion.

It's literally like an alcoholic who was drinking a litre bottle of vodka every single day, who was getting drunk out their mind every single day, who then ended up drinking like 2 beers once a month. You can't even compare the two. The only real risk is this behaviour from the alcoholic could lead them back in to severe addiction again, as they probably wouldn't stick at 2 beers for long.

All I know is how I feel. Not having ed is really important to me, and for the most part I don't seem to these days. But like you said maybe if I got with a woman I might still struggle, who knows. But I can easily get and maintain an erection without porn and artificial sexual stimulation. As I said I masturbate basically everyday without any of that.

My mental health used to be so much worse than what it is today. Don't get me wrong I do still have issues. But in truth I don't think that is anything to do with porn. I believe I just have certain mental health issues. As people had mental health problems before porn and high speed internet. But when I was chronically masturbating, edging, binging on PMO, I can't even explain how bad my mental state used to be. I used to feel like I was literally going insane in the head. But I was more or less in a PMO binge that lasted probably about 8 years. What I mean by that is over 8 years I was heavily PMOing, edging and binging more or less everyday, and this went on for about 8 years. Only over the last 2 years I have really changed my behaviour, and it's getting better, better and better. But when I really first tried to quit porn and artificial sexual stimulation, and my usage seriously decreased over time, I went through really severe withdrawal symptoms on and off for a long time. It took a very long time for me to get through that. Thankfully these days I don't experience anything like that anymore.