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

food tastes bad, either diarrhea or constipation, anxiety, heart beating fast, shrunken junk, depression, fatigue, brain fog, inability to think clearly, poor sense of time and place, inability to see the world through a clear lens, no libido, rare MW, difficulty sleeping, random body aches, anhedonia, and some more i can't think of at the moment. complete lack of motivation. fear of dying.

oh and i get these weird brain aches. like an acute kind of pain in various parts of my brain.

 

Did you use to pmo before your brain finished developing?

I feel like porn affect a young brain worse than a mature one.

 

yeah when i was like 12-13 yrs old

 

You started very Child. It's the reason of the damage.

The men how started us later in the life is different.

 

Very true.

 

Very true.

 

Those are all things I have recently been through as well. Have they eased at all? In the last 2 weeks or so my fatigue may have improved a little

 

Those are all things I have recently been through as well. Have they eased at all? In the last 2 weeks or so my fatigue may have improved a little jus

Just trust in the process. You might not see a light at the end of the tunnel but just hold out for that day when it all clicks because it will be worth it no doubt

 

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I've started around 14 but wasn't addicted at the time due to hard access. I came back to it around 18 from DVD by cousin, still wasn't an addict. Once I came to the US at 19 years of age, I've started pmoing heavily at 20 in 2011. Then I discovered nofap around 2014. Been struggling to get my freedom from pmo. I quit and return multiple to it. Now I'm in paws. And it's been almost 3 years I'm suffering from it.

My theory is, If you quit you gotta do it forever. Otherwise things will get worse in the long run.

 

these PAWs are making me feel so lonely. there is no one to talk to about it with. no one believes me and i just sit here, day after day, immobilized by my symptoms. i look like a complete loser from an outsider's perspective. and it takes so fucking long to get over it. i don't know what to do with myself anymore. nothing is improving. i'm just laying down wasting my life it seems.

i'm in a bad place.

 

Are you able to workout/exercise?

It may not sound appealing and it's unlikely to speed up the recovery process but at the very least it's a healthy distraction.

 

I definitely feel VERY lonely, not being experienced with girls sucked me into porn at a young age and I'm now really struggling to get out of that dark hole. I just think it will get better over time, and I won't give up on it.

 

I'm on Day 81 and maaaannn , my mood is , I don't know what to say. I literally can't stand myself.

 

I'm a 15 year old and I've been fapping since I was 8 years old [believe me I accidently discovered it while reading a book while keeping it on my little buddy and soon I pressed the book and got a weird but good feeling which u know about then started pressing and shaking it] and watching porn since I was 11. So am I experiencing P.A.W.S because I'm having insane mood swings ? Is it possible to experience P.A.W.S at this age and am I going through it? If I am , for how long will it last?

 

They say 2 months of recovery for each year of addiction. This rule makes sense to me, but it is just a heuristic.

 

Hang in there buddy. I'm in a similar situation. Get through this, and you'll have done something that few people can. There may not be evidence right now, but I'll bet this is as difficult as any addiction to quit. So if you can do this, you can do pretty much anything.

What do you want to do with your life once you have quit, and come through the other side with PAWS?

 

Oh thank you , I guess I should struggle for 8 months ,oof . But let's stay strong.

 

Hey buddy, I can’t tell you anything new but to just fight through it. I know all your struggles and I feel your loneliness. There will come a day where all this passes and where you feel connected to the world again. A beautiful woman might join your side and you will experience life as clear as it could get. You will laugh from the bottom of your heart, you will enjoy a clear and sharp mind without the boundaries of performing a disgusting act every other time. There will be a time where you will be free. Your mind can’t imagine this right now but it will come.

Fight this battle now and be free for the rest of your life. Don’t let the negativity overtake. If everything gets to much then just go on YouTube and listen to some speeches from Alan Watts while lying down in bed! Just listen to his voice, relax and understand that your speaking mind isn’t your best friend at the moment. Every feeling and thought is temporary and that the clinging and resisting to it ultimately brings suffering.

My symptoms are currently the same as always but for the first time in months the universe is giving me some positive things to be happy about. My father who wasn’t able to speak for the last 8 months was finally able to speak a few words and was able to tell my mother „I love you“, „Hello“, „Yes“. I can’t describe the joy I felt when hearing about him being able to whisper a few words. My father is everything to me and he saved me from addiction and became my best friend. The brain haemorrhage in early February and him being in coma 2-3 months didn’t made my recovery any easier. I had to invest so much time in getting my parents house fixed in order to sell it and until yesterday it was hard to find a new owner for this house but now there are two different parties interested in the house and both willing to pay the requested price. Nothing is set and done yet but just the possibility of selling the house so my parents can live in peace for the rest of their time takes of a huge pressure of my shoulders.

I know this sounds cheesy but your circumstances always could be worse. Even in my situation I often think about people that battled even more horrific times while being in war for many years. Be glad about your current life situation and if your life seems to be pointless and fucked up from the outside then this is just another thought without any real relevance. We all currently let go of short term satisfaction in order to get our mental health back and while this is happening we learn some important life lessons. We will never forget the horrors we went through and for the rest of time we walk this planet we know and understand how hollow and fake most of pleasures really are. People spend their whole life chasing their own tail and before they realise life as they know is over. PAWS is your gateway of living a fulfilled life but first you have to pay back your neurotransmitter debt and when this is done a new life is about to start!!!!

 

Man, I sure hope you're wrong about that. Otherwise, I've got another 51 months of this shit ahead of me