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Things to Expect when you start

Discussion in 'Rebooting - Porn Addiction Recovery' started by You can do it bro, Oct 15, 2021.

  1. You can do it bro

    You can do it bro New Fapstronaut

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    Things to Expect when you start
    (these are cheat codes that the average person trying to quit don’t know):
    • Around day 3 you will feel this urge to start working out and be active
    • There is this MASSIVE urge (this urge is wayyy more extreme than normal) to watch porn which happens.
    • It happens on day 5, day 7 or day 21. It just depends on what you were doing the last time you jacked off.
    • A lot of dudes don’t know what this urge is and they don’t know how long it will last so they think it’s impossible to quit and they go back
    • This urge goes on and off for the ENTIRE day most times some times 1.5 days
    How do I know which day the urge is coming?

    • If you almost nutted and you decided to stop, that shit will probably hit you hard earlier on day 1 or 2
    • If you were binge watching and you’re just sick of it, it will come later on, like on Day 21 or something
    • If you just randomly decide to stop without getting in one last nut, it will probably come on day 5 or 7
    • It’s mostly random, I’ve heard some people who got it on Day 14 too

    Signs that this urge has hit:

    • You can still feel the urge even if you’re in a room full of people or out in public
    • When you’re all alone, It gets really intense and you start to sweat
    • Fast heart beat, fast breathing
    • You find it hard to sleep if the urge hits while you’re up at night
    • You are literally are stuck sitting there and you DEADASS can’t think of anything but jacking off
    • Your brain starts trying to RATIONALIZE and your brain is telling you it will only be once
    • Your brain is screaming “FUCK IT I CAN’T I MUST JACKOFF!”
    • Working out ️‍♀️ or taking a really cold shower helps a lot with this and makes it easier
    • Going out in public more often MIGHT delay this urge
    • It takes 7 days for your semen to refill from when you last busted a nut

    After the Massive Urge (and withdrawal symptoms):

    • Things get real easy for a while.
    • There is a flatline period about 1 month in (this makes people relapse a lot), which lasts for about a week or a little more:
    • Your dopamine/reward system in your brain just gets fucked up cause it’s used to high amounts of dopamine when you watch porn
    • Because of that, your dick just seems to have stopped working and you just can’t get a boner, no matter how many girls or whatever you see
    • You might have mood swings, frustration and even fatigue
    • The pornographic flashbacks are real. All the shit you used to watch will pop up in your head. All the different scenes you used to watch will clog up your brain
    • This makes it harder for you to focus during this period
    • You also don’t wanna socialize or go do anything that requires social skills
    • You feel weird/emotionless and you feel like shit again for no apparent reason.
    • It’s because the dopamine levels and the libido levels in your body have dropped so low
    • It feels like all the benefits are disappearing
    • This is your brain healing and learning to be without porn. Do NOT start jacking off again to see if your dick works.
    • Because soon as you look at porn again, your dick and everything will start working again like nothing happened
    • So just wait the flatline out, you will feel normal after the flatline
    • You also start missing porn. Your brain goes: “Damn, I’ll actually never jerk off again ”
    • “I miss the days when I could just jack it off every time something sad happened or every time someone mad me feel upset ”
    • There might be multiple flatlines but each one gets shorter and shorter

    After the first Flatline:
    You’re probably on day 40 - 60 and after this, you get small little urges but they start to fade-away. Make sure you don’t get too comfortable because some urges will come back still and you’re not fully healed.

    The flatline is over, can I have sex or have an orgasm without porn?

    • No do not have sex or have an orgasm in the 90 day period.
    • This will activate the chaser effect. Sex gives a lot more dopamine more than any normal activity
    • The chaser effect makes your recovering brain want an orgasm so badly just to get another taste of high dopamine
    • Then it will escalate and you will start watching Porn again for even more dopamine
    • Or you will start having hella sex and demanding sex all the time just to get the same amount of dopamine as porn
    • This can lead you to become a sex addict which is a whole other issue itself
    • It’s like trying to quit being an alcoholic and then taking sips of beer, it will escalate and get you back to square 1 again
    • Your brain is not ready for that yet.


    Benefits:

    • First off, a lot of these benefits start popping up after like 2 weeks. That’s why when people hit the flatline later on (after a month or two), they relapse because they think that quitting truly won’t give them any benefits.
    • You get most benefits after two weeks, but the flatline and the withdrawal symptoms makes it APPEAR like your benefits are disappearing
    • If you thought you had social anxiety, that shit goes right out the fucking window
    • Talking to females becomes 100x easier and females will GRAVITATE towards you
    • Asking them out becomes 1000x more easier. It’s still nerve racking but it’s actually feels possible now
    • Females become 1000x more attractive than ever. It’s amazing. And you will find this attractiveness from somewhere else. Not in their boobs and butt
    • All girls just hit different after you quit and you will not find it hard to talk to them or anything
    • Real women were attractive while you were watching porn but trust me, this attraction to women becomes SO MUCH stronger when you’re off porn
    • If you were already having sex and watching porn at the same time, then the sex feels 100x better when you stop watching porn
    • When your semen tank fills up, your body just keeps producing more semen but it gets absorbed in your body as nutrients
    • And you also gain a TON of energy to do what you wanna do. Usually a lot of skinny dudes who quit Porn, end up being bigger and hella muscular at end of their journey because they put the sexual energy from the semen into weightlifting
    • Also your mind will be more clear, and you won’t be wasting time imaging about fucking with every female you see
    • If you had porn induced Erectile dysfunction (I.e. you couldn’t get hard for a female unless you were watching porn), that shit will disappear and you will perform better when you clapping the cheeks

    If I relapse....did I lose all my progress?
    • A relapse is NOT an event. It’s a process.
    • A relapse isn’t when when you slip up one time, a relapse is when you slowly come back to your old lifestyle of watching porn every single day
    • DO NOT BINGE WATCH after you have relapsed (do not jack off multiple times that day or night)
    • You’re gonna have to experience the massive urge again and this time it’s coming a lot sooner
    • Your energy will drained again. So you will not be in your alpha state anymore.
    • But you will be back to where you were (benefit wise) at after 7 - 14 days
    • Your brain rewiring process will be hindered a little bit.

    90 days are over. What’s next?
    • There’s no day that marks the recovery day
    • 90 days is just the beginning guys. If you’re off porn for 90 days, then you’re only about 25% - 35% done with recovery. It depends on how long you were on porn.
    • It takes a little over a year off porn to get off of porn for the average person.
    • Full recovery takes about 3 years off of porn
    • But DON’T WORRY, once you’re around day 180 - 220, if you did everything correctly, then you shouldn’t be relapsing ever again
    • Most of the recovery is just fixing your lifestyle and making a schedule which doesn’t give you any opportunity to get back into porn again
    • Yes, it’s possible to recover from porn for the rest of your life (to the point where there are no more urges or desires to watch porn), don’t let anyone (especially another addict) tell you otherwise.
    NOTE:
    Masturbating [WITHOUT PORN] or having sex is ONLY okay after around 90 days.


    We gotta quit this shit. ALOT of men are addicted to pornography. I’m not sure if this is true, but I heard of studies that suggest that porn can actually make you less spiritual/religious. A growing number of men are getting trapped in this addiction and the numbers keep growing really fast. They’re making billions of dollars off of us every year and they wanna keep us low and addicted so they get more money. We gotta stop being their slaves and we gotta stop being slaves of our addicted brains and strive for change. This is a serious pandemic in the world which is being ignored.



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    All we have is now
    Is it as easy as it looks? No BUT I KNOW you can do it bro
    Forget what happened yesterday or any other day and think about the NOW
    If you think you can't do it trust me, you can
    Make the RIGHT decision in that moment and think for a second
    You can do more than you think you can do.

    Start where you are
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    Steve.tmq, MARB, UncleBob and 5 others like this.
  2. Spartan1998

    Spartan1998 Fapstronaut

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    Thanks a lot brother for this great post, very helpful and informative!

    I am on day 43, I hope I get recovered as fast as possible and also for everyone here I hope the same!
     
  3. Red Moon

    Red Moon Fapstronaut

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    Only thing missing is about long flatlines. 26 months in the flatline ...
     
  4. JonasVW92

    JonasVW92 Fapstronaut

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    NOTE:
    Masturbating [WITHOUT PORN] or having sex is ONLY okay after around 90 days.

    I don't agree with this. I never watched porn, but did a lot of M. And it has basically the same outcome as porn. Good post for the rest!
     
  5. MARB

    MARB Fapstronaut

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    Genial, muy buena información, justo lo que necesitaba en este momento que recién inicio en mi proceso, muchas gracias.
     

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