I used to do a lot of drugs in my younger days . Ecstasy lsd coke and many other mind alerting substances . My question to you guys is could this have caused low sex drive and the ED. Did the drugs do something to my brain ? I function otherwise . I have a good job , remember names quite easily and don’t struggle with remembering things. I did watch alot or porn . I have fantasies and fetishes and I watched porn alot . One day I woke up from sleeping and I realized that my sexual fantasies no longer could produce an erection anymore . I can’t get hard to porn or my fetish porn either. Do you guys think the drugs did this ? Or do you guys think beating it from the age of 14 to 20 caused the pied ? I am 30 and Im still addicted to porn and can’t get an erection to save my life . Today is day 2 for me . Can I recover .
Drugs are not good for the brain, but if you was abstinent from this, your brain should have receovered. I think what caused the PIED is the PMO addiction (same with me). It is curable, just give it time 90+ days, depends on how strong the addictions was and how bad the PIED is. Stay strong bro
Thanks man . Yeah I don’t know anyone else who has done drugs with these problems . The addiction is strong I have fetishes and stuff . I also live alone in a 571 sq foot apartment so at at times I’m like fuck it and I give in . I know that these fantasies are not real life and that the sex workers I see do not care about me . They may pretend to care about me but I know they do not . I hate this man . I lost 10 years of my life to it . My family they ask me why I’m so miserable all the time but I don’t want to tell them
bro i feel you. Do not worry, drugs are not the reason. I did too much drugs too when i was younger, but this will not cause ED years after being abstinent. PIED is because of your brain gets desensitive through Porn, Fetishes, Sex workers whatever. Probably 30-60 days will not be enough for healing, give it minimum 90 days, maybe 120, 150 or more and stay away from Porn and Prostitute, do not fantazize hardcore fetish stuff.
Just to follow up, prior to starting NoFap, I would also use drugs socially along with a keg load of alcohol. I agree that drugs are bad for the brain, however the symptoms you are experiencing are likely related to the desensitized pathways in your brain caused by PORN. I know that most people advise that 90 days should be enough, but please do not fall into this trap. For some of us recovery takes 90 days, for others 6 months and for others years. I am not trying to demoralise you in anyway, I simply want to be honest and say that recovery could be longer (or shorter) than expected. It all comes down to how heavy your addiction was/is. As you make your way through recovery, you will notice your old self gradually returning. Old fetishes and cravings will gently disappear, while the urge to go out and live with return. Now is the BEST time to learn to get to know yourself and put down the blueprints for your new life once you are healed.
I can’t believe it caused all this . It’s the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do . I’m so sad and depressed and angry . I’m a crazy lunatic who hates himself and the world around him . Then I get on the why me thoughts ? Like why me why this and that
It’s just hard man . At the same time we’re grown men and we have to do what we have to do to recover . It’s just hard man cause it’s like fuck . I think about my fetishes and stuff like that all the time . I’m just a complete mess man
I think the question to ask is; what would have happened if you didn't find NoFap? I have my own thoughts on why some of us go through this, but the best thing you can do is embrace your circumstances and keep moving forward. Understand that the feelings you are experiencing are not yours, and are simply down to the imbalance of neurochemicals in your brain. It is definitely a sh*t situation for us to be in, but as long as we 'play by the rules' and avoid PMO, we won't be in it forever - I guarantee it! Accept that there will be days where you feel like being alone and doing absolutely nothing. If you wake up and want to be alone - be alone. If you want to eat junk food - eat junk food. If you want to watch Netflix - watch Netflix. Recovery is difficult, and nothing makes recovery harder than guilt tripping yourself for not being where you want to be recovery wise. When the time is right, you will have the urge to go back out into the world and achieve your goals. Be good to yourself and take things one day at a time.
