9 year pmo free

Today is year 9 of my sobriety and new life.

 

How long where addicted ?

for 33 years

How was your first year and your second year fighting it off ?

the first was not so easy. The second and the next ones were almost easy

How ddi you manage to deal with PAWS ( Post Accute withdrawl Symptoms ) ?

prayer at the time of PAWS

 

To fight PAWS is relatively simple and easy if one knows what really works. In my case nothing had worked beside of prayer. That is - when temptation starts you start to pray and you do it as long as the temptation lasts. And you repeat the whole cycle when another temptations come back. You repeat it as many times as they come back and soon you are the winner experiencing some inner peace until they come back again. But if you start watching porn substitutes ( even for a while) then prayer won't work rather.
There are much more details and some other means I have been using. If you are interested then PM me.

I'm not new on this forum. I have been a member since 2015.

 

My recovery has been full pmo-free. So no masturbation and no porn and no porn substitutes during the 9 years.

 

During the 9 years no such symptoms. Maybe because before I had had almost one year free with only a few pmo acts. But for sure the means I have been using fight anhedonia, depression, anxiety either and pied is only a matter of time - if your abstinence from porn and masturbation is long enough then pied is over because the cause of pied is too often using porn plus masturbation. It's like you can't experience the feeling of being hungry if you always eat too much.

I had had all the 4 symptoms you wrote when I tried to get rid of pmo for many years (about 22 years) unsuccesfully. It had been unsuccesful because I had used ineffective means.

 

Already after 5 or 10 days since I started my new approach, method 10 years ago.

These are signs that you lack something in your process. You have given up pmo but instead of it you got nothing to reduce your pain, nothing to relieve you. I had experienced it too for 22 years. But it will change as in my case if you start using some means to reduce your negative feeling, emotion and acute body reaction.

 

Hard mode rather. Beside of few times, 9 and 8 years ago.