(UPDATE) 400 Days (1+ Year) Free of PMO & Transforming Into A New Man

Keep going man! Thats what life actually is. Everyone wants that perfect feeling and that it nevers stops but dont realise that if not for bad days, we cant cherish and enjoy good days and moments. Everybody is surrounded by idiots nowadays who take positivity from you so its important to distance yourself from that and find a space that does not include that.

 

Thank you for sharing your journey. I have only just started back again on this path and I need to be as resilient as you are being. But it’s useful to see that there are always going to be testing and trying days. Yet there is hope. Thank you.

 

Keep on pushing through! The struggle you are feeling now is just another hill you must climb on your way to recovery and freedom. To read stories like this is truly motivating for us who is trying to accomplish the same. And that you will continue going strong and not falling back is important for a lot of us! Use this as a motivation to keep on going and holding yourself accountable. Stay hard brother!

 

Thanks for the story. I'm in the same situation you were in. Learned about PMO at 17 - still an addict at 27. Maybe it's still possible for me to break free.

 

You inspire me to bounce back. I started my streak in October 2022 as well, but ultimately failed in June, and have struggled since. However, I am doing better now, closing in on 2 weeks for the first time since June.

I hope to be in a “natural NoFap state” where I don’t have to worry too hard about it anymore. Because of people like you I know it is possible for me too.

 

One day at a time! Once you get inside the second month, you won't have to struggle so hard to
build clean days.

 

I'm quite curious what makes you say that. I do feel that it's very easy to categorise ourselves into these buckets sometimes without really understanding the underlying conditions that actually cause some of our mood swings. Something my therapist recently told me is that if its something you haven't consistently experienced or if there are days when you have actually felt good about yourself and not dealt with the swings of emotions, its most likely not clinical bi polar.

I too have been diagnosed AD & Bi Polar and had been subscribed medications. But I have found that my good days are so in sync with the typical days like 9 to 14 day or 21 to 25 day period that is takes of no PMO beyond which my symptoms get better.

Is it just a messy brain space that is causing you to think the same? curious to know your thoughts.

 

I felt like totally shit when i went too long on nofap. If you can not transmute the energy, it gets stuck or something. It was freaky.

Now i do nofap for like 3 weeks and "relapse" with love of my future wife in mind.

Just a perspective. It might be the long nofap streak thats messing with you - It can become a destructive obsession, the body and mind need the stress release from O.

Peace

 

If you want to recover fast from O, get a multimineral + extra zinc, like zinc Picolinate.

 

Fap = zinc depletion.
Low zinc = Low testosterone.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8875519/

 

I'm no doctor so I can't really give you any advice. But please be vary of either being self diagnosed or medically diagnosed with such things as I sometimes feel that doctors or allopathy in a way can throw these terms quite loosely to put you on medications without knowing the underlying causes of the same. And some of these medications sometimes have long term side effects which I'm pretty sure you've read or come across. I'm not averse to taking medications myself to deal with the same if I really require it, and neither should you. But you need to really really know that it is the case before you pump your body with any meds, cause these meds that are used to treat things like bipolar will not just affect your mindspace but the functioning of the rest of your body as well.

Try and maintain a log and everytime you start feeling the worst of it or find your self reacting badly or may be even having a great day, put a score to it on a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being the worst you are feeling and see if you can find patterns. Share them with me and we can compare. There will be days you miss logging and that is fine. But its easy to really understand and see whats going on or even present this information to a doctor when required.

I am looking at something like ayurveda to help reduce the intensity of these swings. Cause I think the goal is to learn how to regulate your moods naturally. I dont have answers for you as of now. I'll update incase I do find relief from the same. But hold on to your sobriety mate. It's not worth slipping back to your former self. Keep the faith. drop a message if you need support!! We are all in this together