Writing based on personal experience ( after over 15 year of porn use) The feelings of anxiety, anhedonia, depression, DP/DR, panic & near mania --- all these were my typical symptoms. One thing to note is, the tips stated below , although immensely helpful & will sure hasten the process a bit, there is no way you can avoid flatline if you were a PMO addict. Let's go 1. Meditation --sounds cliche, but this is perhaps the fastest way to rewire your brain physically. I started doing 30 min twice a day & sometimes around 45 min sessions. Many times entered into deep stillness & thoughtless states too. 2. Stop visiting porn support websites everyday & keep looking for same answers --- how long does flatline last? are my symptoms same as yours? etc etc . Join a community, take up a hobby, spend time going out with your family Just stop reading the same reddit or nofap posts & give your mind some detour 3. Yogic breathing exercises. You can easily find them on google & YouTube - Anulom Vilom, Bhastrika & Kapalbhati. Just these 3. I did close to 2 hours of these breath techniques a day. Again very helpful in physical rewiring & dopamine & other hormone rebalancing 4 Exercise - lift weights, run a distance. Best is pushups 5. Avoid SSRIs. Instead talk therapy with a good therapist helps a lot. It helped me by a huge degree. Drugs will not help in dopamine reset. 6. Accept that nature is teaching you a lesson via flatline. The symptoms are so bad , in order to tell you not to repeat the PMO shit again. And always remember you are not alone 7. Sleep ::: meditation & brreath-work above will ensure that sleep happens naturally. Just don't interfere it by blue-light screens at night From my experience, around a year is what it takes to feel much better (almost near normal). I still have moderate anxiety issues, but totally manageable. 100 times better than flatline torture.
The less chemical you took, the better. You should not be addicted to drugs, unless you really need them. I think, nowadays, there's a lot of drugs' abuse. Everyone took them even for a light headache or for something where a normal body can heal itself in a couple of days. Allow your body to heal naturally, if possible, and use drugs for serious things.
Life saver. Going one myself. Well i have seen the western world lies, Im planning and saving money to move myself either to close eastern. Done with the modern society.
I think the difference between that anxienty and flatline anxienty is different. I had days i had 0 flatline symptoms boom next week my legs got dragged into the harsh conditions of the recovery. Also you're year clean?
Found millions of post saying ssri is cope. Infact it open gates for more withdrawals. Serotonin is not the problem, its dopamine lol. No one got through the healing with ssri. They quitted and went hardmode. Guess what they healed.
Hello all, from personal experience I had to use SSRI for severe anxiety problems and in my welcome post I tell that it helps a lot with streaks since you do not have any urges. Also you can M/O without problem since it stabilices your brain. I no longer took it. Jay, congrats for this achievement. Have you ever went to the same flatline more than once? how long does it last and when did you start to realize you were getting over them? Regards
I am day 12 right now and I actually feel nothing apart from being a little horny and having vivid sex dreams.This might sound odd but I actually kinda miss having withdrawal symptoms. Overcoming those would indicate progress to me. So far I've simply blocked all triggering websites and it has been smooth sailing from then on. I read tho, that around day 10, depending on the person of course, the porn pathways in your brain actually grow a little stronger first before eventually deteriorating. So triggers around this time are even more challenging. Stay alert brother
