New to NoFap/ Issues I've been having

Hey guys. New here. I'm a 25 year old gay guy living in Australia. I've known for a while that masturbating too frequently has been causing me some issues. It's quite interesting, because whenever I wank, especially in close concession, I can feel my body getting weaker. It also gets more susceptible to stimulants (like caffeine) and right after ejaculating, I can feel my knees cracking and getting slightly weaker. But then if I go without it for even a few days, the knee problem is almost completely gone. I find that wanking too often also affects my mood very negatively, I become much more erratic and easily perturbed.

Another thing I recently discovered is that I've been having trouble getting a full erection during sex. I'd been seeing this guy recently and even though I like "topping" and I fantasize about that quite often, most of the time I would have trouble getting an erection and would end up bottoming instead. Which was fine to a degree, I enjoyed that too, but it was really frustrating because I felt so restricted. I have no problems getting an erection if I'm going to wank at home by myself, but when I'm actually in bed with a guy it becomes a problem. I usually lose it right before attempting to penetrate (It could also be due to performance anxiety, I'm not sure.)

I also noticed that masturbating too frequently gives me severe brain fog. It usually happens when I do it too frequently, but it makes it almost impossible to focus, it feels my whole brain is covered in smoke. If I stop for a few days, poof it's gone.

Another "problem" I have is that I think about sex too much. I just can't focus on anything else. Like if I go to the library, I just can't focus on what I'm doing for even 10 minutes without looking around checking the hot guys. I just think about sex way too often, and it's come to the point that it's become hard to function and actually get shit done without getting distracted. Some may think this is normal, but I don't think this intensity is healthy, and I feel like it could be because my body is used to getting a release very often and when it doesn't get it, it just yearns for it. I also feel like the way I look at things and whether they interest me is always, even loosely, based on sexual stuff. Say, if i'm meeting friends, if there happens to be a hot guy there among the group then I'll be in a much better mood. I know it's really silly and shallow, and I'm aware that it's a problem, but I just can't shrug it off. It's like my brain only functions properly if whatever I'm doing gives me a dopamine rush. Does that make sense?

This post turned out to be unexpectedly long but it would be helpful to know if others with similar problems found that rebooting was a solution, so I can use that as an incentive to stick with it. Cheers

 

Thanks for the replies guys. Hearing that nofap is a solution makes me hopeful for the future!