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Will I get another long period of anxiety?

Discussion in 'Porn Addiction' started by Comets, Feb 12, 2017.

  1. Comets

    Comets Fapstronaut

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    So, I abstained from PMO for about 27 days and had anxiety because of stopping. Then the anxiety just disappeared at around 20 days after stopping. My urges to PMO went up because I felt like nothing was wrong and I pretty much PMO'd 4-6 times this week and then now the anxiety is back. I'm feeling really anxious and upset because I feel like I'm gonna go through the whole entire process of anxiety again because I PMO'd and now I'm stopping. Today is the first day of no PMO since the last time I did.
     
  2. Yes. Off and on, until you are rebooted, and then much less thereafter, but, still, sometime. It's OK, sucks, but is OK, just know what is happening. It is a withdraw.
     
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  3. Comets

    Comets Fapstronaut

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    Okay, I'm gonna take this relapse as a big warning next time I consider doing it again. And it just sucks because I've went trough the period of anxiety once, but hey, it's life. Not always easy, not always difficult. Thanks for the reply!
     
  4. Enemjay

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    If you relapse, that's ok. Just try to make each reboot longer than the last, until you hit 90 days. By then I'll bet you'll be strong enough. Just imagine how rich life will be when you're free. Sunsets are richer, food tastes better, you'll struggle through anxiety but once you've done your time you'll be able to be present with a woman. I've heard that you'll get a GF 100% with no PMO.
     
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    Also it's funny that when I had been Oing daily the past 2 years, all the girls I'd see on the street would seem disinterested by default. Yesterday however, at day 13, I was standing in line at the store and still feeling low but despite that I'd felt like I was getting a lot more attention from gals- like they could smell the extra testosterone levels wafting off of me or something. Funny too, cause from my point of few I felt tense and jittery from the abstinence- a long shot from centered and confident...

    It's probably just my mind playing tricks on me, but who knows... I have read that often as men, we project the attraction that we feel for a woman onto her, assuming that she feels what you're feeling. This could be that sensation, as God knows I'm horny as fuck...
     
  6. Comets

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    Thanks, the anxiety is starting to subside. I always have girls talking to me as usual at school. This weekend my friends and I were out at night and sort of ran into another group of people and that group was from my old school. There was like 6 boys and 3 girls and all the girls were like staring at me and smiling and stuff. :emoji_ghost: Anyway, what was your mental struggle?
     
  7. Enemjay

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    I've had anxiety for years. It started in college where I'd assumed it started from my shame at being a virgin til 22. It never really subsided. Though therapy helped (counselor helped 'coach' me into doing exposures- challenges where you go out and gradually face the environments and circumstances that spark the anxiety (girls in my case). It was great but I fell out of doing the exposures) Medication never worked, fucking garbage...

    I finally found that I'd been wiring my brain thru daily PMO to hyper sexualize the world around me. I'm at day 14 of my first noPMO run and am convinced I'll see some results eventually. No wonder I was so nervous all the time before- my body was always trying to recoup from daily O.

    I love the community too. We're all here to help one another live fulfilled lives. It's good to know we're not the only ones struggling and that other's have made it to the sunshine at the end of the tunnel.
     

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