Depression

Yes, Depression may be just one thing you experience during withdrawal. There is a variety if symptoms which can occur. Read the following:

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Withdrawal is different for everybody. No one can tell you how long a certain symptom will stay.

 

oh man, you're still good. I quit porn a year and a half ago and I get bouts of anxiety/OCD/depression regulary, after 20+ years of masturbating. But you do have day when you feel invincible and nothing can touch you. So hang in there, there is a light at the end of the tunnel.

 

To really reboot the right way I think you need to be totally unattached romantically. Once I started the reboot I knew I was on a 3 month dating sabbatical.

 

I can't really answer your specific questions, but I can say from personal experience that PMO and depression make for a vicious cycle. The PMO side is pretty straightforward, albeit a pain in the butt... it's just a matter of saying "no" to anything and everything sex. It's been a while since I've made a 90-day streak, but I'd say that it takes at least that long to normalize. The depression is a bit trickier, but my personal takeaway is that depression always lies. If depression every tells you to do anything, it's the last thing you should do. If it says to sleep some more, get up. If it says to stay inside today, you have to get outta the house. It may take a while for it to sink in, how much commitment this requires. It's a full-time job, and there will be ruts. As my counter indicates, I'm kinda in one right now. Just don't worry about when it'll be over. That's what depression wants you to do.

 

Exercise, cold showers and smal smal extreeeeamly smal goals helps me, when Iäm depressed.

 

Start exercise or go out for a walk.
It'll change your physicality soon & then physicality will change your mind.

 

6 days? My depression has improved after 7 months. Before that I had suicidal thoughts constantly. Now I just walk around like a zombie with no feelings at all. All the withdrawal symptoms may last a long time. Some people are good after 2 months. Some take almost 2 years.

But to answer your question: I think your depression will lift up, if there is no underlying condition. But you have to give it time.

 

I have been had major clinical depression for over 20 years. No it's not easy.

 

of course it does. THe depression you feel right now is just your brain acting up for not getting any porn. as time passes by and you move on with your life, old unused dopamine receptors become active again to other pleasures of life. Your used the porn receptors so much, the rest of them shut down. Since you are not getting any dopamine now, you feel depressed.

It's all action and reaction. You consumed all that porn, now you pay for it. But it is all reversible, plus it will make you stronger. Keep your chin up.

 

I hate to say this but the pain is good for you. A little suffering teaches you a lesson. This is payback.

 

Fappy fappy
Nappy nappy
This is my life,
Because I am not happy

 

Hmmm I'm not comfortable saying, "Oh, yeah, your depression will totally dissipate after X amount of time" because, like I said, depression lies for its survival. If the depression can convince you "Yeah, I'm not permanent: you just have to endure me a while longer," then the depression will win. If it keeps tricking you into thinking about when it will leave, you'll never focus on the present, which is the only time you have the power to actually fight the depression 'n force it to leave.