Are these Nofap symptoms?

Everything you described is what I’ve been going through too. I’m on day 9. The only day I had an urge was day 6, every other day it has been the same as you, no feeling whatsoever.

The anxiety and panic attacks again, been very frequent for me. This I had a real hard time with the anxiety for 8 days straight. I felt like I was going to die man!!! But by the time day 8 had ended, I started to feel a bit more like my old self. Today has been better still. To minimise the anxiety, try keeping busy and getting some other things done (away from the house ideally). You need to distract the brain. It is when you are thinking about what you looked at, as well as losing your usual stress relief, your brain throws all the toys out of the pram. It wants the porn - fact. But you have to continue depriving the brain of that to reboot. Whatever you do don’t relapse, it is a big mistake.

It is different for every one, but give it a few more days and your next high will come. The moment you get other stuff done, and start forgetting about porn, the brain gradually gets used to being away from it. But don’t expect it to happen overnight.

The energy and motivation will also come with time but with that will also come urges. This is when most people relapse. Do not give in to the urges. Whatever happens just keep going and look away, or do something quickly to lower the urge right down again.

 

No worries man, yeh the first few days of no PMO are extremely difficult if you don’t get out of the house. Plus it encourages relapse. Try occupying the days off with something that uses energy, for example the gym, going for a run, something else that gives you that dopamine and energy release that benefits your body. Porn is similar to alcohol, or drugs, it destroys the brain by making it want more. The sites you come over time in the addiction gradually become worse, and it affects everything from relationships, jobs, the worst thing is what is does to your head.

In short, keep it up and don’t look back!

 

The anxiety can be downright brutal, my man. It’s no joke. When I’m having a panic attack I try to remind myself that this is happening because I am winning and my brain doesn’t like it...it will pass.

Also I’ve gotten tired of paying hospital bills. I’ve had attacks so severe that I seriously thought I was dying...just for them to tell me I’m fine, go home.

 

Dude you are word for word the exact same as me, like literally 100% of what you said is me.

So with that I can tell you, absolutely the addiction is to blame for a lot of this shit. Some of these things could be caused by something else but its definitely made worse from the addiction speaking from experience but also research in the case of anxiety, depression, motivation etc.

All these things have become less prevalent as I've stopped PMO but I've had tons of relapses so its been a rollercoaster. Back in late May/early June things really got a lot better, everything was less severe from anxiety and depression to self hatred and motivational issues, everything was better to a pretty significant extant.

It did go back to shit again after a while because of withdrawal but I do still do days or moments where I feel great and regardless its definitely gotten overall better.

Thing is though withdrawal can come in the form of making all those things even worse at moments which can be horrifying to go through. As long as you understand that essentially what you're feeling in those moments isn't real you'll be fine. It does pass with time but also comes back over time but if you just remember that it isn't real it and just hold on it'll get better. It can be crazy though, it really can just feel like your life is ending but again, its not real, just the mind freaking out because it isn't getting its usual dopamine.

Also as for the feeling no joy in anything that's because of how your mind is wired right now. Basically the part of your mind that makes you feel good had been overloaded by PMO so it no longer gets triggered from the smaller joys in life and also gets you depressed because it isn't getting what it needs. Kinda the TLDR version but thats the jist of it. It also plays into motivation or lack thereof.

It all sounds horrifying but it'll fix itself over time as you stay clean so don't worry, just push through the pain and know that's there's light on the other side. I have such an appreciation for nature now and just how beautiful the world really is which I never even thought about or noticed since becoming an addict but now I do. I really can't even explain to you how much I seriously just love the world now, its so fucking beautiful. I mean shit, even just taking in a deep breath of some fresh air makes me feel good now... OXYGEN MAKES ME HAPPY

Just hold strong and keep pushing through the pain man, it does get better. Im still in the middle of all this and yet things have gotten 1000 times better, imagine what its like when you're out of the dark.

Never lose hope and never stop fighting man! Good luck!

 

That's why we are all here. We all need reassurance. Keep going, man.

 

I have 600 ng/dl testosterone, and still my sex drive is dead im 21 years old,

 

Do read this.
http://husbandhelphaven.com/porn-addiction-withdrawal-walkthrough/

 

How do you guys get so many replies? No ine replies in my posts.

 

Whatever's at the top usually gets replies and that's based off time. So if you haven't got a reply just reply to your thread to bump it up

 

Everything here, yes. The moment you get a high and start feeling good, he urges get strong, for me. That is when I have had to reset unfortunately. When I get to around the 20 day mark is when I keep failing.

The withdrawal suck, and when you reset it also sucks cuz I feel pretty physically and mentally sick after resetting. Very strong, hard journey.

 

I know how you feel with some of mine

 

Please read these dude:
https://www.nofap.com/forum/index.php?threads/seven-days-now-what.183685/#post-1566190

https://www.nofap.com/forum/index.p...ner-considered-a-relapse.178754/#post-1535885

That shitty feeling after resetting the counter is so common but it has almost no reason to exist.