Feeling numb

Yeah man I think I had similar experience in my early reboot, I would say doing nofap just once has led me onto needing to complete it and see it through fully. Because you've given yourself a taste of another world without regular PMO and you've actually saved on some of your juice its been absorbed by your body.

Eventually when you abstain long enough you'll grow new dopamine receptors and really enjoy smaller experiences, I think you need to allow yourself to fully rebooted if you want to feel at the same release power in fact itll be more powerful. Anyway this is just advice based on a few of my own experiences i m not a doctor or a scientist

 

That period of low libido (sex drive) in which you are is called a "flatline." Not all men on no-PMO experience it (I didn't), but many do. It's normal. Don't worry about it. It passes. Don't fap just to test things out. That ruins everything by relapsing your reboot. I gather that you can know that you are "healed" from PMO addiction when you know that you have enough control that you have no doubt that you could continue permanently if necessary. When you reach that point, it is probably safe to resume a non-excessive pattern of responsible non-addicted MO without porn, if that is your wish. Some, on the other hand are aiming to permanently extinguish M or even both M and O. Some others, like me right now, are virtually rebooted, but don't know yet what we want for the long-term future.

 

No problem, I'd say you can start to assume you're 'healed' when you can feel the benefits that many talk about in a more sustained way. Also you can assume you'll be healed after 90 days typically, but its subjective. Ideally creating new habits consistently keeping up with them is a sign of healing.

It depends on how you define it for yourself. My first streak was quite pain free too, a little bit too pain free and got me questioning whether I was rebooting right, on this current streak I feel more of what the others of the forums say in terms of withdrawal flatline etc. You have to define for yourself how you feel during this journey.

 

No, it won't ruin all of your progress, but it might make you lose some of your progress in mental rewiring. It could also cause you to get excited and give in to MO. Your goal should be zero porn, even after you're completely done with rebooting. Once completely rebooted off the PMO addiction, returning to some MO can be acceptable if that's what you want. If you set a date to return to MO, your libido should rise a week or more prior to the arrival of that date. Mental anticipation kindles libido.