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Flatline (when did libido come back for you?)

Discussion in 'Rebooting - Porn Addiction Recovery' started by David1221, Apr 28, 2018.

  1. David1221

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    Quick question guys
    How long were you in a flatline for before your libido came back completely. I've been fapping for 7 years but I've stopped. I'm on day 14 right now and I'm going to go on it for 6 months before any sexual contact.
     
  2. FeveR1

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    approx 35-40 days
     
  3. jorg78

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    Libido can come and go during the reboot, be prepared to have extremely low libido and extremely high libido during these days.
     
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  4. Libido won't come back as long as you keep your mind clean. Otherwise, it can come back with warm weather and or, real interactions with girls, like touches kisses and more. So its good that you have a flatline cause its easier to keep the streak. Even moorning erection do waste energy. You don't feel it but energy is used during erection.
     
  5. I had insanely high libido at your stage around the 10-14 day mark. I think I got to over 30 days, maybe longer as was not counting properly from the start but I am afraid to report that I lost control and relapsed in the shower last night.
    This last week or two I felt pleasantly calm and rested without an extremely high libido but still getting morning erections. I wouldn't say my libido was extremely low either but just at a nice flat-line level.
     
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  6. MarinoBigFan1984

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    I’m still flatlined. I think I’m in for a long reboot. 6-8 months
     
  7. MarinoBigFan1984

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  8. Can I ask what you guys mean when you say your libido has flat-lined?
     
  9. David1221

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    when you can't get an erection like you normally would, with a girl. Like literally no feeling, and just your dick not going hard
     
  10. Thanks David. Iv'e seen this term in a lot of posts here. Does this mean that after abstaining from any form of orgasm over a prolonged time that there is a risk of flat-lining? If so not keen!
     
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  11. David1221

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    It’s the other way around. Let’s say you’ve been watching porn for a while and you’ve tried to have sex and you just can’t get it up, abstaining from porn and sex for a certain amount of time would naturally bring your libido back up. Flatlining only starts in the beginning of abstaining, because your brain and dick is kind of confused
     
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  12. I see, thank you. I'm always learning on here :D
     
  13. Yeah. Flatlining is a good thing even though you feel shitty going through it. Consider it a transitional period where your brain is being reprogrammed from fake stuff to real stuff. I'm going through it now. Just let it ride when it comes and know you will be stronger on the backside.
     
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  14. MarinoBigFan1984

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    You literally feel and experience nothing. No morning wood, no random boners, you aren’t horny, etc.
     
  15. But, wtf. Are flat-lines supposed to happen? For what I know, random boners, morning boners and feeling horny are signals of high testosterone. If you don't have such boners, or low libido, it means that the testosterone levels are low. Ok, you may not have an erection with a girl but that is not flat-line (or low libido), that is a signal of PMO addiction.

    Are you telling me that nofap is going to make my libido getting lower and don't feel horny at all?
    There was a time that I got like 5 days without PMO and I felt horny as SHIT. I got easy boners at work by just looking at the asses of fat women. At the same time I felt like an energetic gorilla that wants to fuck everything. Prolonged nofap will make me a zombie?
     
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  16. My libido starts again after 80 days but with help of my wife. If i don't stated make sex with my wife maybe i continue to flatline.
     
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  17. Even in my flatline periods, I wake up with morning wood and sometimes have erotic dreams (especially at the start of streaks). But neither of those things are the result of my conscious mind. They are done without my initiating them. So I don't consider it a hormonal thing at all. To me, it's more of a cerebral function. When I'm alert and thinking, I don't have a desire for sex. Doesn't matter how high your libido is, if you aren't interested, you aren't interested.
     
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  18. Irshad

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    I get morning wood and erotic dreams too but there is very less libido in daytime. I have nocturnal emissions (wet dreams too).
     
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  19. MarinoBigFan1984

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    Last week or so had some morning wood
     

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