I HATE THIS

What would you like to be happening?

 

This may help you. This is a response from @IGY to @Arrohead:


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I can sympathise with you @Arrohead. A flat line can be frustrating, especially when it goes on for a long time. Btw, it is very commendable that you have gone nearly five months without masturbation or pornography or intercourse - great!

Is it unusual to have a flatline continue for this period of time? No, and the reason is your age in relation to your addiction. Listen to this physiology and pathology teacher who researched this area starting about ten years ago...



You will notice that it is young men that are those with the greatest problem recovering from pornography! That's right, the older guys recover more quickly than teens. Why? Because when you expose yourself to porn and masturbate to it a lot during puberty it causes changes in the brain (this is brain plasticity). You have been over stimulating your brain to artificial sex and mimicking sex by masturbation since you were 12 until the Summer this year, aged 19. That is massive mate!

The reason is because your entire experience with porn has been using high-speed internet porn (H-SIP) to stimulate you enough to get an erection, masturbate (likely using death grip), cum and orgasm. The older guys, during their adolescence used magazines and, maybe, VHS videos. Those forms of media are far less damaging than H-SIP. If you want the part of the video ^ that explains this specifically listen from 12.30-13.30. That is it in a nutshell. In your case, no one can say how long the flatline will continue. But your recovery may be half way through, no one can say for sure. Just try and be patient

 

Is flatlining causing this? I'm trying to understand your frustration with your flatlining period.

 

I get it now. That makes more sense.

Whenever our minds and bodies experience trauma, and really that's what we are doing by rewiring it, our emotions and the way our bodies react are going to be strange. The longer someone PMOs the crazier it will be. As the article I posted for you speaks of, younger guys have it worse than older guys like myself because you have had more years with high speed internet at your age and it has the potential to be harsher on you.

My suggestion is to learn to get comfortable in this season of discomfort. I'm not saying it will be easy. Find as much normalcy in this crazy time understanding mood swings may occur but remember, you are not alone in this. One day you will have control over what has controlled you.

 

When I feel I am about to give up I look at how many days I have come so far. I think of what would happen if I gave in and how I would feel after giving in.

I then look at my number of days (27 today!) and think of how I will never give up fighting porn and porn like thoughts for the rest of my life.

 

That is awesome!