I have never thought about masturbation causing anxiety. I can remember back to being a teenager and I remember having really bad anxiety and being super shy. Being single I turned to masturbation and now that I think about it that was probably the start of my terrible streak of anxiety. I am now 39 years old and just figured out the root cause of my anxiety and I am looking too put an end to it. I have an extremely high sex drive and it can be hard to fight the urge when stimulatory material is put in front of me. I am married with two children and it greatly affects my relationship with my wife. My first goal is to not masturbate for 30 days. Then after that 60 and so on. I want to put an end to this.
Married with kids, lucky. I'm not even 18 yet with your same problems but I have no friends, I'm shy and a loser. Good luck.
Good luck , I found my anxiety has greatly reduced I can look people in the eye with calmness and confidence. yes , I think that's what was causing a lot of my stress and anxiety .
The shyness will go away. Just remember not to be afraid of new things. Go do something that you've never done before that you think you might enjoy. It's your mind keeping you in one place and telling you that you are a loser. I went through the same thing and got through it okay. I'm still working on things but it's still better than how it used to be.
