Withdrawal and intense changes

Discussion in 'Rebooting - Porn Addiction Recovery' started by glory.indeed, Oct 18, 2019.

  1. glory.indeed

    glory.indeed Fapstronaut

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    Hello guys,
    I just want to ask how your reboot is going because mine get really intense.
    I am experiencing some withdrawals like nauseaus and problems falling asleep, mood swings and my body just feels weird. Hard to explain but overall things feel heavy. Not always and sometimes not too intense but still. I see this as a good sign because I can feel things are changing. My body changes and my mind changes. Are there some tips that might help to go through this?
    Are you experiencing similar things?
     
  2. Insomnia and mood swings are very common withdrawal symptoms, mood swings in particular are pretty much unavoidable. Nausea is a bit rarer but not unheard of. How far are you into your reboot? If you're over 1-2 weeks, these symptoms sound PAWS-related (Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome), which you can read about here: https://www.addictionsandrecovery.org/post-acute-withdrawal.htm
     
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    Actually I have these symptoms since day 1 or even day 0. This shit got part of my life. Yeah today is day 11 and man I have cravings. Nofap is really the hardest thing I can imagine.
     
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    Actually I feel like I encounter a mix of Paws and acute withdrawal symptoms.
     
  5. Im over 5 weeks in, and feeling leveled out. About 3 weeks in I no longer crave porn. And now im not really craving M either.
     
  6. In my experience it comes in bursts. So like I’ll be fine for weeks and then one week for 5 days straight I’ll crave it really badly. They are known as extinction bursts in behavioral science but basically when a behavior is no longer being reinforced with its desire like pleasure, the brain will go through bursts of extreme cravings for that thing(including all your symptoms) to try and get you to feed those neural pathways and keep the good feeling going.
    Your literally at war with your brains rigid pathways and habits.
     
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    I have a past with defeat when Nocturnal Emissions start to happen, yesterday was rough to convince myself that I should not seek release after failing retention while sleeping. Brain fog plus the boring day of the week almost made me gave in. I can become pretty vulnerable to urges when it's near the end of the day and I have not spent energy during daytime.


    Your brain is recovering from dopamine soaked circuits you conditioned yourself to live in after years of reinforcing this habit (If you PMO'd heavily, of course, I'm counting you already know the science behind the forum). By removing what your mind considered most pleasant, it is bouncing back through making the reptile side of you, instinctively search more of that. Pain can be a hell of a good motivator. It values the behavior that much...

    It's important to not engage in too much change at once. In the end of the day you are still an animal, a stupidly smart one. Be careful to not lead it to think you're endangering it's survival. Don't expect much of physical and mental performance, go with the flow a bit and if things don't turn out as good as you expected, let it be. This stage is temporary. In order to not forget what feeling good feels like we have to struggle some from time to time. A word which classifies something must work alongside other words at the opposite side of the spectrum. There can be no sense of wet without dry.
    This isn't a direct path or an uphill battle with only victory on the horizon, you will mess up a lot ▬ give yourself only the weight you can bare.

    Indeed. What you value, which may sound meaningful and worth the trouble to achieve will suffer a similar process. Don't let it influence your decision to face this habit.

    At some point I suffered from mild cognitive dissonance due to extensive attempts to deny an urge. People in my life needed someone they could rely on, the addicted me had to go away and give place to something else. What I'm trying to convey is that at some point, Something will rise inside of you and use the utmost of it's rhetorical ability to deceive the conscious you into relapse. You might have had a harsh day, things weren't working out by hand of fate and people got mad with you dealing badly with it. You deserve break, why not pixels on a screen, harmless is it not? Done. You actually bypassed THE
    offspring production system, there will be consequences on the long-term. Will they be worse? It depends on how well you know yourself to answer this, I can't help it further. I can just advise you to doubt and question the way your thinking patterns function normally.
    Saw too many people descend into the pits of regret while tackling this impulse, it warped my view of people. Don't ask why I bother writing shit like this. May have something to do with catharsis.

    Anyways.. things get worse if you don't pay much attention. But also, if you stress it too much the whole process can become counter-productive easily. What's crucial at this stage is to build momentum regardless of how bad you may start to feel.
     
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