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General POIS Discussions / Re: Schizophrenia and POIS

« Last post by SchizoPIOS on April 15, 2024, 05:43:34 AM »

Hey thanks for the tips,

I have been considering keto and carnivore, although I tried keto once for a diner years ago, ate loads of butter and eggs and meat, like actually so much fat, I felt really really calm and for once actually satiated, but when I took my meds that evening it gave me very sharp headaches, supposedly the keto diet can have an effect on the medication according to the psychiatrists' that recommend it. Regarding carnivore, I feel really bad without sugar/carbs after a while, I think animal based diet makes the most sense, I don't want to restrict any types of food, because legit I've had times where every single type of food made me feel good, even things like bread, but most of the time I eat a 'normal' meal, basically meat with grains and a side serving of veg, I always kind of 'regret' eating that much plants, my mom cooks for us, and I just wish meat was a bigger portion of my plate, but I have no problems with plants, sometimes I even crave veggies, but when your plate is 3/4 plants, you kind of feel full but not satiated, and your stomach just feels 'airy'. So yes thats why I really resonated with your animal-based protocol, it makes the most sense for me, animal foods really make me feel the best, especially beef, but at the same time I know not consuming carbs will also make me feel like shit, I just think I should consume more meat and less plants/carbs but not fully restrictive.

Regarding meditaition and all that stuff, actually I used to meditate a lot around 2015 and I think that made my symptoms a lot worse, nowadays it makes my thoughts even more rapid and have a lot of intrusive thoughts. My mind is probably too crazy to meditate at this point, but I can relax whilst watching some videos and streams.

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General POIS Discussions / Re: Schizophrenia and POIS

« Last post by Warrior on April 15, 2024, 04:59:18 AM »

Also in my videos I talk about many techniques I used to calm my mind down when my symptoms were really bad. So you could also utilise those for the time being until you identify things that help improve actual symptoms.

- Meditation - feeling emotions, labelling & dissecting different elements of your experience, concentration work
- Breathwork (pranayama, wim hoff)
- Letting go (the sedona method)
- Stoicism philosophy

Just thought I'd mention these to ya if ya haven't already watched the vids

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General POIS Discussions / Re: Schizophrenia and POIS

« Last post by Warrior on April 15, 2024, 04:50:30 AM »

Oh also as you probably heard me say in my video, my symptoms were so extreme at one point that I had a fear of getting schizophrenia. The auditory noise became so loud. My brainfog was so intense. My imagination was creating intense fear and social anxiety. Combine this with weed and you have a recipe for hell if you haven't already. I'm completely recovered from that reality and have been for a loooong time. My 'auditory noise' increases when my D3 gets low. B complex vitamins, SAM-e, red meat, eggs, and AB diet, revolutionised my mental clarity, calmness, and confidence. In hindsight, my brain must've been severely depleted in these key nutrients - today they form the bulk part of my POIS methodology.

Thats insane that you say this and really give me tons of hope, the times when I was off-meds I kept telling and yelling at my parents telling them this was just a nutrient deficiency or chemical imbalance, unfortunately my beliefs went the wrong way and thought it would be solved with raw fruits and veg, instead of animal foods, oh god was I wrong.
Anyway thank you for replying!!

Carnivore/keto and animal-based diets can be incredible for cutting out foods that tend to worsen inflammatory conditions. Autoimmune/chronic disease alike, it's somewhat common these elimination diets can improve disease symptoms quite significantly. I'm obviously biased, but that has certainly been the case in my direct experience. I have equally made huge strides at improving my food sensitivities. So my journey has really been one of 1) rapid experimentation, trial & error 2) rinse and repeat / step by step improvements over time.

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General POIS Discussions / Re: Schizophrenia and POIS

« Last post by Warrior on April 15, 2024, 04:46:15 AM »

Im obviously in a bad mental state, theres so much on my mind right now and I forgot to mention two things,
first of all the natural treatments that you guys have said worked, such as Niacin, B Vitamins, and animal-based diet are all treatments that have shown improvments in Schizophrenics.

Further more, Schizophrenia develops between 18 and 21 in Males, and around 25 In Females, this is around the time Testosterone and various other sexual hormones start to decline, and when myself and most other guys have POIS develop.

There was a book I found a while ago on some other forum, an old kind of esoteric book that stated schizophrenia was caused by the drop of sex hormones, it was a old book, the author was an old lady with a black and white portrait, I was not able to find it on google although there are some articles about the link between hormone fluctuation and schizophrenia: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00693/full

Hey man that's all good. This is an authentic forum for POIS sufferers of all kinds. You should feel safe and free to talk about your experiences. Most people who get POIS have some very nasty mental symptoms, so I would say the majority of us understand at least to some degree the mental hell you're going through.

I heard that ketogenic diets in particular may be effective for skitzophrenia. Not a doctor tho, but might be something you also want to look into. Keto or carnivore (keto but exclusively meat) would be, in addition to animal-based (which runs off carbs from fruits/dairy) would be useful exploring.

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General POIS Discussions / Re: Schizophrenia and POIS

« Last post by SchizoPIOS on April 15, 2024, 04:44:41 AM »

Oh also as you probably heard me say in my video, my symptoms were so extreme at one point that I had a fear of getting schizophrenia. The auditory noise became so loud. My brainfog was so intense. My imagination was creating intense fear and social anxiety. Combine this with weed and you have a recipe for hell if you haven't already. I'm completely recovered from that reality and have been for a loooong time. My 'auditory noise' increases when my D3 gets low. B complex vitamins, SAM-e, red meat, eggs, and AB diet, revolutionised my mental clarity, calmness, and confidence. In hindsight, my brain must've been severely depleted in these key nutrients - today they form the bulk part of my POIS methodology.

Thats insane that you say this and really give me tons of hope, the times when I was off-meds I kept telling and yelling at my parents telling them this was just a nutrient deficiency or chemical imbalance, unfortunately my beliefs went the wrong way and thought it would be solved with raw fruits and veg, instead of animal foods, oh god was I wrong.
Anyway thank you for replying!!

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General POIS Discussions / Re: Schizophrenia and POIS

« Last post by SchizoPIOS on April 15, 2024, 04:41:16 AM »

Hey mate! Well first of all welcome to the community. You've been on a long journey. Let's at the very least celebrate that you've finally made the connection between ejaculation triggering mental symptoms / having POIS lol. So many people don't even get to that stage.

Here's my non medical advice - coming from what has worked for me in my direct experience battling POIS:

1) You want to relentlessly test everything, beginning at this page. I would also recommend you get comprehensive nutritional testing done. Most important nutrients to check / tinker with imo are D3, methylation nutrients (B complex vitamins, SAM-e, choline, eggs), vitamin C, magnesium. Also play around with diet. My condition does best on animal-based (strictly meat, fruit, eggs, dairy, and fish) but I have made good progress at improving my food sensitivities as well. Some people find going gluten-free is enough - I found this to be just the beginning of improving symptoms from removing sensitive foods. Also explore the r/POIS subreddit - lots of interesting anecdotal things that help people over there as well.

2) Until you find something that works to improve your symptoms, you should work on abstaining at least to some degree to keep symptoms at bay and live a normal life. I did this for years off and on until I realised I had POIS and was able to get a lot of relief through my protocol. Look into info on semen retention, non ejaculatory orgasms, sexual energy transmutation techniques, yoga, etc can all be helpful for this 'lifestyle.

This might not be relevant but I want to add this here seeing as your story contains weed as a theme. I used to smoke a lot of buds when I was younger (around 15/16) and could tolerate it completely fine. At that stage of my life I didn't have POIS - until I turned about 17.5 or so. Once I got POIS, the effects of weed became a lot more unstable for me. Since then it's been incredibly destabilising whenever I smoke it. I think there might be some kind of connection between POIS & weed, but who knows. I don't get these destabilising effects from psychedelic mushrooms (apart from obviously heroic doses which are more 'naturally' destabilising lol)

Thanks yeh, I literally discovered this website and the POIS subreddit 2 days ago, I have loaaaads of stuff going on my mind so just need to calm down and gather my thoughts, at least it feels like im on the right track, I will try your protocol for sure, especially the diet and also abstaining or at least limiting the release frequency.

And I have to say, in your video you said you were paranoid of schizophrenia, lemme tell you bro, you dodged a huge bullet by quitting weed, good job. I have a hard time with addictions, wether it be weed or masturbation, I dont think thats the case for you, so good job!

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General POIS Discussions / Re: Schizophrenia and POIS

« Last post by SchizoPIOS on April 15, 2024, 04:36:35 AM »

Im obviously in a bad mental state, theres so much on my mind right now and I forgot to mention two things,
first of all the natural treatments that you guys have said worked, such as Niacin, B Vitamins, and animal-based diet are all treatments that have shown improvments in Schizophrenics.

Further more, Schizophrenia develops between 18 and 21 in Males, and around 25 In Females, this is around the time Testosterone and various other sexual hormones start to decline, and when myself and most other guys have POIS develop.

There was a book I found a while ago on some other forum, an old kind of esoteric book that stated schizophrenia was caused by the drop of sex hormones, it was a old book, the author was an old lady with a black and white portrait, I was not able to find it on google although there are some articles about the link between hormone fluctuation and schizophrenia: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00693/full

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Lifestyle Diary and POIS Summaries / Re: Warrior's Journal (My POIS Solution, Experiments, & Theories)

« Last post by Warrior on April 15, 2024, 04:32:50 AM »

Hi Warrior, I made a post about my experience with POIS, I really relate to your experience especially your 6 year journey video, please have a read, btw Im in a very unstable state right now, I think you now what I mean, so apologies if it doesn't make too much sense and theres also a lot more things that are on my mind that I did not talk about.

https://poiscenter.com/forums/index.php?topic=4517.0

Thanks

Hey mate all good! I know what it's like to feel really unstable. I hope you find things that work for you soon! You have so much to explore and test from this website alone!

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General POIS Discussions / Re: Schizophrenia and POIS

« Last post by Warrior on April 15, 2024, 04:32:02 AM »

Hey mate! Well first of all welcome to the community. You've been on a long journey. Let's at the very least celebrate that you've finally made the connection between ejaculation triggering mental symptoms / having POIS lol. So many people don't even get to that stage.

Here's my non medical advice - coming from what has worked for me in my direct experience battling POIS:

1) You want to relentlessly test everything, beginning at this page. I would also recommend you get comprehensive nutritional testing done. Most important nutrients to check / tinker with imo are D3, methylation nutrients (B complex vitamins, SAM-e, choline, eggs), vitamin C, magnesium. Also play around with diet. My condition does best on animal-based (strictly meat, fruit, eggs, dairy, and fish) but I have made good progress at improving my food sensitivities as well. Some people find going gluten-free is enough - I found this to be just the beginning of improving symptoms from removing sensitive foods. Also explore the r/POIS subreddit - lots of interesting anecdotal things that help people over there as well. But yeah, it's really all about listening to your body and just rapid-testing everything. It can be a bit expensive, but it's totally worth it in the long-run. I've spent probably more than $7,000 on supplements alone.

2) Until you find something that works to improve your symptoms, you should work on abstaining at least to some degree to keep symptoms at bay and live a normal life. I did this for years off and on until I realised I had POIS and was able to get a lot of relief through my protocol. Look into info on semen retention, non ejaculatory orgasms, sexual energy transmutation techniques, yoga, etc can all be helpful for this 'lifestyle.

This might not be relevant but I want to add this here seeing as your story contains weed as a theme. I used to smoke a lot of buds when I was younger (around 15/16) and could tolerate it completely fine. At that stage of my life I didn't have POIS - until I turned about 17.5 or so. Once I got POIS, the effects of weed became a lot more unstable for me. Since then it's been incredibly destabilising whenever I smoke it. I think there might be some kind of connection between POIS & weed, but who knows. I don't get these destabilising effects from psychedelic mushrooms (apart from obviously heroic doses which are more 'naturally' destabilising lol)

Oh also as you probably heard me say in my video, my symptoms were so extreme at one point that I had a fear of getting schizophrenia. The auditory noise became so loud. My brainfog was so intense. My imagination was creating intense fear and social anxiety. Combine this with weed and you have a recipe for hell if you haven't already. I'm completely recovered from that reality and have been for a loooong time. My 'auditory noise' increases when my D3 gets low. B complex vitamins, SAM-e, red meat, eggs, and AB diet, revolutionised my mental clarity, calmness, and confidence. In hindsight, my brain must've been severely depleted in these key nutrients - today they form the bulk part of my POIS methodology.

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Lifestyle Diary and POIS Summaries / Re: Warrior's Journal (My POIS Solution, Experiments, & Theories)

« Last post by SchizoPIOS on April 15, 2024, 03:39:54 AM »

Hi Warrior, I made a post about my experience with POIS, I really relate to your experience especially your 6 year journey video, please have a read, btw Im in a very unstable state right now, I think you now what I mean, so apologies if it doesn't make too much sense and theres also a lot more things that are on my mind that I did not talk about.

https://poiscenter.com/forums/index.php?topic=4517.0

Thanks