So I?ve been addicted to porn for a long time. I decided it was time to give it up and went on a month streak. The first week of two was great, more energy, more motivation. The whole deal. Then about two weeks in, I started having less energy than when I was fapping. I become this emotionless husk. Depressed anxious, tried. It seems to increase the longer I retain.
I work out, eat right, and do everything I can to develop a good life, but I feel awful. I spend hours looking through reboot accounts for people saying how bad it got, in a search for any semblance of reassurance that I?ll feel better.
The worst part is when I did release on day 32, things got much worse. Anxiety, depression, body pain. It?s like abstaining has made it so my body can?t handle releasing anymore. I didn?t have this when I was fapping a lot. It feels like I?m being punished for abstaining. I had really bad pain in my hips and legs, and skin irritation on my legs and arms. I felt like I just drank a pot of coffee, minus the good effects. I was literally shaking. My mood went to a dark, blank place of despair. I just laid there feeling like shit.
the next day my anxiety was through the roof and continued for a few days a long with the pain and depression.
I tried nofap years ago and I had the same distressing symptoms. It's actually how I developed fibromyalgia, which I struggle with to this day.
So I don't know what to do, abstaining seems to make my pois worse. I've tried loads of stacks and although some things help, nothing gets rid of it completely. It feels completely neurological to me. Like my body can't handle or process the dopamine system rewiring or an orgasm.
Did anyone else get pois after trying nofap?
