Anyone else here flatlining/has an almost complete loss of libido?
Ever since I quit smoking pot nearly a year ago, my sex drive is pretty much nonexistent. I've tried noporn, doesn't really help. Well, might make me appreciate clothed women and their curves more, but, still don't really get turned on. I just got a gf (though it's long distance for now) and even when I'm sexting her, I just don't really feel turned on all that much and it worries me. Wtf am I supposed to do when we meet and I can't even get hard unless she's already blowing me, maybe. I've tried nofap, am currently trying it. My record was about 2 weeks, I'm on day 10 or 11 now. Literally, the only difference I'm noticing is that my nuts smell more, lmao. I might have a little more energy than usual, but I'm not sure if that's just a placebo. I've heard this is called "flatlining," on other websites, can take anywhere from weeks to MONTHS to recover, of not fapping, and of course no porn. Anyone here experience that? Not fapping for months, and getting your libido back that way?
I know my problem isn't low T, I got that checked, day after I fapped too so I made sure it wasn't at it's highest. I've been thinking, maybe it could even be anxiety/depression? I do have some sort of panic disorder, feel anxious on and off. But it usually doesn't bother me much if at all. I don't even think having watched a ton of porn as a teen is the problem either, never ever had trouble getting hard watching it. Quit watching it regardless. I know it's not good for your brain. And it's been almost a year since I smoked, so, I know I have no pot in my system messing things up. Pls help. I used to be okay with the idea of not having much of a sex drive, I mean I can get more done not being focused on it; now it's just like what the hell is wrong with me, I know it's not normal and I know it could be a problem in any relationships I have.
Also, I'm worried that not fapping will cause my dick to atrophy, I think it's called. Basically I'm worried if not using it will cause it to shrink, or my nuts to shrink. Idk if that's a meme or not but it's a legit concern.
Christopher Walker
>It’s been a year so I know no pot has been in my system to fuck things up
Pot isn’t like that and don’t do a fucking drug without knowing consequence. Your body probably doesn’t know how to get horny without drugs so serves you right stoner rard
So what you're saying is the issue is more than likely neurological/mental? I mean, that's the only conclusion I can come up with. Whether or not nofap would cure that, idk.
Jonathan Stewart
unless you have like an injury or something, it's very likely mental. Your worries about dick atrophy clearly point to anxieties.
Joshua Fisher
When does masturbation become seriously unhealthy? I’m fapping 8-12 times a day and I’ve never been hornier. Sometimes when I wake up my boner feels like it’s gonna explode and if I don’t jerk off I get an intense sharp pain in my lower abdomen as the blood rushes back into my body
Fair enough. So, nofap doesn't really serve a purpose for me, orrrr? Just get my anxiety sorted out and I should have my libido back to normal? I know you're probably not a doc or therapist or anything but hell any help at this point is good help.
Chase Thomas
>hey i tried not touching my peewee for 1 month >still no pussy >shit is fucked LMAO better keep fapping #neverchange
James Moore
dick health is strongly related to mental health, work on fixing your head, its not easy but its the most effective by far. To enjoy good sex you have to be chiiiillll
Caleb Taylor
Problem is, besides maybe yoga and meditation, I have no clue how to go about doing that.
Jace Rivera
try more stuff. Psychoanalisis its a good bet but youre probably brainwashed to hate it. Even mentioning it will surely make people call me a dickbutt. but if not that, try more stuff, see what is wrong spiritually about your life
Jason Miller
I honestly don't even know what that consists of... so can't say I hate the idea! At this point I'll try anything anyway, I'll look into and read about that. Something wrong spiritually with my life though? What do you mean?
Mason Moore
...Breh
Samuel Ortiz
You smoked pot before 21. That is bad, you don't have a full myelin sheath so you have brain damage (that will eventually correct).
You also smoked pot before 25 which means your prefrontal cortex isn't developed affecting decision making.
Try doing "fire breathing" which means breathing in really fast while thinking about a specific thing you want to change about your psyche. I don't know the whole program for "holotropic breathwork" but the concept for this was made by the doctor in the Czech republic that wrote "LSD Psychotherapy".
Since you've done pot you could also try LSD. but being under 25 and using it brings risks (maybe).
Anecdotally this worked for me. I never had much of a sex drive. I smoked pot habitually for a while and was hyper sexual but still autistic about girls so I just jerked off a ton. I did above and it fixed a good deal of the BS in my brain.
Jose Howard
It actually causes legit brain damage if you smoke before about age 25? I don't doubt that, I mean the people I used to smoke with were complete fucking retards most of the time. Fire breathing, as you call it, is basically hyperventilating as I think about something negative, or something I need to change about my thought process? (For example, taking things too seriously sometimes?) I'll look up what holotropic breathwork is, never ever heard of that before. >since you've tried pot you could also try LSD I'm not gonna lie the idea of trying even a small dose kinda freaks me out. Not only do I worry that it'll give me a panic attack that lasts for hours, lol, I'm worried about any other possible effects it may have on me.
LSD to cure low libido... Never thought I would hear that! If it didn't exaggerate my anxiety, I suppose I might try it, one day. Idk. I don't know how that really affects your state of mind. Completely uncharted territory for me, that I never really thought of looking into.
Josiah Sanchez
you'll need extended nofap. A couple more weeks at least. Until you're so horny that you can cum normally. Once you do that, you're good.
Hunter Wilson
Most everyone seems to think it's more of a mental issue, not really having to do with whether I fap or not... maybe it's both, idk. There's no negative effects of NOT fapping, anyway, right? Might as well continue for idk, 3 4 more weeks. Not like I feel a terribly strong urge to do it anyway.
Joseph Gonzalez
Simply read trip reports If you know nothing about tripping you'll probably find it super interesting how people have the most profound and spiritually significant experiences of their entire lives witnessing thd infinity of existence within themselves whilst tripping
I read about tripping for years before I actually tried it and by that point I was fully prepared and knew exactly what to expect All you need to do to never have a 12 hour long bad trip is to be in a safe, familiar area with someone sober who you trust completely Tripping is a balancing act and a bad trip happens when you stop balancing and give in completely to the negative side/spiraling bad thoughts So all you have to do is know that physically you are fine, and if you begin to think that you actually are dying for real then you merely have to accept that its okay to die. Everyone dies. Wait for it to happen, and it won't. But you might meet God before you get back to baseline and imo that can only ever be a good thing, the best thing there ever was in fact.
All you need to snap out of the start of a bad trip is to change your environment, play music or turn the music off, go to a different room, sit outside. Easy peasy
Ive tripped dozens of times and they have all been good save for DMT which I was not prepared for, but DMT is infinityx more intense than a low dose LSD trip
Owen Ward
try being 18 and never having a sex drive despite "normal" test range of 500
Christopher Young
Definitely good not to fap. Funny, I have a friend who said he had no libido while he was smoking pot, so I'm considering taking it up so I can nofap for a while (though I'm waiting till I hit 25). I need it for more complicated reasons than muh T.
Nicholas Bell
Not even, he said he has only ever in his life not masturbated for two weeks in a row. “B-b-but it’s not playing with my weener everyday guys!? What’s something else I could do?”
Parker Watson
>I've tried noporn, doesn't really help you haven't tried it long enough.
Logan Gutierrez
Okay, I'll give it a shot, reading about it at the very least. Thing is I get anxiety for literally no reason when I'm completely sober, so, you know; if it were to start when I'm high on LSD, uhhhh..... Even telling myself I'm really fine when I'm having a panic attack just doesn't work usually. But I might as well look into it if all else fails.
Oof. At least I've had one most of my life after puberty. Can't imagine NEVER having one, that would really freak me out.
Nope.avi Just, no. Don't start smoking pot, don't ever smoke pot. I say that as someone whose used it for years nearly every other day at least. It's just not worth it. I mean maybe once or twice a month is fine but every day to kill your libido? Don't, lol.
Perhaps not.
Cameron Lopez
Take arginine and find some comedy you like.
It’s an endorphin thing. Weed stims your endorphins so you’re literally insensitive to the world. Find something that makes you enjoy yourself, laugh, relax, have a good time.
And take something to reduce your cortisol levels- they should be elevated if you smoked long term
Mason King
>Anyone else here flatlining/has an almost complete loss of libido? I've been taking Zoloft for the past couple days and have 0 sex drive. I'm going to stop because the side effects are terrible for me.
Julian Kelly
>don't ever smoke pot [...] every day to kill your libido your anecdotal evidence is laughable. stop spreading misinformation. you have a problem getting hard a YEAR after you last smoked.
>never ever had trouble getting hard watching it do you not see the problem here? you've wired your brain to expect pleasure release from porn, not IRL action. if you can only get hard with porn then you absolutely shouldn't carry on watching it.
best thing you can do right now is quit porn entirely and fap anywhere from 1 to 4 times a week. as long as you stick to it you'll be back to normal in 2-6 weeks. you should also see your fuck buddy at least once a week as well to prevent anxiety.
Angel Smith
I definitely need to get into comedy, don't watch much if any. I really am way too serious, usually. Probably from being so introverted and anxiety combined. Does L-arginine come in powder form? I get stomach issues on and off, I heard that can be bad for it so would probably start off taking a half dose, if possible.
I can't even get hard watching porn anymore is my problem. I mean, I can if I force myself too, and I'm wacking off. But not just from seeing it, no. And okay, maybe I am A BIT biased against pot, lmao.
You're saying I shouldn't bother with nofap though? I thought it does serve a purpose. Think I remember reading on here T levels do slowly rise as you abstain, for up to like 2 weeks. Even if that wasn't the case, I've read of people on other sites doing nofap for a long ass time, and that somehow fixed their libido. How credible their claims are, or if it's actually the nofap that helped them though, idk.
Evan Robinson
eat flax/linseed mate. start with 5g a day and work your way up. there are some (including me) that get really fucking horny from it. incredibly so. should help you out. also, see a shrink because it might be mental. get your blood tested for hormonal imbalance
Levi Jones
it's not to do with T levels but rather psychological conditioning. you're trying to remove the association between porn and pleasure by not watching it anymore, and strengthen the association between real sex and pleasure... by having real sex. fapping is neutral territory which keeps your dick working, as long as it's not too frequent or infrequent and as long as porn isn't involved.
Joshua Howard
Hmmmm.... that makes sense. I think the site I read about this "flatlining," or complete loss of libido, was a website dedicated to teaching about the effects of porn on the brain, actually. >fapping is neutral territory which keeps your dick working Soooooo, fapping too little can actually cause problems as well? I figured as much.... it's why I mentioned my dick/testes possibly atrophying.
Logan Foster
maybe vanilla sex just doesn't do it for you and you have a fetish you have not discovered yet?
Joshua Adams
>Oof. At least I've had one most of my life after puberty. Can't imagine NEVER having one, that would really freak me out. I'm mentally Ill. My uncle was schizo and my brother is bipolar. We are just subhumans that malfunction.
"too little" means consciously refusing to provide your body with an orgasm when it needs one. this varies from person to person. the main issue is that having an orgasm after too long a break might be difficult or not particularly pleasant.
Austin Barnes
I wish it were that simple, but nahhhh. When I watched porn regularly even vanilla stuff was usually more than enough to get me off. Fuck man. I'm really sorry to hear that. Hope there's a way to fix whatever's wrong with you in time :/ Ah... so not fapping for a week or two is probably fine. But a month or even a number of months is just plain stupid. Makes sense! Thanks!
Nolan Perez
the more nofap is pronounced the more i want to masturbate to gay porn every time I wake up and everytime before i close my phone screen for bedtime
