I've been trying to stop masturbating for a few years now and I believe that I finally have developed the spirit enough to depart with it entirely permanently. However, I would like to discuss with my fellow Jow Forumsizens some of the behaviors and effects that I have observed over the course of those years:
>Out of Mind Experience
Perhaps this can be related to my fairly recent (past year or so) studies into philosophy, but whenever I begin nofap again I will have nagging habitual urges a few days in. Not arousal, mind you, but the kind of pull at the back of the mind that makes you wish to return home to ensure that you remembered to lock the door. When resisted, I found that I would have a prolonged mental breakdown of sorts, experiencing severe depression, anxiety, and more but it was as if I was observing the state of my mind through a screen. I was witnessing my own mental anguish from the third person.
>Visual deprecation
I found that everytime I would masturbate, I would suddenly seem ugly to myself. Even if nothing else changed in my behavior. Acne can, of course, be attributed to the buildup of oils on the face while committing the act, but muscles shrinking or losing definition? The eyes seeming to shrink back into the head and grow dark? And lips puffing up?
>Day ruin
It seems that for, at the bare minimum, an entire day after ejaculating, all willpower, sense of urgency, or drive to be productive is lost. I'm sure this is not uncommon, given the many posts I've read regarding similar experiences, but I feel that mentioning it is critical if we are to fully dissect the beast
Strange effects of NoFap
why is this stickied?
Very simpler to my own finding.
The more I realize porn is evil as fuck the stronger my feeling of disappointment when relapse.
I'm starting to believe that saving youth's from porn will be one of the great battles of our time
>Weakness
Post-ejaculation , the body becomes almost frail. A diminishing of strength can be felt, particularly strong in the legs, usually centered around the quadriceps.
>Odd urination
After ejaculation or when the erection is lost, the sudden urge to urinate occurs. There is typically a non-typical sensation associated, sometimes a sting. The expelled urine is usually cloudy, though I suppose this may easily be explained as the residue of semen being washed out of the urethra.
>go on nofap
>after a week I always hit the same point
>realize I'm not even interested in relationships right now because they're too much work
>don't even know why I do nofap
>break it and feel guilty
>repeat ad nauseam
I want out
I use to go months without fapping when I had a gf, now I cant go a day without fapping. Help
This is our board now janny, you little bitch.
When I start a nofap journey I can feel like master of the world. Keep going anons. We are all gonna make it.
On day 9 right now. Gonna try and make it through September. This is my last year at college and I don’t want to leave with anymore regret than I have now. Biggest reason for NoFap to me is that I usually can’t get hard to have sex so my n-count is super low compared to the amount of girls I’ve hooked up with in my life.
everything you just wrote down is a result of you thinking something is wrong with jerking off. If no one put this kind of idea into your thoughts, you would not be "feeling" any of what you just stated.
Think about that for a second philosophy fucker
I've had similar experiences myself. The few days in thing is very true. Getting to about day 7 I have a huge aggression increase and I'm very vibrant and it's as if my animalistic masculinity expresses itself more strongly. But something curious happens after. My impulsive aggression then turns into a calm stoic energy. I am less energetic but I actually require less energy for tasks.
My brain is quicker and I think clearer. I am more witty and I have more desire to interact with others.
And then once I reach 30 days shit starts happening which makes no fucking sense.
Keep in mind, if you lust and edge throughout the practice, the results will be diminished. But if you manage to keep a clean streak, the results are wonderful
Honestly. Do you guys actually explain to people the reason you aren't successful is because you jerk off and watch porn?
no.
then what is the point of all of this?
idk.
Man that's a lot of text, Im not sure Im surviving it
I'm literally identical to OP
I felt like that ages ago, before I even read about nofap. I knew something was wrong, which is why I was drawn to nofap
after a good jerk off blast i feel awesome i don't know but I think you have fucked up your mental state around jerking off and created some kind of fucked up fear response habit lol. For me I blast em out proudly and i shoot huge loads and feel great all the time
Hello rabbi
$0.05 has been deposited into your GBP account
I have had very similar experiences, especially with the habitual pull to look at porn and the increase in anxiety. I'm doing nofap for at least the rest of this month. We're all gonna make it.
Well I noticed I wasnt yanking my dick so i guess thats weird
This is the stupidest shit I’ve ever read
to be succesful through self improvement and elimination of self-harming behaviour, maybe?
dumbass
Try reading your own posts sometime then. Set the record.
Glownigger rabbi go wait for Iran to nuke you it can't be soon enough.
Why does cooming hurt abdomen after a period of nofap?
prostate goes HNNNGGGGGHHHHHHH to get all of the coomies out. idk happens to me as well
Muscle atrophy.
First one sounds like Chaser Effect. For me it's less arousal than an urge to "empty the tank." I get the other two as well. It's like the shame and lethargy come out in your face.
Anyway, good luck man, time to put this habit away. I'm a boomer now so it's literally quit my vices or do neck hangs 1xF so I'm taking it pretty seriously. Quit while you can! Younger the better.
I've been struggling with nofap since I was 16, four years down the road now and I've learned a lot about myself and honestly I don't have hope to ever "beat" pmo completely, even after 6 months of abstinence and great accomplishment and happiness, I broke and jacked off. I am still a virgin though, so I'm hoping fucking real girls will erase my desire for porn, but at this point I feel like i'd need a whole harem of women to satisfy my desires enough to make porn unappealing. maybe i'm too high test, idk.
its about to happen bros
Day 68 of no fap and i feel no difference at all. Still depressed and suicidal without a real sense of purpose in life. All seems vacuous and frail.
>inb4 low test
986 ng/dl
Done masturbate
Find a girl and make love to her
That's the cure
I meant *Dont masturbate
That’s the problem. I can’t feel connected to anyone and the thought to chase someone just for sex makes me vomit. Like if the pinnacle of my existence will be an orgasm. It all seems like an endless endeavor. I only wish to find someone which we can comprehend each other abstract feelings and basking in each other loneliness.
My goals are all naive pipe dreams and that is why i hate myself
Not to others but to myself and its true.
You're not alone. It's the broken society we live in. Still, we must soldier on and do what we must.
OP you are absolutely correct I've noticed similar things when I used to fap. Basicallly id become an anxious shell for 0.5-3 hours after fapping. Good thing is ive been on nofap for 326 days now and life has never been better.
Used to do that, mosty good friends but also some random which was weird. Opening up is a meme, maybe talking about something makes you approach it differently or realise why it happens, but no one is going to solve your problems with a magical advice unless they encountered the same situation and solved it. Better to be a good listener instead of forcing your sob story on someone.
Based coomer
Help!
My dick and balls hurt after just 5 days of NoFap.
Big similarity for me as well.
I've also noticed through some slips in self control that edging and then not cooming on nofap makes me almost vibrate with energy. Even without edging I end up with more energy - or maybe it's just that I'm so used to rubbing one out every single day that I'm just coming back up to a normal level of energy and being refreshed by it. Fapping definitely saps my energy though and makes me a lazy bitch, all I wanna do after I nut is grind in videogames and turn my brain off.
Unironically stop watching sexualized media and find a hobby
Haha me too bro i love blasting out a hot load onto my figurine collection haha its great and feels good and I take pictures if you want i can share, theres obviously nothing bad about coming all the time it doesnt make you retarded haha