Hello My dear friends! its been almost a year I haven't logged in the forum. now I understand why there are so many rebooting stories but not successful stories so much, this is what Gary Wilson had been saying before he passed away. "once the rebooters getting cured, they dont sign back to the forum to write a success story.
NOTE: I haven't fully recovered, BUT!!!: the progress is drastically good! so let me say:
Since past year the first biggest improvement I felt was in march 2022. for around 21 months I had had worst situation, no sign of life, depression psychosis, even 100 mg sildenafil wouldn't work for 21 full month!. even if I tried to imagine the deepest porn scenes I couldn't get erections. my dick was extremely shriveled/shrunk and cold with white skin. I had super attractive girlfriend but whatever she could do it didnt turn me on. I had literally hell while trying to have sex.
now Im on 1030th day of reboot, the things are drastically different:
* My depression is 1000000% gone, even I want to say I had been struggling with depression since age 16 (when I started watching porn) and I never understood why, now its all cleared up.
* very strange thing what I noticed is that my skin is very clear
* Im 100000000000% sure that workout may not cure you but it boosts up your curing speed and here is why - currently my libido is very high and I cannot resist to masturbate a lot weekly, when its too much I get like masturbation hangover and on mornings I have a killer headache, but when I workout at gym the next day I literally wake up like Frodo with sunshine(not even exaggerating) no headache and I feel something like I'm on the good drug or antidepressant. I feel 0 anxiety and even listening to music, breathing and walking gives me extreme satisfaction(this is related to dopamine regulation from workout) NOTE: workout will not cure instantly but what I thing it may reduce recovery time by 30%. for example if you workout daily you may get cured in 2 years instead of 3 years without workout.
* one biggest improvement is that girls are very attractive to me now. I haven't felt this since age of 16-17
* while I'm thinking about someone from real life I get hard erection, even while I'm standing I get it. it was practically impossible before. and the strength of erection depends on how much I masturbated in recent days.
* masturbation has a slowdown effect for sure. NOTE: it will not worsen your situation like porn but it will slow down your progress, to much masturbation gets me back to mini flatline like 2-3 days. before this progress, masturbation get me back to 2-3 months of flatline so this is a big deal for me.
* another thing what I can say and the biggest one is that life without porn changes you drastically, it will destroy your self doubts, depression and anxiety, life is good without porn, it literally makes you a different person.
* lastly, the best news, FORGET EVERY DOUBT, YOU WILL BE CURED! I haven't gotten completely cured and you may ask why can I trust you or how can you be so sure. here is the thing, when I started reboot journey, I had soo bad situation that literally I couldn't feel my penis, mentally I had extremely extremely bad situation, no attractiveness to girls, right now when I think about it I'm very scared to get back to the day 1st of reboot journey, I can get erections by just thinking about sex, can you imagine how good it is? also my penis is 95% times full, warm, thick etc..
when im out of mini flatline I literally can masturbate 3-4 months daily and I get only 2-3 days mini flatlines, while in my darkest times one masturbation used to send me to 2-3 months of flatline. also another effect is something like literally changing in your mind, let me say, you dont get confident about sex, you are just thirty of sex, when I was in the beginning of my reboot, I had zero confidence and I used to think I will get confident later on, but when you are getting cured you dont think about confidence then, you only think about how tasty would be a good sex, you just crave for sex, when you think about sex, it gives you very good sensation and hunger literally, also another good think is when you masturbate or have sex you dont feel depleted, headache or anxiety, instead you get the same feeling like you have after a good meal, full and satisfied.
another argument I have is that Im afraid of thinking something sexual because im not used to control it(because Its been a very long time i havent had real libido) so even if I think about something sexual, I get very big urges to have sex/ masturbate (but not about watching porn)
now I understand how I was a real slave of porn, and I had been living in a dark, depressive world.
another argument, I have an online friend from reboot reddit page, he is from brasil and he has been helping me already more than a year without any single payment or anything, what he really asks me is to help others to defeat this hellish sickness, he used to reboot for a fucking 6 years!!! and finally he got cured!
If you still have doubts some info about me:
I used to use porn for 12 years and I was literally impotent for fucking 12 years from 16 to 28, I thought I was faulty or something. and I was not just a regular porn user, I was a heavy porn user. when I used to binge use porn I would continue fapping every day unless my libido depleted till zero and used to go to months of zero libido. now I feel something like I havent felt for 12 years. I had severe depression and anxiety. literally severe for these 12 years, I couldnt sit on a chair without repeatedly moving my legs and feeling extreme headache and depression. now Im super calm and I havent had this kind of good responsiveness to sexual thoughts, it literally gives me hard erection, only thing is it doesnt last long without manual stimulation, so I think even another couple of years will completely cure me. Im saying couple of years because I prefer to aim for a long time rather than say in a month i will be cured. it can be literally in one week but im not hurrying.
also whats my thoughts are and I STRONGLY BELIEVE is that, PIED is not a sickness/illness, it doesnt damages anything, what it does is literally just using all of your sexual energy. its just like mana points from games which recovers very slowly. I strongly extremely strongly believe in that. all people have their libido pool like mana pool. for example you have 1000 mana point pool on default. you need at least 800 mana points to have very good erection and sex. every time you have sex you lose 200 points of mana, then it slowly recovers. but when you watch porn and masturbate it will make you lose 300-400 or 500 mana points. and the worst part is that when you have go to zero mana points and still masturbate to porn ,what it does further is reducing your mana recovery rate to lets say 0.5 mana per day. this is why it takes sometimes years to go back to 1000 standard points. and if you workout daily it may boost your mana recover to 0.8 mana points per day.
Lastly, I beg you guys do not despair, Ive been in your shoes. do not focus on how long will it take for you to recover, instead TRUST THE PROCESS! and focus on the belief that it will cure you 100%
Good luck!
I will keep you posted!