hey guys, I was reading some posts on guys like me who are in really long flatlines and I want to give my two cents on the topic. First my story. I’m 24 now and I’m rebooting since 1 year and 3 months and I’m in and out of flatline the whole time. I had a severe porn addiction. If I could I would spent hours on my computer very day masturbating or just browsing for porn. Not only that, my internet use in general was compulsive in every way. I would also daydream for hours about certain situations or about women/porn. I never had a relapse or anything I don’t care about porn anymore. My first problem is, the moment I use my phone or computer, it doesn’t matter if I’m browsing in the internet or not, I go in a flatline again and that’s every time. I’m a Uni student so I have to use my computer from time to time. I even took one semester off and during that time I got out off flatline. My second problem is that even thinking about certain stuff makes me go into flatline even when it’s not sexual. I think that’s connected to the daydreaming. So i don’t know how to get out of that cycle, it’s literally impossible to stay away from electronic devices in our age, unless you become a monk for real. So my theory for all the long flatliners is that you still act on your addiction behavior and you enforce pathways for the addiction in your brain even if it’s not porn directly but it’s similar enough for your brain. Which is dilemma since you can’t get away from internet especially if you work in an office. But I also was reading in this forum about some guy thinking all of this is psychosomatic and that we have a wrong mindset. At the end I don’t have any idea anymore. I have girlfriend which Im rewiring with and sex works if I wasn’t using my phone or computer to much and didn’t daydream about stuff. So i think we are all still enforcing something in our brain so that this shit isn’t going away. And other guys get out of flatline easier because they "only" watched porn and didn’t have any other thing they did compulsive. The only thing that made my recovery better was sex and cumming with my girlfriend, but it’s still not gone. Those are just my two cents.
Say strong guys!
Say strong guys!