Nervous 90's

Dream_nofap

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last night, i don't know what the hell happened. I was studying and suddenly I felt panicked. Did i just had a panic attack?  I had panic attacks in past and judging this one I feel that it was mild one because in the last one i was hardly breathing but still my heartbeat became extremely quick and in the afternoon i cried just after watching a TV commercial. it was not that emotional, i don't know why but i just cried.

I watched in Gabe's video that he too cried in the reboot but i am just 3 days in after relapse. Probably the previous failed reboots did not go waste as i thought them to it. What i think is that it will not go waste, the failed recovery attempt i mean, a few relapses will hamper the reboot process but it will not go waste. all we have to do it to keep going and try not to relapse. Relapsing is bad, a setback but the effort is not going in thrash; it is counting.

Well, i think that is to it. 3 days in; and i am crying. Welcome to the grind!
 

Dream_nofap

Member
Frnakly, i am too depressed to write anything today. mood swings are terrible. i just noticed if i hadn't been a jerk and didn't relapsed then it would have been 30 days today. I wasted 30 precious days that nno machine, no money can bring back. I have to change it. i need to change this shit.
I need to change myself from being that procrastinator duffer into someone productive. Heck, I need a life. that's what i need.

I am so frustrated right now.

Ugh! 
 

Dream_nofap

Member
Happy one week.  This is the highest I have reached in one month.  Took  a lot of time and streak needs to carry on......  I Mam doing good today.....  Hope it follows.  I actually do not have anything to say these days because I am stuck in daily routine and chore.....  Life is going Monotonous....  Will excerice from tomorrow regularly.
 

Dareius

Member
Hey man,

you are doing great. Just keep going man. I understand your mood swings really well, I get those too and it can be rough to break through those.

Very nice that you got that one week again. You will make it! I know it.

Just keep on going.
Cheers and good luck Dareius :)
 

Dream_nofap

Member
Thanks dareius.....  Your Words inspire me.  I am doing OK but I find some porn images popping in my mind these days even when I am studying.  It is irritating.  And the main problem is the lack of concentration and occasional depr
depression that creeps out of nowhere. Well,  withdrawal have a way to disturb you.  I guess dealing with them will only make you more strong....... 
Thanks everyone for your continuous love and support.....  I'll keep you guys posted... 
 

Dream_nofap

Member
10 days...  Finally! I would not say that they were easy but they were necessary.  It feels so good to complete the initial 10 days....  Now the aim is bigger.  To reach 30 days and I am not going to screw this over......
Yesterday I had a big urge for smoking and I even went for it but I realized that I had not brought my wallet with me so I could not buy and later the urge was gone.  So I was a moment away from relapsing but my forgetfulness saved me. Thank god! I was going to make a blunder. 
My friend is suggesting a porn video that he liked and he wants to show me.  I am stalling him but he keeps on mentioning it.  Must have been good one but if I watch it my chances of relapse will increase.. I am fearing that.  He is leaving tomorrow and I have to resist till the end. 
It's good to see that I Am resisting.  Few months back o would be dying to see that video. It's good to see this I am standing up for something.... 
 

Dream_nofap

Member
first wet dream of the season. It was a pretty strange dream but it is ok. i kind of slept all day long and  I had  a hard time concentrating on things. I have a big exam coming up and I had to do well in it. The PMO makes it a little difficult to tackle. Guess i'll have to study from tomorrow seriously for it. I also feel a little depressed and shaken down. I don't know but i do and also there is a fear in my mind these days that careerwise I'll be nowhere. I want to get out of this ad do really well but what is keeping me down, holding me? I have no idea. My procrastination or what, I have no clue.

Wish someone slap me and put me to work........ sigh! 
 

Dream_nofap

Member
P subs are a problem. I used to think that a steamy scene in TV or in a movie won't be enough for me but Dopamine starved brain can go to any limit I realized after watching a few episodes of a famous TV show. Damn! i hooked on the internet, not at all watching P but I would say P subs. ( when you are only searching the actresses not the actors, it will definitely qualify as P subs).

Brain is totally fucked up and I feel like now I am dying without a hit. It has become very difficult to control and the bad thing is that I edged too.  :(

I feel like I was never that horny before. My mind is saying to me, "Watch some, watch some!" and I am like "Are you nuts? I'll have to reset." It is making me crazy now. I have at this moment like no concentration and no will power and i have this big exam coming up.
UUUUHHHHH!!!! It's frustrating to see this ...... any suggestions?
 

Dream_nofap

Member
I am very very depressed now.....
I have like no drive, no motivation ... nothing. I feel empty and I feel like shit.... Just watched Gabe's video about withdrawal. Felt a little better but did not took that part really well when he talks to take the withdrawals and be comfortable with them. I feel like i am close to shit.... I read other guys journals. They seem to be merry making and I am dying here! was my P use that severe or no one writes their true emotions?

This is shit! this is completely shit! and this is the longest I have ever been without been P in the last few days.... I realized that back at the time I was hooked on some type of it. Be it through literature or some TV series or anything..... but this time I was really 13 days clean..... and here is when the panic starts... forget about libido... since i have no girl in my life currently, it can wait but i have no drive to do anything and this is what scaring me the most. I do not know how to tackle this. Also, the dreading feeling that is haunting my mind for some days is (which now is becoming more prominent) that I will not account to anything in life. I will a complete waste and I will be nowhere in life, not anything of significance. While my peers and rest of the family will be happy and peaceful, I will lead an oblivious life, detached with them and will die jobless, in remorse and in complete destitution.

Hell, I want to cry so bad..... And there is no one I can cry on to... NO one I can share myself to. Even if it was substance abuse I could have come clean to some one but not with this,.... IT will destroy my reputation if I have any left. I'd like some prozac if i can get it.

I don't want MO or anything  I want something so that I can get through this..... .
 

TobyTob

Active Member
Withdrawal I feel is different for everyone, and porn may not be the only factor here. My brother went through the same thing as I did only he was diagnosed with clinical depression, and takes medication to boost his mood, and it seems to be doing the trick. When reading your last entry it seemed to me that you spend a lot more time thinking and worrying on your feelings than actually acting, and that's why we need outlets and people to talk to who get us on a positive level of thinking. You also have to remember that everyone has had those feelings of worthlessness, and the worry that they're a failure and everyone will do better than themselves, I know this because I've been there, and occasionally still think this way. I had to accept that fact that life wasn't going to serve me a successful future on a silver platter by sitting around letting porn take over my life. No one that I know who is successful, had an easy time getting there, they put effort into their work and effort into forming relationships. One big thing that is critical in recovering from porn addiction is COMMUNICATION, and putting yourself in an environment that refuses to let you relapse. I don't know enough about your current situation and lifestyle to give any legitimate suggestions, but that's where communication comes in. I'm more than happy to talk privately with you, or if not me, then someone else who will raise your self esteem and not make you feel like shit. Hope this helps.

Also recovery takes time, and that fact that you're feeling like shit when recovering from both porn and cigarette's doesn't surprise me, that's a brave battle your fighting dude, and I applaud you for that. Just keep reminding yourself why your fighting to be better in the first place; what are your goals?
 

Dream_nofap

Member
TobyTob said:
Withdrawal I feel is different for everyone, and porn may not be the only factor here. My brother went through the same thing as I did only he was diagnosed with clinical depression, and takes medication to boost his mood, and it seems to be doing the trick. When reading your last entry it seemed to me that you spend a lot more time thinking and worrying on your feelings than actually acting, and that's why we need outlets and people to talk to who get us on a positive level of thinking. You also have to remember that everyone has had those feelings of worthlessness, and the worry that they're a failure and everyone will do better than themselves, I know this because I've been there, and occasionally still think this way. I had to accept that fact that life wasn't going to serve me a successful future on a silver platter by sitting around letting porn take over my life. No one that I know who is successful, had an easy time getting there, they put effort into their work and effort into forming relationships. One big thing that is critical in recovering from porn addiction is COMMUNICATION, and putting yourself in an environment that refuses to let you relapse. I don't know enough about your current situation and lifestyle to give any legitimate suggestions, but that's where communication comes in. I'm more than happy to talk privately with you, or if not me, then someone else who will raise your self esteem and not make you feel like shit. Hope this helps.

Also recovery takes time, and that fact that you're feeling like shit when recovering from both porn and cigarette's doesn't surprise me, that's a brave battle your fighting dude, and I applaud you for that. Just keep reminding yourself why your fighting to be better in the first place; what are your goals?

Thanks TobyTob. That was really helpful. I totally agree with you on the part that I think too much and act less. Haha... That is actually a family problem. I'll try to deal with the problem more now rather than just sulk to it but sometimes it becomes too much burden for me to take. I have very low communication with my friends and family as I live with my sister in a cramped apartment in a different city and all my friends live in a different city. I did not tell my sister of this, I don't have the guts to tell it but I talked to my accountability partner and he cheered me up. I am feeling better now. It's just that I lost my cool now. I was never this way, Atleast the guy I know for 10 years who loved porn was not this way. I guess I am also rebooting emotionally.

Feeling depressed is a part of the reboot and it will come and go. I now understand what Gabe meant to love the withdrawal. I'll try not to wine more and kick ass in future.
 

Dream_nofap

Member
Today was another day. The only difference was that I woke up with an erotic dream but did not ejaculate. This is some serious shit going on..... Why are these erotic dreams haunting my mind? It was good to see that I made it to 18 days and I am doing fine. I feel great now.... no problems but I still feel that I can do much more in my personal life and in my exam preparation. I will try to do my level best in it. After all, it is not just physical recovery, it is recovering from all the negativity that is holding you back...
 

Dream_nofap

Member
Today I got my results of first exam. I didn't made it. Fuck! I thought that I'd be on the verge of it but no, Hell, I was way below from passing. this is shit, this is completely shit. I worked hard on it, i did but yes, somewhere I know that I could have worked harder. I did not do enough, I did not do everything I could so that I could have passed it. Well, In the race of "Only the fittest will survive" or "The best may win" I somewhere lagged behind. Now I have to go for a retake in December and It will be my final take. I have to make it through this time. I have like no other option. I have got now 2 exams in December. 

Also, I smoked my first cigarette in two months. Yeah, I know you would say that I broke the cycle and have to reset my counter but hey, Let me tell you something amazing! I gave in because of the depression of the results and I felt better to give in to cigarette rather than P and when i smoked it, It felt completely foreign to me! At times, instead of thinking of the results, I was thinking what the hell is this! It was a complete piece of crap to me.... and it gives me hope that one day P will be the same to me. I am waiting open arms for that day. I do not feel cigarette was a relapse on this counter but more of it like felt that I was now ready saying it good bye. I feel happy on this note.
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So now I'll be all preparing for the retake. I know that I can make it through, I have the potential. All I have to ensure that I do make it through.
 

Dream_nofap

Member
Today was my exam. it did not go that well but it is ok. This was not the one I had prepared for. There is a little bad news. I was so tense that I mo'd. I know it was very bad of me but the bigger blunder is that chaser came and I mo'd again today. Though I sincerely think that it was not a hamper to the reboot and if even it was, then it was not a major set back. I geniuenly feel I could have done a good job to prevent it but as you know, shit happens and it happened.

The thing is that I get tensed and then the slip happens. It is hard to leave the dopamine high. I today was reading some guy's journal and there he had written that there is difference between abstaining and quitting. No matter how hard you abstain, you will fall to it and break in but quitting is when you truly accept that it is not a part of your life anymore. More like a break up rather than separating. I knew this somewhere in my heart and I now I am 100% convinced that I was abstaining from it. Mr Awesome had the same problem, he was restraining and I guess this is the first mountain to climb in this process and I guess most of us fail in this part. This is the accepting part, the part when you come true to yourself. The reason we all guys are here is because we do not have problems in our dicks, we have  problem in our minds. The brain is fucked and is so numb and we are so much deep into this shit that it has become our comfort zone. It takes a lot of considerable effort to get out of the comfort zone. And that is what we are 'Abstaining', we are not QUITTING!!

Now the question arises WHY? why can't I quit this fucker all from my life. Why can't I go back and l've rest of life away from it? Why can't I give myself a chance to make up for the addiction that cost me my glorious teens, those 10 years? Why? I don't see why. I just don't.

(sigh).... Probably I feel fallen but I am not angry with me. I pity myself for not knowing the reason, for not knowing the WHY.. 
I want to do things you see, I want to be someone and achive great things in life but what is pulling me down? What is not shooting me towards summit? Why I can't be like one of those great men? But I do not have the answers to it, All i have is another why.

Maybe one day I'll have my answer, the only thing that I fear it; It should not be too late by then!
 

Dream_nofap

Member
The only achievement I have is the success with cigarette addiction. Great, now the aim is of  90 days. I'll keep it up with it.
 

Diesel driver

Active Member
Hi Dream_nofap,
you're going into the right direction.

Studying is hard even for "healthy" people and many rely on hard drugs like ritalin to get through. In my opinion a sign that the education systems sucks. I consider myself lucky if I can make it through this semester.

Don't mourn for your teens. You did what made sense to you and your mistake is reversable.

Cheers!
 

Dream_nofap

Member
Thanks Diesel Driver. I'll keep these in mind.

OK... So new development here. I had suspected that I could be suffering from PE  based on my limited sexual experience so I have done research, read a lot of forums and judging the success stories I may have a solution for this. Most of all, no matter how much I try to improve my life, I have completely failed in it not because I could not keep up but because of lack of consistency and will power. After 27 days of no PMO I realized that I have wasted so much money on therapy and other stuff only to realize by myself that porn was the real culprit. That is such a pity. Too much blaming on porn will also be not right but yes, it cannot be denied that it did not played a significant role. So, the plan is as follows.

MARK III :

1) First of all, I am promising my self that I am going to devote more time on studying rather than wasting my time on daydreaming and on internet. I need so much to do and so much to cover, I cannot be wasting my time, I can't afford it. So, I will make a timetable and stick to it. This is the right thing, education should not and cannot be compromised.(I am also quitting humming Pink Floyd's We don't need no education  :p  )

2) I will try to practice a nice and good healthy lifestyle. I cannot stay away from junk due to the reason that I am a very bad cook but I will try to minimize it as much as I can. Lot of  fruits and vegetables will be in my diet from now on.

3) I will try to take responsibility of my own actions. It is time that I learn this thing, not blame my mistakes on others. I clear or not clear the exams are result of my own doing and actions. I have to be ready for all things that I can do and should do to make my life better. Any missed opportunity is my fault not of someone's.

4) I cannot be on drugs, painkillers or any such shit all my life. I have to accept that porn (or any other thing) has desensitized my brain. Brain is like any other body part but the thing that makes it so important is that it controls all body parts and that is why it is so important. I will take sincere efforts to keep my brain healthy and productive. It cannot be done overnight but with right and considerable efforts you can achieve whatever you want and that is what I intend to do. I have decided to practice mindfulness meditation. I will keep aside 15 minutes in the morning and 15 minutes in the night for it. It is difficult to attain instant results so I'll have to be disciplined about it. Frankly it is same as a reboot.

5) 10 weeks no MO. My chaser is gone and I can think more clearly. I'll not now jerk for 10 weeks starting from today. In these 10 weeks I will also regularly do kegal Exercises. The thing that led to my relapse was that I kept dreaming about sex (not P). I'll have to stop that because it leads to relapse. After 10 weeks, I'll see myself. If I feel right about everything, I'll MO for 1/week just to keep the fluids going but this time not only I will MO with no P but I will try not to cum in some minutes but delay ejaculation by putting controls on my thoughts. The ejaculation should be as delayed as possible and should of held back as much as you can. In few weeks due to no P, the brain will automatically rewire itself. However, I'll try to search for a partner during that time because rewiring is also important. I hope for the best.

This is the plan guys, This is the strategy, Make your life better guys. Do everything in your power to make it better, after-all it's your life and you live only once. On closing note, Do not abstain from P, truly understand that you have a problem and quit it.

Cheers! 
 

Dream_nofap

Member
I have like zero motivation right now....
I think the MO hampered my progress. I should not MO at anycost and now my urges to watch P has also increased. I have protected my laptop with k9 and my device with some other software and blocked all means of P. Atlesst for 28 days I will not be able to watch Porn. (Thank god for that!)

Now all I have to do is to have self control. I need to go back and start from day 1 I guess. I took up nofapp challange and have installed it's app on my phone. I can make it. First cutting out porn and then I have to cut out M totally from my life.

Let's see. I got off this far but too many ejaculations have ruined my progress and you cannot cut P if you MO. It takes time for the brain to completely get over the process of P images in your brain and now I haven't have morning woods for a while. It is bad to see that I lost 30 days worth of improvement for some moment's pleasure to escape tension.

I need to learn to hold back the urges. This is a quite lonesome journey and you have to fight it alone. Hope so we soon get over it....
 
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