I will break it down from month to month. Will go in detail on the first month, because there were a lot of changes.
Progress
Month 1
Day 1 to 7
- Clarity of mind (Zero mental fog)
- Strong sexual urges to PMO
- Extremely comfortable in social situations
- Drive
- Motivation
- High energy
- Happiest I’ve been in over 10 years!
- No anxiety
- Open to new experiences. Everything seems so new and exciting!
- Insane mood swings
- Crystal clear mind
- Felt like a kid again, but with the manliness testosterone gives you
- Insomnia at day 6-7 (extra: on day 7, i noticed some hair grew on my back)
Overall, the first week was also a roller coaster of emotion, but felt really good that week.
Day 8-14 (Transition into the flatline)
- Slightly Lethargic
- Less energy
- Less drive
- “neutral mood” to everything
- Some mental fog
- Less need to socialize
- Occasional feeling of isolation and depression
- Some anxiety
Starting from day 15 <Flatline>
- Extremely low libido
- Almost no random erections
- No urges to PMO
- Depression
- Anxiety
- No energy
- Feeling of loneliness/isolation
- Fear
- Racing thoughts
- Sleepiness during the day
- Heavy mental fog (Can’t think straight/creatively, forgetfulness, memory problems)
- Social anxiety
- Everything is dead and I see no beauty in life
- Numbed pleasure response to everything
Month 2
<Flatline>
Month 3
<Flatline>
Month 4
<Flatline>
- Decided to do one MO intentionally at day 104 to see if libido would come back. Nothing happened. (The flatline is very scary, I was desperate. I read on YBOP that this worked for some people who experience very long flatlines)
(I will reset my counter after I’m done recovering. For now, I want to keep it to keep writing reports, and one MO is really not significant at this point)
- Insane urges to watch P (They come and go)
End
Considering I’ve abused PMO for the last 12 years of my life (since age 8, ’till now at age 20), I know it’s going to take me a longer time than others. When I say “abused PMO”, I mean that I was addicted to pleasure, and used PMO to stimulate myself throughout the day. During my early teen years, (13-16), I would go 5-10 times a day watching P and MO’ing. At about age 19, I couldn’t PMO as much anymore because I couldn’t even get it up to P anymore. It got to the point where I’d PMO even with a half-erection just to get the dopamine release. An O wouldn’t even satisfy me anymore.
Good luck. I’m still going through hell. God, it’s mental torture. I sure hope this is all worth it in the end.
Stay strong.
LINK – 120-Day Breakdown
by anch098
UPDATE – 8 MONTHS
No urges to watch porn, yet constant flashbacks of it?
It’s really bothering me. I’m in a flatline and for some reason I can’t get the flashbacks out of my head. It’s been 8 months now and they’re occurring ALL the time. It never leaves me alone. Months ago these flashbacks occurred and I relapsed because they “tempted me” to watch porn, but now I don’t feel like watching porn at all, and I’m not tempted to, but these images keep flashing anyway. I feel so disgusting.
They’re not all necessarily memories of porn though. Most of the time my mind just drifts off on its own and starts imagining somebody I know performing in these porn flashbacks/fantasies whatever you wanna call them. Like seriously. Will I ever imagine a woman in a pure way? Like ever?