HELP! I am confused and stuck

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Lottie123

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I watched porn almost every day for 2 years. I started watching porn when I was around 14 and by the time I got to 16 I realised things weren?t quite right. I realised that my urge to chat to real life girls had gone down and my libido for real life girls had dramatically decline too. For this reason I decided to quit. I thought I was just shy at the time but looking back I think it was social anxiety. For the 3 years after I quit porn my confidence began to decrease along with my social anxiety. I was loving life. I was excelling at school and football. I was going out clubbing a lot. Kissing girls and my horniness was completely back and I had a desire to connect with everyone. Due to the regained confidence. I Got a girlfriend. I thought I was recovered and there was nothing more to it. When we met up, we would have sex 5 times in a day and when we started the new university together things started to get worse. We would have sex multiple times in one day which put me in a flatline for the rest of the week which caused me ED and I even had to force orgasms sometimes. 10 months this consistent stupid hyper-sexual behaviour has put me into a state where my social anxiety has come piling back, I feel depressed and my libido has gone down again however if I wanted to I could still have sex. The weird thing is if I have one orgasm, I get a chaser effect of increased horniness and my brain keeps wanting more and more stimulation. One time I had 2 orgasms in one night and it was like my body was on a high, my anxiety and depression completely disappeared however, after a couple days, my body compeletely crashed into negative feelings again. During the past 2 years I have also relapsed a few times which may have had an effect too however, the last time I relapsed was about a year ago and I have not looked at porn since. Does anyone have any advice on this or experienced something similar?
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Lottie123

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I do not know I haven?t relapsed in over a year. When I first met my girlfriend and started having sex I thought I had no problems but little did I know I should have slowly introduced orgasm back into my life but instead I went all guns blazing. If you broke your ankle would you go straight into strenuous activity? I think I went too quick back to orgasm and now my brain has started to crave the high of porn again and because I?m not giving my brain a huge dopamine hit I?m experiencing all these negative symptoms. With that being said I can still get hard to a real woman and sex is pleasurable.
 

yesyes1234

Active Member
You get a dopamine spike after an orgasm or sexual stimuly. That's why you are experiencing a high.

The chaser effect comes because we are addicted to dopamine. Once our brain gets a boost, it wants more.

Later you crash because you've used up your dopamine deposits. With addiction our brains get wired to release very large amount of dopamine when we get our drug. The release however empty our natural deposits and after a certain time, we find ourselves in a defecit.

Dopamine is involved in a lot of the circitries that make us function, so being in a defecit is what gives the feeling of being "crashed" or flatline.

The baseline is: Give your dopamine system as much rest as you can. It needs to recover from having been overused from your addiction.

Good luck
 
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Lottie123

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So you?re saying I should abstain from sex even though I can have sex and it?s pleasurable?
 

yesyes1234

Active Member
No from masturbation or sexual imagery.

Sex is a bit different because we want to rewire our system to respond to sex like it did before we used porn which obviously includes having sex. But all the other stuff is unhealthy.
 

joepanic

Respected Member
there is a lot of info here in your 1st post  am i to understand you have been porn clean for over a year  and dont masturbate?
 
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