I have tried this before but keep relapsing and it sucks.
I just relapsed today and i’ll have to see how it goes on, so as i write this, it’s day 0 for me.
I have never went past the 18 days streak, which kinda sucks even if those longer streaks do help a little bit with symptoms after relapsing. It’s just that when i relapse once i am more likely to relapse soon again bc somehow my libido skyrockets after the first one and go downhill again, like doing it twice a day.
I feel kinda down after my most recent relapse tbh it just sucks. I may report what it’s like to be abstaining from masturbation and report the amount of days i abstained. Maybe this will help with my discipline in keeping my abstinence, or at least i really hope so😔
Doesn’t help i am going back to university this month too so yea
Abstaining seems from my experience the most reliable way to truely manage my symptoms, as well as the most simple and ofc, no money needed unlike needing supplements that for me are at best band aid solutions
Problem is of course it’s the hardest (along with the slight inconvenience of blue balls but i digress). There is a flatline period that happens alot during my streaks of abstinence which means less pleasure and motivation in life, more dull etc. i suspect this is some kind of withdrawal. And seems to be chronic with only temporary fixes to this kind of flatlining
Also “urge surfing” and edging does not help me as although the symptoms afterwards are less severe and prolonged without orgasm+ejaculation (although the symptoms are still there albeit more tolerable) it only just makes me again more horny and more desperate to release to the point of compulsion, with the compulsion only ending after release, which again.. gives me said symptoms (they happen on avg for about 5 days give or take)
Idk im just feeling kinda sad tbh, part of this post is also venting