Panic attacks
Yall. It’s a long story but just a few years ago I was jobless for 14 months from being apart of a massive lay off and living on the last of my savings. I was depressed and wasn’t sexually active for at least 10 months and didn’t watch porn for roughly 18 months. I worked really hard and tripped my salary, bought a house, and have been top of my new job for little over two years now. I’ve noticed my burnout several months ago and can’t keep up with my body and mind. I’ve been having severe panic attacks every day and dejavus of this being my last memory of “you’re going to die of a stroke or aneurism from so much stress”. It puts my mind in such flight not fight mode and my mind goes crazy. I’m working really hard to cut porn out of my life but I don’t use it as a sexual activity. I use it because it shoots dopamine and serotonin in my brain from ejaculation that really calms down my panic attacks. I tired using other things like music, phone games and whatever but end of the day my panic attacks are really ruining my life. I’m not saying porn is good for me but what I’m looking for is advice on how to calm these panic attacks of dying with something that gives me a stronger hit of calming down. Appreciateyall
I suffer from anxiety and panic attacks too. It’s tempting, very very tempting, to use porn as a salve…but, ultimately, it’s just adding to the problem. For me it’s about getting out of my head. Going somewhere, seeing people, doing things. The anxiety spikes beforehand but if I drive through that it feels much better afterwards. Often, I feel much more alive and less like I’m dying a slow anxious death. I feel like ‘me’ again. I’m by no means over it, but I do know that ‘doing’ healthy stuff helps. I hope those thoughts help you.