masturbation and increase in anxiety/stress/panic

[I_HATE_ANXIETY]

I have been a HEAVY masturbator since i was 13. In my early to late teen years I was masturbating up to 30 times a day, YES 30! no lie.  when i reached my 20s it went down to about 10 times a day. I am now 27 and about 4 months ago I had a terrible panic attack and have been having anxiety and high levels of stress on  a daily basis since then. The symptoms have stopped me from maturbating so much, but I still do it maybe 2 times a day. I found something interesting though. 2 days ago I masturbated like 8 times in the span of 3-4 hours. Since then I have has ELEVATED anxiety/panic and stress symptoms.

I have a feeling that the chronic masturbation has caused an imbalance of some kind of chemical or hormone in my brain. I have had a simple testosterone level check and they found my T to be in normal range but DHEA to be very high.

Is the masturbation causing me the anxiety/panic episodes? if so, why  and what can i do (other than quitting sex/masturbation) to stop it?

[jonnybrown]

Yes. Take it from me if anyone. A year ago i had 2-4 a day and found it hard to talk about anything meaningful to anyone and it was only until september pf last year i felt the full effects of the anxiety caused by masturbating. In this case it lead to a temporary form of depersonalization (when a person feels disconected from the world and doesn't feel as if what's happening around them is real) after 1 month of this torture i decided to try the only thing i hadn't yet and that was tone down the masturbating. Now my life is great. I love chatting meaningfully, my wit is far quicker, confidence is up and i and great friends with girls and have the confidence to go out and pull at weekends. If you want to turn your life around and get confidence and sharpness back tone masturbating down to once every two days at least. I swear you'll love the person you are. All masturbating excessively is doing is covering up your confidence and personality. Please take this advice. It'll be the best thing you've ever done with your life. Hope this helps bud. Head up and resist temptation.

[RandyJM]

Dude wow crazy story ! I went through the same scenario, except for the prrescription pills, I was a heavy pot smoker and one night I was so anxious to smoke some pot I got me some good grade A weed, after smoking it, I was feeling very strange and very weird, everything was looking strange to me, I couldn't comprehend my surroundings, luckily I was with my sober best friend, I passed out on the couch, I couldn't feel my legs, they were shaking like crazy, so he called an ambulance, I arrived to the hospital all they gave me was an IV and hour later I felt normal. Another day I smoke again and the same thing Happend.. Again to the hospital, so by the fith time they said I needed to stay at a physco room, first night they gave me these pills, I don't recall the names.. I went bananas.. I started weeping and calling for god in a dark room with nothing but walls.. It was a horrible feeling.. So after 2 weeks I got better they suggested I take some therapy, I skipped the therapy, and i quit pot for good! Then i got into depression/panic attacks.. I started working and met a female and din't get the panic attacks ever again .. Just little depression... 8 years later i quit my job female left me n now I'm suffering from anxiety/panic/depression.. Oh and yes I remember a lot of times during sex I use to get these crazy panic attacks , and I believe it was from feeling guilt.. Anyways, so this preset day I'm going through some harsh times with anxiety, panic attacks, I been going through this for 10 yrs now !! It ***** .. I don't wish this for no one in this planet !! :/

[Madwand2]

I would follow up on the Zinc suggestion as well as add in magnesium (crushed form and with milk or water as to avoid affecting your bowels). Magnesium allows your body to create seratonin which you could be low on. Magnesium is used when you are under a lot of stress/ors. As well you may want to add in vitamin B complex 100 2x a day.

Although I have only been on B100 and Magnesium for about a month my anxiety levels have reduced considerably. Read about how to relax as well as cognitive based therapy CTB to help you notice but not react to your anxiety symptoms as if you react you always have the strong possability to make it worse and spiral into a full blown panic attack.

When you masterbate are you sweating a lot?  You could be losing mag and sodium and your ejaculate will have mag loss too.

Other good readings I would suggest are What Doctors don't tell you about anxiety... And the magnesium miracle or magnesium factor. 3 good books that have helped me tremendously with my anxiety that popped up out of nowhere a year ago. I wasn't a serial masterbator, but I was on a diuretic and I work out a lot , run a lot and sweat a lot during sex and as we'll during aggressive masterbation.

I started with Zoloft and it helped a lot. I now know how to control my anxiety to stay at the small symptom levels instead of a full blown panic attack and am now off if that and just taking vitamins with mag 2x a day and 5-HTP which helps out a ton as well. I also release stress through running reading and other relaxing things. I don't use stimulants except for ginseng and only use pot once a month to relax not for a full blown high.

Best of luck and please report your progress

[robertw66]

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[robertw66]

This is a really interesting thread. I don't have Anxiety as most of you have, have never done any drugs, cigarettes, alcohol or anything. I have masterbated alot in my life since age 13 or so, tho not nearly as much as many have mentioned her. At the most once or twice in a day. Though not consistantly. Spent hours looking at porn wasting time. I have epilepsy and it was completely controlled by medication for much of my life except every once in a while I wouldhave a partial complex seizure (I black out and end up crawling around the house.) I've come to find that their is definently a connection to the activity of the masturbation/ejaculation/orgasm though it feels so good and it causing me to have a partial seizure. I've gone for periods of time where I didn't masturbate, and didn't have a partial seizure. I never connected the two till sometime in the last 5 years. I began to notice when I went without a partial seizure, that when I did have one that I had spent ime masturbating for a couple of days. In someone with epilepsy seizures usually stem from a from a cell somewhere that is damaged, kind of like a peice of wire that has had a peice of insulation removed. If you'v ever touched a peice of electrical wire and peen shocked a bit like a sting, There are electrical pulses that go throughout the brain and when they trigger through the dammaged cell the misfire to wrong places. When there is alot of misfireing there can be a buildup of the electrical impulses which have no where to go and so the spiral out across the outside of the brain and cause the seizures. Takl about fatigued afterwards I ma have tosleep for a day sometimes to recuperate. I'm 46 and recently married. My wife has bipolar disorder depression and anxiety. She says she has never had an orgasm. I have been trying to get her to let me give her one and we have tried a couple of times. After we stop she goes into a sever panic attack. It's made me think about the difference between men and women in their sex organs. A womans clitoris has more nerves packed densly than a mans penis. More women struggle with anxiety and depression than men do. Could it be that maybe a woman is stimulated by her clitoris without sexual contact but from walking and when she is laying down on her side her clitoris is under pressure from her legs. It may not cause an orgasm but they without knowing it may be enough stimulation to cause the cronic fatigue many of them have. My first girlfriend and I had a year where once I learned how to stimulate her to an orgasm, we were having sex every day. I wish we would have gotten married. But as I look at porn where I see some of these young women constantly hving orgasms, I am beginning to wonder and maybe feel sorry for them because of the consequences they may pay later in life if they keep it up as a career. Not that all of them are really orgasming. many are faking for the camera I think. I recently read that 58% of women admitted to faking orgasms and having sex to get their hubbys to do extra work around the house.  

[edgyboy]

30 times a day? Its a wonder you didnt drain yourself and the damn thing didnt fall off (Portnoy's Complaint).

I am sure this has to have some impact on your system chemistry and the rest of your plumbing equipment.

I read a long time ago that body zinc levels lower as you ejaculate. Try a zinc supplement then go to town brother.