Brain fog and ADD symptoms from prolonged porn use prevents me from sticking with tasks.

Yup going through the exact same problem here. I’ve had to commit myself to re-training my brain after years of neglect and letting myself be too dependent on porn.

one of the things that has helped me is approaching myself with a lot of kindness. I don’t get frustrated if I relapse anymore.. I sit down with me emotions and give myself a hug and encourage myself to keep trying

when I do get tempted, I try and give myself 5 minutes to reflect on why I want to watch porn. A lot of the time, it’s an emotional self soothing strategy.. so I convince myself of other ways to self soothe

hope this advice helps!

 

The fact you’re managing 10 minutes is great!
And every day you can work your mental stamina up..

Set yourself achievable goals.. and remember to reward yourself a lot!

give yourself a treat for doing 10 minutes of work.. and next time, aim for 15 minutes and treat yourself after that too, etc etc

 

I also experience this. It's been an ongoing development, but it's getting better. What I've found best is, of course, keep doing your best to stay clean. This problem always is much worse after a relapse. But then after you are in the day to day, just do your best to make an environment free of distractions. I use blockers(Cold Turkey) to block everything except for a whitelist for school. Generally have a good spot to work, I go to public spaces like coffee shops, libraries, and universities, that helps a lot. Then once there, just work for what you can. At the start it really can be just 5-10 minutes at a time, then give yourself a time for your mind to collect itself. This can take 5 minute or sometimes more itself, then have another go. During this, I just let myself feel my mind lose grasp, let it wander until I feel I have that grasp again. Occasionally I'll get up and go for a walk. I remind myself that focus is like a muscle, that I injured that muscle with porn, and that if I just do my therapy and exercises it will get better, and even strong one day.

 

I have been there. Life is just dulled over. It definitely sounds related to the damage to our brains whole dopamine system that porn does. When I find I have that going on, I do a dopamine detox, where for a day, sometimes two I don't use any screens, no sugar either. Just friends, family, books and other healthy activities(exercise, hobbies, walks, etc, just no artificial super stimulus). It helps to speed up the healing, but no matter what it's just time. All you can do is accept that things are going to suck for a little while, and that the only way out of it is to go through it.

 

I know exactly what is a brain fog, unfortunately i felt it so much during P consume sessions. After i engage with short streaks of 7, 10 days i started to develop a better mental clarity, self-control and the wish to push more days, make longer streaks.

The activities that helped me to erase brain fog (i guess the worst symptom for me) were learn a new language, do physical exercises and talk with people (you can start with the ones you know). Wish you the best.

 

The brain fog is real. I certainly feel more awkward, clumsy and unfocused after I relapse. Others can feel it too it seems, making it worse.

Make sure you recover by having good sleep, good diet and staying away from dopamine inducing activities.