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Originally Posted by x123
It is often that way for me too. 
My go-to cure for depression is exercise, but sometimes I am too depressed for exercise. Sometimes I watch youtube videos of sexy women to feel a small bit of excitement and hopefully lift myself out of depression a little bit. Lately not even that works. I guess I am getting too old to care. I anticipate masturbation about as much as I anticipate cleaning my bathtub. Also masturbation seems to wear me out and depress me for days.
Of course it is different for people who are younger. There is all the sexual frustration to relieve and so forth. |
I wonder if the attitude towards masturbation may be the culprit. After I posted my last comment, I decided I accomplished a lot that day and that I'd
reward myself with masturbation, while I was already feeling good about myself, to feel even better- like drinking to celebrate rather than drinking to drown your feelings. I had a MUCH better experience, although I still had some angry, obsessive thoughts coming back that I was thinking before I started.