http://www.indianpsychiatry.com/dhat..pdf

I thought this was interesting because it describes symptoms so similar to those reported by heavy porn users. See Wiki: http://www.reuniting.info/withdrawal_symptoms_porn_recovery

the last time i had orgasm I held back, I can have an orgasm, and not release the dump of what feels like a dose of a great drug. It feels good, but i can still talk and walk and move around. So the husband was in the mood friday, i tried to deflect and stay up, he stayed up, so its against my nature to deny my man of any pleasure. He performs oral, and it took me some time but I had a controlled nice O. I was good. I told him I was afraid to, that I didn’t want that release. As though I had put him up to a challenge, I swear he was after it.

Here is an interesting thought that I read somewhere. Alas, I can't recall the source.

If we accept that our behavior with our wives or sweethearts deteriorates immediately after an orgasm and that this "hangover" lasts at least a week, let's examine how many orgasms we might be advised to have in a year's time.

Suppose the hangover is like taking a week's vacation away from your wife or sweetheart. After all, she is not getting your best during this hangover period.

I am posting a link here to a short article by Dr. Stanley Bass in which he explains the stimulant - depression mechanism at work in addictions and compulsive habits. This article seems particularly significant to this site as it seems to explain a similar phenomena to what Marnia describes as the hangover (withdrawal) effect. I thought others might find this worth reading. In particular, the insight into how the stimulant is sought to medicate the depression (which was caused by the stimulant) seemed most significant.

http://drbass.com/addiction.html

I felt the first twinge of an urge today, but it was only that and it passed.

These past days it's been the fatigue, brain fog, mild headaches and need to overeat that have been the problems.. still coping with all that... perhaps these symptoms aren't connected, perhaps they are due to something else, or perhaps they are orgasm hangover symptoms. I never even knew you could get an 'orgasm hangover' until I came here.

Tools developed by forum members:

http://www.reuniting.info/node/2084

Here are two tools developed by forum members:

http://www.reuniting.info/node/2084

Over the past half year, I've been having orgasms about once a month when alone (this is pretty unbelievable to me), more when I hook up with someone. As I mentioned, Goldenheart and I had a week of orgasms, to see what it would be like to go back to that way of lovemaking. I've been actually pretty surprised at how strong the hangover was, as I've not really felt much of a hangover from the few orgasms I've had over the past six months, and so was beginning to doubt the whole theory. I have felt irritable and a bit mentally unstable, perfectionistic, haughty, snobbish even.

This is the result we had recently of creating a tool to allow people to track their own withdrawal/hangover symptoms. Eventually we would like to turn this into an online tool, but for now we have it in .xls format. You can download it and use it, provided you have Excel or OpenOffice. It contains instructions for how to use it, but if you have any other questions, please post them here.

Also, if you fill out your sheet and would like to contribute your results to our collective research effort, feel free to email a copy to Marnia.