This. I had severe addiction and PMO'd at least 2-3 times a day for a long time (substituted drug addiction with pmo, unknowingly ofc) it was bad.

After about a week into my streak not only was I able to look people in the eyes again, I held strong eye contact and conversation was free flowing and I even cracked jokes and my voice was strong and demanded everyones full attention whereas before I would overthink everything in my head and end up not saying much at all. I had huge bursts of euphoria every day and I cleaned my whole apartment for fun, and enjoyed every second of it, afterwards I went for a run because I wanted to get in shape an experience nature.

I could go on forever about how I felt at first when I started this journey but if my above statement isn't enough then idk what is. I went from deep depression and anxiety to fucking seeking out social interactions with random people with great joy. My girlfriend "jokingly" called me superman everytime we met, and I did feel like it 100%

I called it superpowers back then before I got used to it and it god damn was superpowers to me, if people think that's stupid then they were not even close to my level of addiction and they have no right to tell me how to express my benefits.