Yes, relapsing while doing NoFap can increase your anxiety, because of several different factors.
For starters, relapsing can make you feel regret, and regret always leads to anxiety. In some cases, regret can even lead to having repressed emotions, which can further complicate things. Other than that, relapsing makes you lose a portion of your NoFap benefits, which naturally means that your anxiety is going to start creeping into the levels it was before you started doing NoFap.
Don’t worry though, as a single relapse is not going to do much damage. Binge relapsing is far more dangerous.
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