Live in a monastery temporarily?

It doesn't matter which one you choose.
What matters is your intention.
Both could alter your life only if you truly commit.

 

What happens when you decide to come back to a normal life?

 

What order runs the monastery?

 

Hey man, take a look at Vipassana. It is a 10 day meditation course that is quite intense. You live like a monk and learn what meditation is. Not how to meditate, but what meditation is, which is a more important question. It doesn't only help deal with an addiction, but gives you a better understanding of all your suffering. There are Vipassana centres all over the world and registration fills up very quickly. It's all done on donations so you don't have to pay although it is always a good idea to give something so that someone else can have a go. If you have been thinking about living in a monastery then this is really worth looking into.

 

To be honest it might work in the short term but in the end you will relapse again. I joined bootcamp over a year ago and I had a 4 month streak going on, but as soon as I got my laptop it was all over, the same old me came right back. What I realized is simply abstaining will not help you, you can be sober, but not free, it requires an identity shift, finding out who you truly are and what you stand for, way easier said than done, for me finding my identity In Christ is what I needed.

 

A couple of days, won't do you any good in neither of those places.
Sadly, it takes a longer time.
Months. And unfortunatelly few of us can affort to live in the nature for months. I mean time is precious, you probably have a job, family friends, you cant just ditch for months.

 

I personally know a person whose addiction God cured in a monastery. The persons addiction was heroin, he went to the monastery and prayed, fasted etc.

I also know another person that had that addiction. Went to prison, to doctors etc.

Out of those 2, who do you think has it better now?

 

Fasting and self control "cured" their addiction.
I'm putting "cured" in quotes, because addictions cannot be cured. (You can just stay clean from it)

 

I think under these circumstances, that's totally acceptable to a new employer. Maybe just don't mention how well you did in that rehab to your employer!

 

I can’t speak for every employer or industry, but a 6-month gap during this global health and economic crisis on an otherwise good CV would not raise any concerns for me. Especially if you are prepared to comment positively about your use of this time, if asked. Good luck!

 

Well, I still think 6 months is a lots of time, and if you can, you shouldn't waste it. I mean you are young once in your lifetime.
But, since you seem to have no guidance, and no ideas what to do with your 6 months and you can affort to move in a monastery , and since you seem to like the idea, you should do it.
It will be hard, you will most likely fail the strict rules. If you do, and you get thrown out, you should immidiatelly find a rehab, and get locked up as long as possible. Because, if you do short terms, and return to your current lifestyle, you will be in this same situation again and again. You may waste your life with a short break from society, failing, rehab again, failing and you will get locked up in this cycle.
6 months is not a long amount of time, if you can change your life for the better. Make sure, its 6 months, and not years. (Some people here in nofap struggle with pmo for years, and you have an alcohol problem aswell. Don't be like them!)
Good luck with your monastery!
See you in 6 months!

About your CV I don't think you should worry. Be more generic, don't highlight exactly when you lost your job and when you got another one. If you can, blame corona, or whatever. Even your parents don't know about your problem, maybe your future wife won't know that you had this problem. Why should your boss do? (Who in fact, won't care)

 

Your short holiday will not be enough time to recover and will get back to old habits when you in regular life

 

I think you should take on board what people are saying here. The common experience with masturbation addiction is it does take months, but this action cannot hurt if you’re struggling to even break a week without the Internet. Go to the monastery, but bear in mind some monasteries are better than others. Sounds like you need one with some serious spiritual elders, the kind that there used to be a lot of