Please Help

Ask St. Joseph for strength. He is powerful in heaven, and whatever he asks for, he gets. If he intercedes on your behalf, you'll find new strength within to help you battle this.

Just say:

Hail, spouse of Mary mild
Tender guardian of her Child
Joseph, best of teachers, hail


Every time you're down, say this. It's helped me.

 

yeh dude just chill, have a bite to eat or a cig or something. I've just been in a similar position and i failed and now i feel like shit, but still positive as i know it was just a stupid short term mistake. Hang in there brother...

 

Hi Psychic

I'm also the the UK now at 01.30 and not sleeping so saw your post. I'm guessing when you say OCD you mean pmo and fapping. I think the key thing is to get your mind onto something else and focus on that not on what your primitive brain wants. I don't mean that your brain is primative by the way - it's just that the more ancient parts of the brain have more primative needs that hijack what you as a higher thinking being may want to do.

So here are some emergency suggestions:

- turn that phone off and if possible put it somewhere you can't get at it till morning - out of the window or wherever
- write a list of all the negatives you've experienced about pmo. Then another list of the benefits you hope to get over the next few years by conquering this
- visualise what's going on in your brain - after all it's only chemicals! Imagine the release of dopamine that causes the craving then imagine its reabsorbtion. These little molecules are not you! They cannot decide how you are going to act. They cannot control you. You are in charge. You are reclaiming your own brain. You can and will live the way you want to not according to some primative chemistry designed for 10,000 years ago but unfit for the modern world
- instead of thinking about porn models and scenes, think about these girls and guys as real people. What they do and how they feel after the shoot is over. Their dreams and aspirations. I guess none of them dreamed of this as a career choice. Think about the damage it's done to them and their relationships and self esteem and the fact that as consumers of porn we contribute to that somewhat. Imagine what you would wish for them as human beings then think about what continued use by folk like us condemns them to
- since you mention "a saviour" you could try prayer but I would suggest going to the top rather than any other lesser source of help
- think about how you can write here about your success in the morning after you survived all night and how that might encourage other guys with the same problem

That's it for now. Hope that helps.

P.S. If you are still in trouble get out of bed and do some mindless task that diverts you like catalogue all your books or CDs in alphabetical order or plan a holiday in detail with costings. Anything that gets your mind onto another track. Good luck and give us something to cheer about in the morning!