What to do?

stop browsing, cut your internet out of your day, strengthen your resolve and start over, i relapsed yesterday and im ready for round 2. You get to a certain point i realized, when i was extremely tempted i had two choices, give up which i did, or push onward and become stronger, i wasnt dedicated to hit that breakthrough and i gave up, when you start your journey you have to be 100% sure you are done, a sliver of hesitation will make you fail, i chose to fail yesterday because i didnt want to keep going, i desired to strongly to stay where the comfort was, the path to freedom is a hard one, not many reach the end, and to do that you must throw away what your flesh and mind wants, and follow your heart instead. Give up control and trust your instincts, only than will you succeed, good luck.

 

You absolutely have to completely eliminate (to all realistic lengths) any and ALL areas of risk and temptation.


These are the tools I recommend to people fighting this battle:




- Go to weekly SA meetings and find a sponsor there. To find one near you, go to https://www.sa.org/meetings/

- Do an internet search for CSAT office in your area (Certified Sexual Addiction Therapist)

- Find an accountability partner if you don't already have one.

- Look for help online; There are sexual addiction recovery books, workbooks, self-help books, Youtube videos and MANY other things to help.

- Start a journal about your recovery.

- Put safeguards in place to help you stay sober. Think of your weaknesses and eliminate them.

- Do you take your phone (or any other device) into the bathroom with you and relapse because of it? Then make a rule to never take any electronic device into the bathroom with you, ever. NO EXCEPTIONS.

- Do you read erotic literature and relapse because of it? Make a rule to never read anything that could ever be found in that section of any bookstore ever.

- If you struggle with looking at internet porn or any other addictive material on the internet, get an internet filter to block that category type of website as well as any specific site you know you’re vulnerable to and give someone else the password to it. Obviously, you should not have the password.