Friends,
We are told and we tell others that there is no cure to addiction, what does this mean?
Hashem can do anything.  Have we destroyed the path to a cure?  Were we made lacking in some way?  What is it about addiction that makes all hope of a cure impossible?
Thanks for your thoughts.
Hatzlacha in all things GOOD.
chaimyakov

Part of the cure is that we should KNOW that there is no cure and that we have to work on it every day and that is a cure. You get my point? I know people who are away from this stuff for years. But, we must know that there is no way we can say ok I am cured and I can relax it's all good now, that is what we must remember there is no cure, meaning we always have to do the steps and work on it.

I had this argument with someone last week. He told me that its stupid to say there is no cure to an addiction because it takes away a persons hope of getting better. I agree in part however I feel the main point of having this viewpoint of an addiction is that we always stay alert. I have ways to go in my addiction and I know that the only way I will be able to overcome this curse is by guarding my eyes as per the site, and setting up certain boundaries that i cannot cross. If I view myself as ana addict then I wont say "its not a problem for me to watch this or that because I am strong enough to beat it". Because the addict (in this case myself) will know they cannot overcome the taiyvo if they set themselves up for this. The addict who treats himself like an addict in essence has more strentgh and power over his addiction then anybody out there who DOESN'T HAVE AN ADDICTION. The reaosn is because at the end of the day, if they are put into a scenario where they prosepctively may fall, THEY MAY FALL. However an addict would never be in that situation because he wouldn't let his guard down and such a scenario would not encumber itself upon him. That is the way I understand it. I wish I could apply this better yet sometimes I just get lazy. I dont want anybody to think that I am such a strong person. I know that deep down inside I want it, its just a matter of applying it. I honestly am going to try as hard as ever right now to apply the words that I have just stated in this post and bieszras hashem oset up enough protections to prevent falling again, I wish you all hatzlacha in this regard as well.