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Re: A call for help regarding ANGER! 10 Oct 2009 20:35 #22541

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dov wrote on 08 Oct 2009 22:01:

Now, that's all just my experience. Some see their anger or other emotional acting out as an addiction in itself. I don't understand how they do it exactly but, who cares? If you feel that your problem is not sexual acting out or lusting at all, but that it is rage or anger that is making your life unmanageable, then you may find something useful if you look up "Emotions Anonymous", an organization that I believe was started by an early member of SA, named Jesse.
Hatzlocha and all the best to you and yours!!


Thanks, Dov.  I think I've almost got it.

There's just one point now I am confused about.  I thought that this forum IS taking the addictive mind set and applying it to a bad MIDDAH; I thought someone who is addicted to lust, in other words, could also be called
a BAAL TAIVAH.  But you seem to be saying it is something else.  What is it, then?
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Re: A call for help regarding ANGER! 12 Oct 2009 17:23 #22704

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So then addiction means we are misusing something, no matter what it is.  Using lust, or food, or drugs, instead of dealing with life.

Since we're escaping life instead of dealing with life, we end up with bad middos.

But if we'd face life [pitch for the 12 steps?] instead of escaping to our addiction, the bad middos will go away on their own.

(Yes, of course, lots of work is involved)

How's that?
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Re: A call for help regarding ANGER! 28 Dec 2014 06:08 #245913

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Eye.nonymous wrote:
So then addiction means we are misusing something, no matter what it is.  Using lust, or food, or drugs, instead of dealing with life.

Since we're escaping life instead of dealing with life, we end up with bad middos.

But if we'd face life [pitch for the 12 steps?] instead of escaping to our addiction, the bad middos will go away on their own.

(Yes, of course, lots of work is involved)

How's that?


Well and simply put!
the addiction is 'our' solution; not the problem.
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