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From now until MYK 01 Oct 2024 14:07 #422718

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Hi all,

Just opening this thread to track my progress from now until after YK and for accountability (if it all possible on a anonymous forum..) 
My goal is to abstain from porn, masturbation, chat lines and any internet search with the intent to feed my lust. 
honestly, not sure how this is gonna be of any help, but a friend of mine on the site has been pushing me to do it. I can only try. Yesterday was day one

Re: From now until MYK 01 Oct 2024 14:54 #422722

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ki sorisa wrote on 01 Oct 2024 14:07:
Hi all,

Just opening this thread to track my progress from now until after YK and for accountability (if it all possible on a anonymous forum..) 
My goal is to abstain from porn, masturbation, chat lines and any internet search with the intent to feed my lust. 
honestly, not sure how this is gonna be of any help, but a friend of mine on the site has been pushing me to do it. I can only try. Yesterday was day one

Every step is worth it. You keep on trying. You are an inspiration. The difference between a tzaddik and others is that the tzaddik gets back up and tries again.
"It is not our abilities that show who we truly are, it is our choices.” ---- Albus Dumbeldore (as per Chris Columbus)

Re: From now until MYK 02 Oct 2024 03:10 #422752

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Day 2, although total lack of control with watching my eyes in the streets. Hopefully one day…..

Re: From now until MYK 02 Oct 2024 08:13 #422758

I am past 3 weeks and my streets are a disaster. To quate someone I was talking to about this: He told me that it took him hundreds of clean days from porn and masturbation to gain full control of his eyes. For now lets focus on P & M.

Re: From now until MYK 02 Oct 2024 12:37 #422762

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Shalom Brother Ki Sorisa,

StopSurvivingStartLiving is right. Take it one step at a time and it takes time.

If once in an entire day you can look away, celebrate that. Tomorrow it might be two times. Keeping your mind on the positive will help you feel good about progress and nurture building new habits. 
Also daven. Ask Hashem for help. Perhaps say the tefillah for shemiras einayim in the morning or before heading out.

Hatzlacha and a gut yur
Today is yesterday's tomorrow.
The yetzarim a person has the most trouble dealing with are his most powerful God-given tools for developing his potential and achieving shleimus.
In order to love who you are, you cannot hate the experiences that shaped you.
It doesn't matter how big the number is, only that today it is going up by one.

A little about what I'm doing here: guardyoureyes.com/forum/19-Introduce-Yourself/412971-I-Want-to-Help-Others

Re: From now until MYK 06 Oct 2024 02:53 #422789

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Gut voch, day 6.
Succeeded a couple of times over last few days at not glancing a second time at women in the street. Other than that tbh was smooth sailing. Based on past experience it is around the two to three week mark when the going starts getting rough. Will enjoy the ride for the meantime.   Gemar chasima tova to all of you!

Re: From now until MYK 06 Oct 2024 03:16 #422790

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Keep it up buddy. We’re rooting for you!

Muttel
We're in this struggle together; feel free to reach out! 
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Feel free to call/text! (908) 251-9590 (google)

Check out my thread here: guardyoureyes.com/forum/19-Introduce-Yourself/413043-My-ENTIRE-story#413043

Re: From now until MYK 06 Oct 2024 04:20 #422791

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Keep it up! Take it one day at a time...Just keep saying "Not today, not today", and before you know it you'll be quite far along!
Feel free to reach out!
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Re: From now until MYK 06 Oct 2024 04:32 #422792

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ki sorisa wrote on 06 Oct 2024 02:53:
Gut voch, day 6.
Succeeded a couple of times over last few days at not glancing a second time at women in the street. Other than that tbh was smooth sailing. Based on past experience it is around the two to three week mark when the going starts getting rough. Will enjoy the ride for the meantime.   Gemar chasima tova to all of you!

Brother what an achievement. 
I'm right with you on how hard it is. 

Have you tried reaching out to some people on this site?
Make some friends. 
I have found it to be extremely beneficial. 
I didn't believe I could be clean
Until I actually got clean.
If I can do it, you can too!

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Re: From now until MYK 06 Oct 2024 12:46 #422802

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Gut voch, day 6.

Succeeded a couple of times over last few days at not glancing a second time at women in the street. Other than that tbh was smooth sailing. Based on past experience it is around the two to three week mark when the going starts getting rough. Will enjoy the ride for the meantime.   Gemar chasima tova to all of you!
Brother what an achievement. 

I'm right with you on how hard it is. 



Have you tried reaching out to some people on this site?

Make some friends. 

I have found it to be extremely beneficial. 
Thank you, yes I’ve spoken to quite a few wonderful people from here by now and even met some in person. I thought that perhaps that would help in some way but unfortunately I didn’t find that to be as expected. Don’t get me wrong, they are the most amazing people ( You all know who you are). It’s just that I get to a place where I feel complacent and I feel good about myself again and I forget about everything else and I lose my interest to wanna fight. Reaching out to people has perhaps help me push it off a day or two and perhaps get some things off my chest that are weighing me down but ultimately, I end up isolating myself and go back to bite my own poison. 

Re: From now until MYK 07 Oct 2024 02:27 #422851

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Day 7.
Sunday is normally a very difficult day of no learning, watching kids as wife runs on errands and the whole clan doing errands with all the crankiness and I’m just left feeling very unproductive, blah which in turn leads me down lust lane. Today was different bh although I didn’t get any torah in (and ain’t feeling good abt it) but i stayed very productive with other things which helped me not feel that tremendous dissatisfaction with myself.  Hoping the rest of the week goes well
good night brothers!

Re: From now until MYK 08 Oct 2024 02:52 #422938

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Day 8  
Bh no real urges today 

Re: From now until MYK 08 Oct 2024 03:26 #422941

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one day at a time. hashem sees our struggle and just wants you to do your part. we are not angels.shimon1836@gmail.com
thank you so much for your kind words. i will share my full story later i am just exausted now. but inshort, traumatized as a child,beat up through school years by parents to get me to go to school, and i didnt want to go because all classmates made fun of me and excluded me from all class games, so who would want to go to school. how was it dealt with? principal came to my house in the morning and togehter with father literally dragged me out odf bed and into the car, to school and locked me up in principals office. hell on eartgh. i grew up and was super kadosh in shmiras einayim my whole life. one day i went to a knisiologist, when i was about 22 and she told me that my neshama sex drive is blocked and all my shmiras einayim was just from anxiety. she did some hocus pocus, waved her hands over my eyes and told me that now she cleared the neshama block. i went back to israel and exploded, that was the end of my shmiras einayim. then some doc told me to go to s.a., and unfortunately some shares are too explicit, and i found out where in israel there are open computers. i got terribly involved. but i recovered by focusing on a half hour daily prayer to hashem to help me, and getting busy with good things, listening to shiurim, researching a torah topic, and then feeling good about myself. i am doing much better than i was back then, but i still have not made it for more than a few weeks without being mzl. this is the story in short. i feel bad talking about myself so much, but this is only part of it. i didn't even say everything that happened to me. what i mentioned about school years was not one isolated event. this happened throughout fourth grade mainly, but it is alm olst unheard of that the school principal comes to the house and together with father breaks through locked bedroom door on numerous ocassions. and on a few different occassions my teacher would come with his van with 18kids, and he would drag me into his van and my own classmates would sit on me. on one occasion i jumped out of the principals car at 40 miles an hour on way to school. additionally, i would faint in school, and developed seizures from the anxiety. one time i didn;t go to school, and my mother locked me in my room for a week with a bread and water diet as punishment. my therapist told me, "you were not a trouble making kid, you were a kid in major trouble desperate for hell and your parents and principal etc. didn;t help you." i know this sounds like a fictious horror movie, but i swear in gods name that this happened to me shimon e. we are all going through the struggle together but you gotta admit that this is a little insane what i went through, and thank god in my later years it was just porn use (which is awful but relatively speaking) and not drug use or worse. a few rabbis asked me how i stayed frum religious after all that, and i said that it is my burning desire to be close to god. the work we are doing is not for the faint of heart that is for sure.

Re: From now until MYK 09 Oct 2024 03:17 #423006

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Day 9. 
busy day at work which is good news for the Jews but wife was being quite nagging throughout the day , also extremely tired and had a simcha tonight and feasted with my eyes. In general simchos always leave me with a very longing feeling and quite lusty so feeling like ya… but gonna retire and see what tomorrow brings.
gnite brothers

Re: From now until MYK 09 Oct 2024 04:16 #423008

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i know the feeling. simchos are challenging. BUT HAVE A GREAT NIGHT, GOD LOVES YOU ME AND ALL OF US!!!@!!!!!!! SHIMONED1836@GMAIL.COM
thank you so much for your kind words. i will share my full story later i am just exausted now. but inshort, traumatized as a child,beat up through school years by parents to get me to go to school, and i didnt want to go because all classmates made fun of me and excluded me from all class games, so who would want to go to school. how was it dealt with? principal came to my house in the morning and togehter with father literally dragged me out odf bed and into the car, to school and locked me up in principals office. hell on eartgh. i grew up and was super kadosh in shmiras einayim my whole life. one day i went to a knisiologist, when i was about 22 and she told me that my neshama sex drive is blocked and all my shmiras einayim was just from anxiety. she did some hocus pocus, waved her hands over my eyes and told me that now she cleared the neshama block. i went back to israel and exploded, that was the end of my shmiras einayim. then some doc told me to go to s.a., and unfortunately some shares are too explicit, and i found out where in israel there are open computers. i got terribly involved. but i recovered by focusing on a half hour daily prayer to hashem to help me, and getting busy with good things, listening to shiurim, researching a torah topic, and then feeling good about myself. i am doing much better than i was back then, but i still have not made it for more than a few weeks without being mzl. this is the story in short. i feel bad talking about myself so much, but this is only part of it. i didn't even say everything that happened to me. what i mentioned about school years was not one isolated event. this happened throughout fourth grade mainly, but it is alm olst unheard of that the school principal comes to the house and together with father breaks through locked bedroom door on numerous ocassions. and on a few different occassions my teacher would come with his van with 18kids, and he would drag me into his van and my own classmates would sit on me. on one occasion i jumped out of the principals car at 40 miles an hour on way to school. additionally, i would faint in school, and developed seizures from the anxiety. one time i didn;t go to school, and my mother locked me in my room for a week with a bread and water diet as punishment. my therapist told me, "you were not a trouble making kid, you were a kid in major trouble desperate for hell and your parents and principal etc. didn;t help you." i know this sounds like a fictious horror movie, but i swear in gods name that this happened to me shimon e. we are all going through the struggle together but you gotta admit that this is a little insane what i went through, and thank god in my later years it was just porn use (which is awful but relatively speaking) and not drug use or worse. a few rabbis asked me how i stayed frum religious after all that, and i said that it is my burning desire to be close to god. the work we are doing is not for the faint of heart that is for sure.
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