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kedusha and not getting depressed 08 Oct 2024 03:20 #422940

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I am feeling very depressed right now. it is monday evening october 07 2024, it is the middle of aseres yemei teshuvah, more than anything i want to do gods will, and i was doing fine since before rosh hashana, then some kids were bothering me and i got into fight flight mode, then felt sick with myself that i get so disturbed by such things, so distract myself, i looked at some video recordings of frum ladies and was motzi zera livatala. not porn, but just as bad. i want to be kadosh, but can’t make it for more than a few days. please give me chizuk. 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: kedusha and not getting depressed 08 Oct 2024 12:38 #422953

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Oy my dear shimon, my heart goes out for you, I won't pretend to understand the suffering you had and still have as a result of your childhood. I want to let you know that I support you in your journey here. In response to your post, you seem to me to be very kadosh, though maybe not as you had envisioned it. there is tremendous kedushah in every step you take to be better, though it may look different than you had hoped, every time you push back a little bit, there is a spark of kedushah there that cannot be extinguished even if you are motzei zerah afterwards, the spark of kedushah lives on inside you. I implore you to recognize these sparks, and you will see that they quickly make a large bonfire of purity within you. Hashem expects us to try and improve in our ways, and you are doing just that. Take the time everyday to appreciate the accomplishments you have made.
Also remember that no matter what you may have done and how you act, Hashem loves you so much and you are special to Him. He created you and feels that you play an important role in the tikkun of this world, no one can take away the value that Hashem has placed in you, and every time you make progress you are helping to realize that value.
Hatzlachah Rabbah my friend!
"Greatness is forged in battle" - Reb Yerucham Levovitz
My Journey - https://guardyoureyes.com/forum/4-On-the-Way-to-90-Days/399197-On-the-way-Again
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Re: kedusha and not getting depressed 08 Oct 2024 23:25 #422986

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OH MY G-D
Shimon, to say that my heart goes out for you is an understatement. My friend, you've been through hell. Literally. I wish I could hug you and make you feel better. Oy, I cry for you. You are very special that you are where you are. Give yourself a lot of love. Boy, do you deserve it.
Feel free to say hi. My email is 1gimpelovitz@gmail.com
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