2. Accepting that we need help
Here's my abridged version.
We need to accept that we have a problem and that we
need help.
YOU WILL ONLY BE SAVED IF YOU ADMIT YOU ARE AN ADDICT!
I know it hurts. It hurt and it hurts me too. Yes, I am an addict. Yes me, the father, husband,
Talmid Chacham and neighborhood Askan, is an addict.
It still hurts me to write you these words. But we must admit it in order to be helped.
If you want to
keep on riding on the Teshuvah/Nefilla roller-coaster, be my guest. But you will just continue
making more addictive behavior neuron pathways in your brain, which only get harder to reverse.
Some people are willing to “say” they have an addiction, but coming to terms with what
that really means, and acting like they really are ill and need help, is another matter.
we are ready to accept our problem and begin to live in the solution, by exploring the methods
that really work.
It will almost never help to simply try “harder” to fight the Yetzer Hara, to learn
more mussar, or make ever more resolutions.
With addictions, there are methods that don’t work,
and then there are tried-and-proven methods that do work. The steps that work are outlined in
the GuardYourEyes Handbook. There we will learn that it is possible to break free, no matter how
far the addiction has advanced.
