hi everyone. i started with this problem when i was a young boy, i don tknow the age, but at that point i didnt even know what masturbation was! i thought i had some sort of interesting disease but for some reason i was to shy to tell my parents about it. so it carried on. sometimes i was doing it up to twice a day and sometimes i managed to stop for 2-4 months. slowly i found out what it was and at about 13 i found out that it was an aveira. but i couldnt stop. i fell into porn for a few years until my mother caught me and i basically never did that again. but masturbation continued and although over the past few years ive managed to controll it better, i kept falling because i persauded myself that im not going about the right way of stopping. i got to an age where marraige was on the horizon and i decided that i absolutly want to stop before i get married, i just didnt know how. so i davened and davened for Hashem to show me a way and one day someone brought into yeshiva one of rabbi twerskys books and he writes there about gye and that is where i am today, 9 days in! my question is that now that i know that fighting one day at a time is the way forward should i just try that to begin with or should i be doing other things as well? thanks for reading!

yankelshmira wrote on 15 Aug 2017 23:03:

Welcome brother

I believe One Day at a Time does NOT mean 24hr White Knuckling / fighting

You are on the right track here brother
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