Rabosai, I need some help/advice in time management. A week has already passed since I started posting in this forum and I can't seem to stop. I, B"H, don't have internet access at home, so all these posts are coming during work hours. I get paid by the hour, but with all my time being spent _{[or maybe it should be called earned?]} reading this forum, I hardly get some work done at all. How do I keep from lookng at GYE???????????? :o

(B4 GYE it was other sites, but there I had a guilty conscious to help me minimize it somewhat.)

:-\ HELP!!!!! I'm addicted to GYE!!!!! HELP!!!! :-\

Yes, the board, the internet, email, Iphones, can all become addictive.  The same way
you create a balance, you do it here.  Set aside a 1/2 hour a day and that's it.  Or whatever.
But spending hours on the computer is not good for you or anyone.  The same addictive chemicals
are activated and it just forces you to want to waste time and eventually fall, C'V.

Elya

Read the thread I started in 'Break Free', you are merely replacing your addictive compulsions with GYE.  The US government saw fit to so the same with morphine addicts. Morphine is costly, and proves addictive to those suffering from extensive pain. So the US Gov. developed HEROIN. A sister drug, to serve as a cheaper subsitute.  But all those former soldiers wounded inbattle went from being addicted to morphine, to being heroin junkies. 

At the end of the day, I DO personaly advise using a sister drug, a kosher one, and even better if it involves harbatzas hatorah!! However it does nothing for the cure (and may have side effects -- no guilt). Read the recent posts from tomim here http://rehab-my-site.com/guardureyes/forum/index.php?topic=1857.0.

Start the 12 steps and apply it to all the various representations of your addiction.

I will try to anwer for you:

"Your addiction to lust, and Your addiction to GYE.....is the same addiction.....sort of."

Didn't Yosef Hatzadik answer Pharoh like this with his dreams?

Someone, (like ourselves) experiencing addictive type behaviors, must not think that it is limited to only one thing...lusting.

Addiction is a symptom of a deeper problem that one is somewhat "out of control". We have difficulty in our lives placing G'vulot on what we do. If we can't maintain our G'vulot, then we will wonder off into a place of lusting.  If we cannot use G'vulot to "keep" us in a good place, then we go "out of control". So,now you are addicted to GYE. Your dreams are all one dream.
  You must, (no matter how difficult it will be), make up a g'vul on how much time you will spend on posting, and do this before you begin. And, if you wish to really help yourself, then it must be Y'harog, V'al Ya'avor.   

  We here have all left our protective fences, and boarders years ago, and now it manifests itself wherever we go. We pashut have lost our restrictions in life.

Fantastic, what you guys are telling me is that I have cut out a large part of my life. Can I just choose to breath for half an hour, twice a day? Just kidding. I understand you all. So from now on, you may have to wait a while to receive my wise replies...

Me, is that really a good idea? Sometimes, even if posting takes up a lot of time, it can help ensure that we don't use the time to do other things...

Make sure that you give yourself enough time posting that you feel connected, have time to post and open up, and relate to others.

I hope to continue hearing your wisdom, Reb Yosef!