Dear Kal Kanesher,
I am the admin of this forum. It is my greatest honor to welcome yet another holy yid to this community.
THE EAGLE HAS LANDED! Once you've arrived here, there's no turning back. Everyone here will just grab a hold of you and pull you up, up, up!
I sense a great soul in you, hurting... You will yet learn how to be free, kal kanesher. I gave you an Avatar on the forum already, as a sign of our love for you!!
We get cries for help exactly like yours every day, by e-mail and on the forum.
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And that is why we created the GYE handbooks (links below). If you read them well, from beginning to end, slowly, and try to implement what you read, you will find the answers within them to enable you to completely turn your life around.
You're worth it. Also, please join the
daily Chizuk e-mail lists to get fresh chizuk every day, and make sure to post away on this forum. You will get tons of daily Chizuk and support. This disease can't be beat alone. It works best when you get out of isolation! We have such holy Tzadikim just like you on this forum. Very soon, you will start to see the light at the end of the tunnel. You won't believe me when I tell you this, but one day you will BLESS Hashem for your addiction, because through it - and through recovery - you will learn how to TRULY give Hashem your heart.
You are very right. What we don't take care of is often passed on to our children to take care of. When you fix this, not only will you be saving your children from these tests be"h, you will also be bringing a great tikkun to the souls of your parents.
I also highly suggest joining one of our anonymous 12-Step phone conferences. See
this page for various options throughout the week. The 12-Steps teach us how to let go and let Hashem take away the addiction from us. We have learned the hard way, that will-power alone is not sufficient in dealing with an addiction.
Now let me tell you a little about the two GuardYourEyes handbooks. They lay down the cornerstone and foundation of our work, and they make our network much more effective and helpful for people.
You see, until now, people would often get "lost" when coming to our website, not knowing what tips and techniques to try. For example, a beginner wouldn't jump straight into therapy or 12-Step groups, while on the other hand, someone whose addiction was more advanced wouldn't be helped by the standard tips of "making fences" putting in "filters" etc... So it was essential to develop a handbook which details all the techniques and tools to dealing with this addiction in progressive order. Now with these handbooks, anyone can read through and see what steps they've tried already, and if those steps haven't worked, they can continue on through the handbook where the steps become progressively more powerful and "addiction-oriented".
And the second handbook, called the "Attitude" handbook, can also help anyone, no matter what level of addiction they may have. Often people write in to us saying that had they only known the proper outlook & attitude that we try and share on the GuardYourEyes network when they were younger, they would have never fallen into an addiction in the first place! So we hope that through this handbook, many addictions will be prevented.
The handbooks are PDF files, set up as eBooks, and they have bookmarks and hyper-links in the Index, to make them easy to navigate.
Make sure to read them, they contain a wealth of information on beating this addiction! And I'd love to hear your feedback on them...
Note: You might want to print them out to read away from the computer. Keep in mind though, that if you do this, you won't be able to click on the many web links in the articles. But you can always come back to them later. The truth is, it's anyway good to go through the whole handbook once without clicking on links, just to get an overview of all the tools available. Once you did that, you can start again from tool #1 and read each tool through more carefully, click the links and study each technique and assess whether you have tried it fully yet or not... Right click on the links below and select "Save Link/Target As" to download the handbooks to your computer. 1) The GuardYourEyes Handbook This Handbook details 18 suggested tools and techniques, in progressive order, beginning with the most basic and fundamental approaches to dealing with this addiction, and continuing down through increasingly earnest and powerful methods. For the first time, we can gauge our level of addiction and find the appropriate tools for our particular situation. And no matter what level our addiction may have advanced to, we will be able to find the right tools to break free in this handbook! 2) The GuardYourEyes Attitude The Attitude Handbook details 30 basic principles to help us maintain the proper attitude and perspective on this struggle. Here are some examples: Understanding what we are up against, what it is that Hashem wants from us, how we can use this struggle for tremendous growth, how we can deal with bad thoughts, discovering how to redirect the power of our souls, understanding that every little bit counts, learning how to bounce back up after a fall, and so on and so forth... May Hashem be with you!