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Re: My journy 30 Oct 2012 13:57 #146916

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Great, as Reb Dov says


Day one is the best day ever to be sober. Same every day.

Hatzlocha!!


Please tell us when you get to day 2 and open up a little. The more you open up you will help build your confidence to stay clean.
You will soon find yourself be reaching day 7, 10 ......... there's no limit.

Hatzlocha

Re: My journy 30 Oct 2012 18:43 #146934

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Today is day two.
My Rabbi always gives me the same advice. "Be happy. The world is good. Just be happy."

Re: My journy 31 Oct 2012 00:13 #146966

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Woo Hoo! Keep on Monster Trucking

Re: My journy 31 Oct 2012 08:08 #146972

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very good keep going

Re: My journy 31 Oct 2012 18:41 #147004

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Today is day three. This is usually where I fall.
My Rabbi always gives me the same advice. "Be happy. The world is good. Just be happy."

Re: My journy 31 Oct 2012 18:46 #147005

Suggested correction: "This is where I used to fall."

See Berachos 4b: נפלה לא תוסיף

Pretend it's day 1 and give it all you got, and ditto for tomorrow etc.

בכל יום יהיו בעיניך כחדשים

Hatzlacha

MT

Re: My journy 01 Nov 2012 10:13 #147034

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We are all dovening for you. Just stay clean today!

Re: My journy 01 Nov 2012 21:42 #147086

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Why would you fall?
"Off the 18-wheeler and fine on this tricycle!", "I do not particularly care exactly which "lav" suicide is. I'm not interested in it for other reasons...and you are probably the same."

Re: My journy 01 Nov 2012 22:03 #147094

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I fell yesterday and today.
My Rabbi always gives me the same advice. "Be happy. The world is good. Just be happy."

Re: My journy 01 Nov 2012 22:13 #147100

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Why would you fall?

Can you just answer the question simply and honestly? We have all fallen. But why would you fall at all is what I am asking. Let's start a discussion that might get you somewhere and help us all. Just keep is simple, no whining and self-beating. You are not a hunk of garbage. You are a person. Now:

Why do you do these things? Do you have any real idea?
"Off the 18-wheeler and fine on this tricycle!", "I do not particularly care exactly which "lav" suicide is. I'm not interested in it for other reasons...and you are probably the same."

Re: My journy 04 Nov 2012 03:38 #147156

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I do them as a distraction from my depression. When I was younger I was really depressed. When I turned 12 and started masturbating, things became bearable. When I learned masturbation is a sin, I tried to stop. When I tried to stop, I became depressed. When I get depressed, I do what used to work. Now that I know that masturbating is a sin, I get more depressed. That is a brief history of my struggle and current problem. This lead me to believe that I first started to, and currently do, fall in order to releive stress and as a break from my depression.
My Rabbi always gives me the same advice. "Be happy. The world is good. Just be happy."

Re: My journy 04 Nov 2012 04:16 #147162

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It is pretty clear to me that if you really want to stop - which I would never assume for them that anyone really does for that's up to you, not Hashem, His Torah, or whoever...only ourselves - you need to drop this entire right or wrong business off your shoulders. It's not about the yetzer hora - that's clear. So now you can't blame it on G-d (for He gave you the yetzer hora as a test for Torah ideals, right? So blaming it on my YH is just blaming it directly on G-d). Phew, one down.

The entire issue of sin here - issur or heter - sperm being little imaginary babies, neshomos, homunculi...or tum'ah spreading throughout all your eivarim (Yesod is kolel all the eivarim) as a result of wasting the sperm...this makes your problem worse. Irrelevant if it's true it is just poison for you. It does makes you need to do it more. So it is plain that if there is an issur for you, it is approaching this problem as an aveirah. So phew, two down.

Now what's left is for you to see if this is hurting you in any practical way.

Is it?

Iyov was a great man. He held his faith in G-d at a level we could never have stood on, R"l! But his greatness was marred when he finally cracked. He lost his farm, house, business, and children in a brutal manner - but held the line on acceptance of G-d as truly just and good. What made him lose it? The soton asked to affect Iyov's own body, for a change, and Hashem let him....then Iyov cracked.

AA calls it "enlightened self-interest" - the thing that finally gets the stinking drunk to say in himself what people have been begging him to do for years: "Oh...this is bad for me. I'd better give this up completely right now." The fact that what we do is 'bad' for G-d, for Klal Yisroel, for our Olam haboh, stops the Moshiach, or creates troubles for us in the future...all that is imaginary to us. Our problem needs to start to affect us in ourselves. Enlightened self-interest is what gets us to finally make the grade.

So, how is your habit affecting you today?
"Off the 18-wheeler and fine on this tricycle!", "I do not particularly care exactly which "lav" suicide is. I'm not interested in it for other reasons...and you are probably the same."

Re: My journy 05 Nov 2012 21:08 #147279

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some_guy,

I just want to say what an inspiration you are. I B"H have been more successful this time in stopping that I have at any other time in the past 20 years. May it be His will that I continue. In the past, after 1,2 or 3 failures I would just completely give up and not think about stopping again for months, even years.

The way you pick yourself up every time you fall, get back on this forum and again say "today is day one" is a testament to your strength and determination. I hope that if I chas v'shalom have a fall again I am able to pick myself up like you do.

One other thing.
dov wrote on 04 Nov 2012 04:16:

It is pretty clear to me that if you really want to stop - which I would never assume for them that anyone really does for that's up to you, not Hashem, His Torah, or whoever...only ourselves ...


I learned a few years ago that whenever I used to go on a diet if I was just playing lip service to the diet, I wouldn't last a week. If I really got it in my head that I was ready to commit, I would last a few months and drop 30 pounds. Nothing anyone said or did could make me commit in my head, only I could do it. I think I finally applied this lesson to my lust addiction, I pray you can do the same.

MBJ
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Only when we make our real lives sweeter than our fantasies will we reap the emotional rewards, the happiness of recovery. - AlexEliezer
Focus on making the right choices as they come up. - Skeptical
When I start to literally accept G-d's Will as guiding my life today, things start to change. - Dov

Re: My journy 08 Nov 2012 19:50 #147478

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Today is day 2. MBJ, you have no idea what it means to me to hear that someone was inspirted by what I am doing. Thank you
My Rabbi always gives me the same advice. "Be happy. The world is good. Just be happy."

Re: My journy 08 Nov 2012 20:33 #147481

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some_guy wrote on 08 Nov 2012 19:50:

Today is day 2. MBJ, you have no idea what it means to me to hear that someone was inspirted by what I am doing. Thank you


Just don't give up
have a good Shabbos
My Story
Only when we make our real lives sweeter than our fantasies will we reap the emotional rewards, the happiness of recovery. - AlexEliezer
Focus on making the right choices as they come up. - Skeptical
When I start to literally accept G-d's Will as guiding my life today, things start to change. - Dov
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