Yes, definitely replying in a general way to the thread, but hoping to share, again, generally, my early experience in Recovery, namely, committing to the 12 steps, which are totally kosher (as GYE can explain), will give you enormous comfort and relief.
I know very much this realization that I had some "new fight" in me before certain temptations. I had that same experience, where I acted out, but I had fought, I had almost cried through it, and I thought it must be progress...
Well, it's not a straight line. But for me, and for many addicts, I think, it has to be about GIVING UP THE FIGHT. I had a more powerful experience over the summer, where I sensed Hashem was in the room with me. It was a simple thing, but suddenly the abstraction was not an abstraction. I felt a presence, in a different way than I had ever in my life. And with that presence I felt love, and, the desire that I not hurt myself. And so I stopped in my tracks. I did not do it. Not because I was fighting with chizuk from Hashem! Because I could sense that Hashem was present in my life, I was "living inside G-d" as Dov says in one of his recorded calls posted here on GYE...