Attn: Current or Former Porn Addicts . .

[johnq]

Can you do me a favor?

I feel a little silly asking you this. You see I am starting to work with idividuals on overcoming pornography addiction. And I need your help.

Here is the dilema.

You must know the pain felt by those you are helping. You must be able to walk in their shoes. Yes, I have some good ideas, but you can’t get this wrong. Do you know what I mean?

This where you can help.

**Post Your 5 Biggest Headaches - Pains - **
**Problems - Issues - Etc… You Have or Had **
With OverComing Pornography Addiction…

If you are too shy to respond then take the time now to add an “annonymous user” and post with that name.

Do so now or else you will forget to so later. You would hate to lose this thread and forfeit the chance to help others in similar circumstances. Is that fair enough?

Thanks for the help.

Hit the “Post Reply” below.

 

[homewardbound]

I’m a female, and had a problem with porn in high school
problems I had:

1. Admitting I had a problem
2. Learning to stop making excuses to go look at/read it
3. Feeling worthy of asking God for help
4. Learning to control my urges to masturbate(anytime I get that urge now I start praying an Our Father or Hail Mary and it goes away)
5. Forgiving myself

 

[Kevin42]

I’m 18, and I am just overcoming this addiction. My problems were very similar to the poster above me.

1. Feeling worthy enough to ask the Lord to forgive me. I did not want to go to Confession until I could say that I had not looked at porn for two weeks.
2. Failing to recognize that I by myself was unable to overcome this. It took me a while to recognize that without the Lord’s help, I was never going to beat it.
3. Feeling hopeless. (Ex: I am so far gone, what’s the point of trying anymore?)
4. The nature of the pornography made it even more embarrassing for me to consider thinking about it, much less confessing it.
5. Learning that in order to prevent being tempted, I also needed to stop going to other sites, or watching certain TV shows that led me to temptation.

Also, it has taken me 3 years to get where I am now. Be patient with these people. You can want to change incredibly bad, but the urges become so powerful sometimes that you find it impossible to think about anything else.

Good look, and peace be with you!

 

[johnq]

Thanks for the help so far.

Anyone else with some headaches they would like to share? ? ?

You can also PM me.

 

[litllulu]

Before I started taking my faith seriously, my ex-boyfriend and I would rutinely watch pornography before and during sex. Most of it was just HBO skinemax stuff, but it was sinful regardless. I wonder if I will have arousal problems with my future husband because of it. It is very demoralizing, think of how stupid you feel afterwards. That gets me everytime.