Health overhaul, aging population push Health and Human Services budget …
Those include an assortment of reductions affecting service providers, from hospitals to rehab centers to drug companies. Obama also called for stepped-up use of competitive bidding to procure medical equipment. And his budget voiced support for a … Read more on Minneapolis Star Tribune

One Third of Skilled Nursing Patients Harmed in Treatment
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Bearing the scars of 'devil's drug'
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Health Briefs for March 5, 2014
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Pregnancy Care Center holding fundraiser banquet
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Monthly's guide to alternative medicine
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Worcester Reports 37 Suspected Drug Overdose Deaths in 2014—What is …
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Fitch Upgrades Host Hotels & Resorts' IDR to Investment Grade; Outlook Stable
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Question by Mr Psychology: Can you help me, a Christian and a (supposedly) “recovering” sexual (pornography) addict?
I’m 20 years old and male.
I used to watch pornography and pleasure myself about once a day, for roughly 7 years.
I’m also a Christian, so you can imagine just how much of a struggle this has been for a third of my life. I’m an intellectual, I’m not stupid and I don’t try to kid myself. I don’t sugar-coat things and I know what I am doing is wrong.
Last summer I started a journal and recorded my process of fighting this addiction to pornography and (hopefully) overcoming it. I finally did… or so I thought.
Recently (5-6 months later), I’m finding it harder and harder to control the urges that, just a few months ago, I could cast aside with ease. I’ve ruined my streak of 5 months without pornography, and am seeing myself beginning to pleasure myself once again more frequently.
I read passages in the bible, such as “Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love Him.” James 1:12, and it breaks my heart (as I know it breaks God’s).
My feelings constantly turn from shame to frustration and back again.

Please help me, I don’t know where to begin. I’ve overcome this before, but it feels even harder this time. It hurts more than it did before because before I was starting off at the ultimate low (for myself), so anything was an improvement. Now, however, I feel as though I’m going from Great to terrible.

Please, any (constructive/positive/truthful/concrete) advise is greatly welcomed, especially from a Christian perspective (I find that non-Christians, nothing against them, do not quite understand the reason behind or the severity of my feelings).

Thank you.

Best answer:

Answer by 888
Come to know Christ first.

What do you think? Answer below!

Heroin addicts who want help face insurance denials
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KAREN HERRAND, Cotuit: Drug addicts, their families need more help to recover
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Recovery project to start helping addicts in March
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Poll: What is the best way to help drug addicts recover?
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Health reform law drove Hazelden-Betty Ford merger
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Father of late addict seeks to debunk perceptions
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The Great Hidden Secret: How 'The Anonymous People' is Changing Recovery …
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Can Recovery Apps Ever Replace Face-To-Face Addiction Treatment?
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Past struggles lead to present hopes for others seeking sobriety
Through it, he uses his harrowing story as recovery hope for others battling drug and alcohol addiction. The couple has “planted” two local support groups within their home church, Riverside Community Church, which recently relocated from Regal Cinemas … Read more on The Intelligencer

SALINE: First meeting of addiction task force set for Feb. 24
The Saline Community Addiction Task Force will be made up of nine people with Police Chief Larry Hrinik serving as a co-chair along with Smita Nagpal, Ph.D., who is co-owner and programs director at Still Waters Counseling, a local holistic treatment … Read more on Heritage Newspapers

Question by Lady Morgana: How many “alcoholics” out there have tried Rational Recovery instead of AA?
How effective would you say etiher of these programs is for you?

I was in AA for 3 years and have now gone on to RR. It works for me, getting rid of the religious stuff and putting in personal responsibility and personal power. I am interested in other people’s experiences.
actually, guyster, I have only asked it once BEFPRE, and I am re-posting it TODAY in this place and one other in order to get more responses, since there were only 4 or 5 answers form the one and only previous time I posted it, but gee thanks for keeping track of what questions I post. What a guy.

Best answer:

Answer by guyster
Probably just as many as the last three times you asked this.

Add your own answer in the comments!

Martin County Support Groups, updated Feb. 19
Alcoholics Anonymous: For meetings on the Treasure Coast call 772-562-1114 or visit www.indianriveraa.org. Nar-Anon family groups: a fellowship for those … of eating disorders. 11 a.m.-noon Saturdays. Parkway Rehab Center, 800 Central Parkway, Stuart. Read more on TCPalm

Editor column: Addiction is a disease — part two
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Daily Planner: February 20
Chico Toastmasters: 7 p.m. Enloe Rehab Center conference room, 340 W. East Ave. Larry, 893-4464. Weekly. Health, emotional support. Alcoholics Anonymous: Chico Central — 6:30 a.m., 8 a.m., noon, 3:30 p.m., 5:30 p.m., 7 p.m. 1102 Mangrove Ave., Chico … Read more on Enterprise-Record

Places to go; Things to do
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