Am I really an addict?

Do people who look at pornography and/or masturbate, even if it’s from time to time, really have a problem or even “a sexual addiction?”

Do I act out when I'm BLAST? (Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stressed or Tired).

Have I tried to stop and can't?

That's the definition of an addiction - you need help to stop! And that's perfectly ok because we all need help at some point.

Lust is when I use a natural urge and impose my own unhealthy emotions on it. Thus I am a 'Lustaholic'.

From the white SA book page 40:

Why in step one do we say we are powerless over lust instead of sex or porn or masturbation? Are we not addicted to porn etc? But our problem isn't just that just as compulsive over-eating the problem is not food. Eating and sex are natural functions; the real problem in these is lust- we create an unnatural appetite that misuses and abuses the natural instinct when use lust/porn etc to reduce isolation, loneliness, fear, tension, or to cover our emotions, make us feel alive, help us escape, or satisfy our God hunger.

Lust is...

Not being able to say no.

Use of erotic media.

Lust creates guilt- unavoidably; and guilt has to be atoned for.

Lust makes part of me want to die because I can't bear what I'm doing to myself and my powerless over it. 

Increasingly, I direct this guilt and self-hatred inward and outward. 

Lust is destructive to me and those around me.

Lust kills the spirit. My spirit is me. Lust kills me!


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