Addiction Is...
Whether your drinking, smoking or struggle with watching adult films addiction is all the same. The symptoms can be categorized as the same for different addiction types.
So what is addiction?
To simply put it, addiction is a stress response from a particular stimulus (person, place or thing).
How do you navigate out of it?
You dissociate yourself from those stimuli (person, place or thing), and replace it with new healthier behaviors.
Example: If you find yourself smoking, drinking or watching adult films when your emotions are affecting you remove yourself from that stimuli (person, place or thing) and replace it with a healthier behavior.
You can jog in place for 10 seconds or find some sort of exercise that you can manage to do for a short period.
What you're doing is forming a new behavior and getting healthier in the process.
This is what is known as neuroplasticity.
And yes, it does take time, but careful planning coupled with paying attention to how your body responds to certain people, places or thing can definitely lead you towards success.
~God Bless
@amicableox0685
Appreciate the thoughtfulness behind making this post, and the tips shared!💛
Thank you. I am suffering with masturbation addiction and even if I avoid everything I will reach the point where everything becomes a trigger to that.
I hope I can work that beast out with your communities and maybe professional help, because God healed my from a depressive state, but not from that struggle.
@ambitiousHickory9113 i understand you and i know we can get through this. i wish you all the best.Â
@ambitiousHickory9113
Healing isn't linear but I believe the same as you. I think in due time if we continue to do what we can we inherit those blessings because you reap what you sow.
Hosea 10:12**:
  *"Sow righteousness for yourselves, reap the fruit of unfailing love, and break up your unplowed ground; for it is time to seek the Lord, until he comes and showers his righteousness on you."*