How to deal with addictions?

>>18543694
A trained therapist. A support group. Ask your family or friends to hold you accountable to abstain from using. It's hardest to beat addiction if you keep it to yourself.

>>18543694
Depending on the physical effects of withdrawl, you can get over the mental effects by locking yourself in with a friend for a few weeks to have him keep your mind off of it and keep you honest until it passes, though I dunno where you'd find that kind of friend if you don't have one

Started going to CBT last week. I can't say if it will help or not but I've made a point to cut back anyway. I'm still kinda paranoid my therapist will think I'm a stupid piece of shit. Why do people take these jobs... ?

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>>18543694
Depends on the addiction. I've been clean from heroin and alcohol for 6 years from AA. Each person is different but that's what's worked for me.

>>18543889
>I'm still kinda paranoid my therapist will think I'm a stupid piece of shit
Tongue in cheek, but they're specifically trained to deal with stupid pieces of shit so don't worry about that. You will be less of a stupid piece of shit as you progress.

>>18543889
Taking the steps to curb your addiction makes you way less of a stupid piece of shit than most other addicts he may deal with

>>18543827
I beat my porn addiction in just a year. It's hard but you learn a lot yourself when you try to do it yourself. You learn and try a lot of ways to beat it while a therapist suggests one or a hand ful of them. Therapists can be useful but only go to therapists if you are just too far in. In my case, I even watched porn during my lecture and my professor caught it in front of everyone. My mom caught me masturbating. Dad asked my phone to make a call and he accidentally clicked the gallery to find my stash of porn in it. I had a bad name last year but now I completely am over it. I don't masturbate at all now. I completely stopped porn. All these triggers over social media ain't doing nothing on me. I just scroll past or don't care if a bikini pic is near to a content I'm reading. I'm not against your statement at all but consider this as a add-on to your statement.

>>18543694
find a new addiction.
till its not that toxic.
>mine got monster energy