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by tommy
Last post
 March 29th
...See more Welcome to the NEW Addiction Support Taglist This thread is an auto-updating list. The list is regularly updated by forum leaders and can be found below. Having issues? Reply below and someone will help you! Why should I join the taglist? ✔ Never miss out on sub-community check-ins, discussions or events ✔ Get tagged and notified by community leaders whenever a new relevant thread has been posted ✔ Become a more active member of the community. What do I need to do? ✅ To add yourself to this taglist, press the Post to Thread button below and write the exact words Please add me. ❌ To remove yourself from this taglist, press the Post to Thread button below and write the exact words Please remove me. ------------------------- Current taglist as of 1st July (updated by @tommy)
3 weeks.
by whydoesausernamematter
Last post
 2 hours ago
...See more Excuse me if any of this seems like a typo using talk to text because I’m at work, but I just wanted to come on here and say that I am three weeks clean. If you haven’t seen the previous thread, I broke my nose while training and accidentally took an opioid, breaking my sobriety anyway I also came on here to talk about how last weekend my cousin passed away and it’s been kind of hard. I can’t say that he and I were close, but I remember seeing him run around as a little kid. He was younger than I am and last night I went to his viewing. He’s my cousin on my father side side of the family, and my father side of the family is very prideful and and just all around bad people. I might sidetrack a little bit and this thread might get a little confusing but if you’re still reading if you read any of this, I appreciate the time that you took. The last time I saw my cousin was about a year and a half ago my truck simply stopped working on me and he helped me tow it back to my apartment. He was very happy to do so despite the fact that he and I had not spoken in years at that point and you couldn’t even really say we grew up around each other. What hunts me is this one picture that they showed at the viewing of one of his birthday parties she sitting in the middle of the table in front of the birthday cake and my younger brother is standing right next to him and they’re the same height. My younger brother had to be maybe eight to 10 years old and I’m standing in the picture far off to the right next to my father and I’m just as tall as my father, but the last time I saw my cousin was about the same height as me most of the pictures they showed at the viewing were graduation photos. It was a very beautiful service going back to what I said about my father side of the family , there were a few people there that I immediately knew were not gonna want to speak to me and a few that I am surprised even looked in my direction. I’m happy that I got to reconnect with some family. Hopefully, they actually start to look for me every now and then. the bodyaches are gone , the craving of course is still there, but I’m just very happy that my girlfriend was there with me through it all. I don’t know how well I could’ve composed myself had she not been there. I guess I’m happy to hit three weeks sober again. I regret not being closer to my cousin. He seemed like the type of person that I would want to be friends with. Anyway, I kind of lost where I was going with this, but I appreciate you reading it if you read it, I just needed to get this out. Thank you.
Addiction
by compassionateCar7091
Last post
 3 hours ago
...See more I really wanted a drink yesterday my kids were a lot but I knew a drink wouldn't solve anything. So today I surpassed my urge and I'm not needing that drink
Sex Addiction Accountabili-buddy
by DragonsRKool
Last post
 8 hours ago
...See more M21 Looking for someone else (adult) to talk to while I'm trying to recover. Deep in my hypersexuality for pretty much my whole life. I want to try and control it for my partner. I hope if you're going through it I can lift you up too but I was just hoping we could keep eachother accountable.
Sex, Drugs, Alcohol, & Porn
by sl4pj4ck
Last post
 10 hours ago
...See more For as long as I can remember I've been *** up to 7 times a day. I was with my gf for 11 years before she caught me messaging other men and performing sex acts for them online. I drink 5 days a week. Smoke 7+ grams of weed a day. Watch porn leisurely even when I'm not ***. My social media activity is purely for perverted activity. Sometimes I *** so many times a day I'm unable to perform correctly for my gf at night. It's beginning to affect my daily life as I'm no longer able to do the things I enjoy. I only spend my free time scouring the web for other perverted men to perform for or with. Sometimes in ways I'm not proud of. I party all of the time and love to stay up all night with friends partying and dancing the night away. I am unable to focus these days and im beginning to do things online that makes me afraid of what I'll be doing just to climax in the future
Sexual porn and mastrubation addiction help
by honestTurtle581
Last post
 15 hours ago
...See more Sexually abused done Daily bullied from 1-10th by students betten up by stones done  Striped naked bully done  Fmily hating done Thrown to out for not to attend sisters marriage done  Loss of frds done Manipulated by toxic girlfriend done Toxic relationship done Ignored by other done Getting betrayeals from a girlfriend done She was not leaving until I make a mistake and she blames on me and make a break up done  She used me done  Too much toxic ex girlfriend extended to one year of torcher done Relations siblings hate done Oh yeah addicted done I get go porn and ***  One or two times a day from 7months  I am addicted to trying to move on This is to much Publicallly scolded by father done Sexual abused by frds to me this has became a joke to me now Ah yes family torchers for to get more marks done I tried to k*ll myself for this with a knife At childhood They used to put a disturbance sounds  Which destroyed my mind done Sisters manipulation to mom to hate me done  I mean what is left?😂. This is just a brief Just help me get rid of porn and mastrubation addiction  Later I'll find to go out somewhere and never return to family to get hurt more  I am done being punching bag.
Porn Addiction
by livebroccoli
Last post
 1 day ago
...See more Hi. I don't know which words I should/shouldn't use or is it the normal usage to type this here but here we go. I'm not native so sorry for future miskates. I'm a male/23 and I have porn addiction since covid-19 began. I'm remembering I was watching porn way before than covid but I was busy, not alone and there was no time to *** or looking for porn in my life. So it wasn't effecting my social behavior, energy or any other thing that it can effect on me. Now I'm in university and I'm struggling to connect with someone and having less energy and motivation to do the things I gotta do. I couldn't sleep very well and I couldn't find a good reason to get up from the bed. My mom once told me that "if you don't have any purpose you can't get up from bed" Sometimes I wake up and rolling on the bed to side to side and trying to sleep again. But 2 days ago I was so mad at my self, it felt like I just had enough. I felt a deep pain inside and it was like physically hurting. This is a nsfw part, so please do not read if you have any history of self hatred/ self punishment: NSFW************************************************************************* I was so mad at me I wanted punish myself for things I couldn't do or achive. I accomplished that with walking to home in cold weather. I walked 4 km uphill in 17 degrees (C°) while wearing only a t-shirt and short. At some point on the road I was literally pushing myself to do finishing it. But I couldn't my legs were shaking. I don't blame myself or I don't want to put too much meaning into this but I really managed to walk and see the city from high. I took that as a win. END*************************************************************************** I arrived at home and urges caught me up and I couldn't control myself. I masturbated with porn but it felt so much different than usual. It was like... When I was a kid I hated vegetable foods and mom was forcing me to try it and decide after that. And I felt disgust. I felt same after watching porn. I asked myself "why can't you stop porn?" "you literally climbed a mountain" I woke up and it was enough. I started to surfing on the internet how I can connect with others like me and watched some porn addiction videos on YouTube. (Btw seeing people with same issues that I have in my life really made me feel relaxed and comfortable. Thanks for Dr. K and brothers in this video: Helping viewers with porn addiction btw there is a part 2 of this video where they relapse) I sat my chair and watched all video I was all alone and my roomie was gone for school and I didn't do it. It was like 3.5 hours when he comes back but felt like years. I just didn't. And I was so proud of myself with that 3.5 hours. But my brain was like scratching, it was like pushing me. Urge was physical but resistance was mentally. I just slept with my door open and not trying to close. Because whenever I kept close I do the same thing. I tried to sleep, it was hard(rolling on bed) but I managed to fell asleep. I woke up, this is day 2 of trying to quit porn and not over sexualize things that I think about. Trying to control my emotions and not overreacting to the things that I normally wouldn't. These 2 days is hard maybe because of the dopamine resistance but I will keep going. I just wanted to daily check in. Thank you for reading. PS: I didn't talk to my family about this because I feel shame and I didn't try to get a professional help. I don't know, it feels so bad being a 23 year old man and struggling with this. I didn't know how they would react. I really appreciate if anyone explains how they told their family about their problem.
Smoking
by RodiSki
Last post
 2 days ago
...See more Im trying to quit smoking these days i stopped at my last BD (12/05) my problem is i dont find my pleasure in smoking cuz of nicotine actually i love burning things and the smoke itself so it kinda hard wish me luck
Sex controls my life!
by patientBeach3082
Last post
 Sunday
...See more I’m new on here and this is actually my very first post. I’ve been looking for a way to get through this addiction to sex. I just turned 41 and it’s only been in the last couple of years that I have come to the realization that what I have is an actual addiction and it’s causing more and more problems. I don’t know when it started, but I feel like it started as soon as I hit puberty. As soon as I found out what masterbating was, it seemed it went all down hill from there. First girl I had sex with was when I was 17, but oddly enough I didn’t actually start having sex with a lot of people until almost 20. I could write a novel about all of this, but I will say that after almost 25 years of having sex, I have absolutely no idea how many women I have been with. I know it’s been more than 100, and probably even more than 200. Like I said though, over the past couple of years it’s been getting harder to deal with. I’ve been married now for 8 years. The secret flings and random sex with strangers has become harder to hide. She knows… not everything… but enough to cause constant fighting. Thing is the fighting is always about something else, but I know the underlying issue is her trust of me. But what hurts even more is the change in how she sees me as a person and husband. I don’t feel like she sees me as a good person anymore. I may be wrong, but that’s how it feels, and it hurts. As for the constant need for sex, it controls me every day. I can’t even look at a woman in public without asking myself if I would have sex with her or not. And if the opportunity comes up I always try to pass my number along. I can’t help it. I love sex. I love how it makes me feel. I love the rush and excitement of both the sex and the pursuit of sex… the excitement of doing something you shouldn’t be doing. I also know that I’m pretty good at it. Not trying to sound conceited but it’s a common theme, along with my size. I sometimes feel like that’s all I have going for me as a man. I also watch porn, and now it’s gotten to the point where it’s hard to get off when having sex with my wife and I have to sneak a shower with porn session in later. And now living in a nothing to do West Texas town, I don’t know how to get sex off of my mind.
anyone else that’s hypersexual?
by femboy39
Last post
 Saturday
...See more Hi i’m m17 new to 7cups but i noticed hypersexual stuff and other sexual health doesn’t get talked about a lot here, id love to hear some of your guys experience with being hypersexual and some of your coping skills as well as just make some friends that have experiences in this area of things, id love to chat with some people and learn more about people and how it works for them as well as just have a place to chat about it, feel free to reply to this with any stories or experiences you have as well if you would like to chat more, i have a lot of experiences with being hypersexual!
Any fellow opioid (primarily fentanyl) addicts in here?
by SerenelyClean
Last post
 May 7th
...See more I would like to connect with others who have been struggling with opioid addiction, and/or are in recovery. I will be celebrating 1 year clean on April 30th after battling opioid addiction for 12 years. Started out with Mt prescribed oxycontin, and eventually moved to heroin, and then fentanyl. So I would love to connect with others who are also going through this
Mobile addiction resource
by inthequeue
Last post
 May 6th
...See more Hi guys!!!  I wanted to share an audio course which helped me with my mobile addiction. Usually I like this types of courses which are science-y and calm. I hope it helps others as well 😊 https://u6648436.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=tx5XpqTYVms-2FFMTOrVpkRUBcozfk5GFq0iWsnWI5Hxnel2aiq03KGD-2BcFGQnzbBDdEJ0fxkt-2FXPEgMVhx1U3-2Bg-3D-3D-FTY_DjjBvu3-2BxP7oBcIUjTV8da3b2UwIuncuMGLKi-2BUpF5eMDg6FUnuPgfnocxtHVf5buU3O7AeGAPFUSGuO7HY6ccFOOPDv-2FcFshVsnNcpZ3O19JjXG2cmNZzQ-2FH-2Bv2sTODT0j7iFdlJxdccPP8W-2Bftd6rqpEtxSIx2hK3Uw8OyrgkLLWGK-2Bl-2Bqb3X1KskYSzn2jk1ULsbNJKrNUwtBHZBc2Q-3D-3D
Internet addiction
by Dirtshine
Last post
 May 5th
...See more .I don't have anyone to talk about this.  I am hoping I can reach out to people who have went through  ; or  are going through this , like I am,  at the moment.  Thank you for taking time to read. 

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