Choices

@greenFae00

You bring up many valid points here 🥰

I guess in moderation everything becomes more manageable 🩵🤗

You have touched on something very real here. I cut out my addiction to video games, then quit *** because it was leading me to explicit material, then realised I had a problem with something else.

Until we get to the root cause, we can swap one addiction for another. Swapping out one harmful coping mechanism for something else.

When you look at an iceberg, you only see the top 10%, so we see a person addicted to gambling or alcohol. What we don't see is the emotional pain, the beliefs they have lived since childhood and other contributing factors that have helped to create the iceberg.

We try to tell the alcoholic to stop drinking, and if he doesn't find a different way to deal with loneliness and boredom, he will likely gravitate to a different way of medicating that pain.

I'm not interested in giving up an addiction. I want to be emotionally whole, so that I can stop perusing things that hurt me

@greenFae00

Sadly I agree.  I've dealt with a few addictions and NONE of them healthy. (Porn, sex, explicit stories and chats, phone sex, alcohol, drugs...food)

Addiction is SO hard to break free but you can turn a bad addiction into a healthier one.