>>612588
A psychiatrist is going to tell you to take pills. A priest is going to offer you forgiveness.
What I will tell you is to steel your mind.
I have been on /pol/ for over half a decade, I have become a master at manipulating people and it is quite terrifying the power with which a single thought is.
If you live with and engage the modern world, you are inviting sin to live in your heart -It takes a very strong mind to resist that sin, but the sin's constant reinforcement almost always means you will fail.
For example:
I don't think about fapping until I see and advert showing a nude or sexualized woman.
It may seem like a mild sin, but it demonstrates to me how weak I really am.
Keeping God in mind has helped me to resist my temptations, at least for a little while. It's not until God slips my mind that the sin is allowed to take hold. I've tried to explain this to anybody I can, it makes no difference what religion, or if they are an atheist I tell them to look at God as 'perfection', to imagine themselves striving to become closer to this perfection. It helps, even the atheists can gain benefit from this method.
Essentially, you are using the same human weakness to your advantage. Reinforce the POSITIVE, avoid whenever possible the NEGATIVE. For me, I was so depressed, suicidal, etc. I wound up forcing myself to listen to bands like Spose and Watsky instead of music I normally listened to mostly country, still an atheist then so I didn't go to Christian music. I listened to motivational/inspirational videos on youtube so much I'd go to sleep and still hear it echoing in my ears.
I knew after careful analysis of myself that my depression was of the self loathing kind, I was depressed because of the bad things I've done. I wanted to be a good person, desperately. And I wanted to be happy. I saw both of those in Christianity. Christians get forgiveness for their transgressions, it doesn't need to weigh so heavily on their mind, psychologically it is extremely effective - if they truly believe God accepts their repentance. I had already figured out Christianity wasn't the evil society taught me to believe, but I could never truly 'believe' in God because he never answered my prayers, almost everything in my life has been painful, and {insert 20+ years of anti-God propaganda from leftists here}. I mean, I believed some sort of entity had to create the universe, but I didn't believe we were anything more than a stain on a petri dish. I realized with my knowledge of propaganda I could 'brainwash' myself so to speak, I could use what I learned on /pol/ to turn myself into a good Christian man, one who believed in God and so reap the psychological benefits of believing. So I set about it. But, this is where it gets a bit comedic, God, in his infinite wisdom did not allow me to do this. When I was in-patient I had found a bible and started reading it. I laid down in my hospital bed to rest and felt a warmth come over me, then I heard God speak to me, he said:
<Noah, I will never leave your side.
20+ years of begging God to show himself, testing him, demanding him perform parlor tricks to win me then blaspheming him when he refused. It wasn't until I decided to force myself to believe in him that he showed himself to me. Since then I have called on him so many times I'm ashamed to admit it, and he comes through for me every time.
>>612766
Hopefully what I've written can help you a bit. If you need any clarifications let me know, the basics though is just repetition. If you can get yourself into a fixed schedule and find a way to work in mindfulness of God it will be much easier to resist the temptations of sin.
The Amish do this beautifully. Wake up, pray to god. Go to work, pray to god. Eat some food? pray to god. Something good happens? pray to god. Something bad happens? pray to god. They're constantly thinking about God and how to serve him, and when you are in that state of mind, sinning becomes a difficult thing to do.
Also I'm still struggling myself. I'm very good at coming up with solutions to problems, implementing them and sticking with it -not so much. We all fail, we all sin, don't allow yourself to fall into despair about it, if you truly are repentant for your sins, God will forgive you.
Good luck anon, I'm already praying for you.