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The sad answer is you just have to keep persisting. God desires for you to struggle, as much as it may seem strange, it's the truth. He may even will for you to struggle for 5 more years of this, but it is what it is. It is actually beautiful, though hard to see. God does not will for you to sin of course, but God desires for us to be saved as victors, rather than making it easy. He desires for us to carry a cross. The only advice I can give you is that to keep praying, and keep trying to resist. There is no easy fix, God likes people who keep struggling. As long as you keep struggling, eventually you will overcome it. Just don't get disheartened if it doesn't solve itself otherwise. Keep praying and meditating.

Gadolig struggling with porn but finally learning to deflect it here; pray, read good Catholic books, stay away from the internet if you are tempted to watch porn, go to the gym to tire yourself out so you go home, take a shower, eat dinner and fall asleep quickly. It's gonna take time, and the first weeks are the hardest; I lasted three months, then I slipped and despaired, thus went into the usual vicious circle. Now I am slowly crawling out with God's help.

Prayer is key, together with going to mass, receiving the sacraments of reconciliation and communion…say the rosary every day, take an hour of your day to stay in silence and pray the five mysteries of the day. And if you can, start to slowly use our phone/laptop/computer less and less, acquaint yourself with silence and fill your time by doing house chores, reading and/or doing something useful in and for your local church and parish.

Pull the plug from Facebook, that damned sinkhole and pretty much the antechamber to madness, self-centered opinions and self-loathing for the sake of attention.

I am 28, it took me 27 years to start to understand how important prayer is in this fight, and how weak I am no matter what if I do not put myself into God's hands.

Take care, and let's pray for one another :)

>>729437

Surrender, my brother. Surrender yourself completely to Jesus Christ, then He will give you the grace to overcome this.

"I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing."

- John 15:5

expose yourself to less erotic stuff and it will become possible to resist. You're just surrounded by too much eroticism - this is why monks leave society, so they are exposed to less temptation which makes thinks like resisting the urge to masturbate manageable.

by now it really isn't so hard for me anymore, as I avoid erotic things in most spheres of life and grown very used to it, you can do the same. This is the trick to winning this game.

What happens if you begin to look at porn but then stop yourself, moments into it you just suddenly tell yourself it's not worth it.

There are 2 paths here:

1 is that you recognise the sin and overcome your weakness at a vulnerable moment where temptation is peaked

2 is ignore it and continue to watch the porn knowing that it's a sin and knowing that you had a chance to stop

personally f you are addicted then 1 is not worth confessing, God knows you overcome a difficult battle and a small victory such as that is important to winning your war

>>729830

>1 is not worth confessing

I think you misunderstood what you meant here. Can you repeat that?

>>729832

like i say, not worth confessing to have a small temptation which you overcome