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(@tester)
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Greetings,

This forum has several wonderful discussions on substance addictions, but nothing on the addiction to pornography.

Specific suggestions and general thoughts welcome.

Healing to all,

T

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(@bluefloppy65)
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I maybe wrong but isn't an addiction, an addicition no matter what it is for?

You say Reiki and addicitions - so I dug out my Reiki book, by Tanmayer Honervogy, as I was reading about addicitions in there a few months ago...

It deals with addictions as mental healing - Using Reiki and affirmations,

"I (name) love myself, simply beauce I am who I am" This opens up the heart and the whole burden of tighting and rejecting yourself may dissolve in a gentle tearful manner. Speaking this affirmation brings you back closer to yourself again. This affirmation embraces mind body and spirit

for one area - "I (name) now love and accept my body"

emotions - "I (name) open up my heart and now accept all my feelings"

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(@masha-b)
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I maybe wrong but isn't an addiction, an addicition no matter what it is for?

I would agree that all addictions and addictive behaviours share common threads, patterns and emotions - it is just the substance/medium/behaviour of the addiction that is different. It can be hard to comprehend how something like, say gambling, compares with bulimia, self-injury or heroin dependency - but in my experience of work with addicts in my private practice, probation service, prison service, in my voluntary work there are significant similarities, and the effective treatment and self-help approaches for recovery are similar for all types of addictive behaviour (though this is by no means simple and MUST be adapted to the individual and their circumstances).

I was at the UK & European Symposium on Addictive Disorders about 10 days ago, and there was a fantastic two-part presentation on sex addictions (incl. pornography) by [url]Prof. Patrick Carnes [/url]- his website has a lot of useful information and resources. There was a Liverpool TV company, [url]Inexcess TV [/url]recording some of the presentations - I hope that his will become available as a podcast on their website shortly.

Masha

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