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Dear Guard, I just want to let you know that B"H I am 172 days clean on the internet and I owe you and everyone involved with this great organization a tremendous hakaras hatov for helping me get started. Just to give a little background since my childhood I have always s...

I just want to let you know that I have been making a Double Fence TaPhSiC shevua for the last few weeks but I never came close to even needing it all that time and I wondered if maybe it was a shevuah levatolo. Until last Thursday night, when I had a major slip and rea...

The past year has been different than most of the years of my life until now. Greater awareness, hope, a shared struggle, a glimpse of some truly precious neshomos who populate GYE, a feeling of belonging to a group of truly good people, an entirely new perspective on rel...

With the greatest of humility, I thank the Almighty for 2 years clean on April 8th. The following is partial list of what I attribute the success that I had hitherto - may the Almighty continue protect me amongst all His struggling children! 1 - Non-stop Prayer that Hashe...

I would like to congratulate you on the upcoming 1000th issue! The work that you are doing is essential to our community. GYE is the first referral for all people that come to me with issue relating to this addiction. Continue with the good work! Rabbi Yisrael Pinson

Dear Lakewood Scoop, Thank you for posting my letter [A Professional’s Response To Internet Addicts: Klal Yisroel Is Now Beginning To Deal With The Issue, March 29, 2011]. Yasher Koach gadol! It was brave of you to post this because it’s not something we generally like t...

I came home from work tonight, hungry, tired and irritable. All the wanting to act out thoughts were popping up in my head. I was thinking to myself "what am I doing wrong? Why is today different than yesterday when I was so serene? Dear G-D, help me I need you, I can't d...

The filter gabai matched me up almost a year ago with a Great guy from another neighborhood. Last night, he was in the area and we met for the 1st time face to face. We have spoken by phone many many times. In fact the ONLY connection he has with GYE is his relationship w...

To Guardyoureyes, Thank you for helping me fight this habit and aiding me in my journey to improve myself. I have recently reached 90 days clean, without slips or falls. I am currently at 101 with only a small slip, and I hope to keep at it b"h. I pray that I will keep im...

I'm so grateful to Hashem, SA, GYE, and all the support. I realized today that I need to surrender more. I read in the White Book that part of surrender is surrendering the right to act out. Another big Yesod of SA is that the recovery and surrender has to be against lust...

I would just like to share with you something incredible which just happened to me.3 days ago it was my 40th day without masturbation and porn. I got a kind of fever, cough, sore mouth and throat and I was generally feeling not so good. At night just as I was saying the S...

So I was learning Chovos Halevovos last night and Rabeinu Bachya talks about the chesbon a person has to make regarding the wonders of creation; the ones we take for granted because they are so common, but that are nonetheless no less amazing. Says the C"H that just beca...

Hey, I need to thank you... A while back you recommended SSRI medication (after all else had failed - even live SA groups) and I dismissed it. But having failed repeatedly without meds, I started taking them and they've done wonders... I haven't had any lust attacks and I...

I'm over 30 days clean since joining the site. I installed k9 and webchaver and gave the password to friends. I also receive the daily chizuk emails and regularly read the GYE site and forums to gain chizuk from other stories. Additionally, I downloaded and read both ha...

"Reb Yid" wrote us recently: Hi. I've been a Rebbe and a mentor of elementary school children for many years. I always suffered with Shmiras Ainayim since my Bar Mitzva. I've also been dealing with the addiction for about 20 years, although I didn't realize it was an addi...

I was masturbating before I knew there was anything wrong with it.Going back 20 years, I was exposed to Porn in mags and by phone (who here remembers those business cards and fake dollar bills that the Amaleknik Porn-Pushers Yemach Shemam Vezichram used to scatter all ove...

I should write an email every day to thank GYE for what it does for me and for all of klal yisrael, but I am writing now because of a special occasion. I told my wife this week of my struggles with lust; both the falls and b'h the victories. I could have done better with ...

What an awesome powerful site this is! I've been receiving daily emails for quite awhile now and it is quintessential for both addicts and non addicts to read these emails. There is no human in this world who cannot better his shmiras enayim. In this technologically advan...