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Re: I hate myself 22 Dec 2024 22:32 #427680

Your story has a very familiar ring to it on GYE. Although I am no Baal Yeshiva myself, so I have no idea what that is like, (it's seems to me you can only gain from that type of background. Mich easier to have a defense after 120) You are not the only one who Hashem has given extremely difficult nisyonos to, and I have to say, that i've felt that the harder the nisayon the more a few things become clear:
A) Hashem can't "have it in for me". Since Hashem is perfect, so either
1) He is giving me low risk-high reward tests, which, since they are extremely difficult, get weighed on a heavy curve
2) i've kinda set myself up for certain nisyonos
3) a combination (this seems to be obviously the nisayon of our Dor, but that's not to say ”the more you feed the beast the greater it gets” doesn't apply. We still have to fight)
B)still have to fight- the biggest test may be the " vi'Kam" after a fall. But it also may be the one where Hashem will ask us the most: " "so at least why didn't you go daven maariv afterwards? Are you a bigger שופט than I?"
C) if dwelling in the past aveiros one has down is not helpful in his overall avodas Hashem, he should forget about them. Pretend that he gets a "get out of Gehenom free" card, and continue. Cuz the "Satan meiachareinu" is potentially what makes the climb out of a rut the hardest.
Sorry for rambling on your thread. Hope you found a helpful peice of chizuk. I was mostly talking to myself, as I tend to do....
Last Edit: 22 Dec 2024 22:43 by anonymousushi.

Re: I hate myself 22 Dec 2024 23:21 #427684

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UnlimitedMotivation wrote on 18 Dec 2024 16:39:
At this point I actually think that I can never succeed.

I’ve been struggling with porn and masturbation for 3 years now, ever since I became religious. But for all that time, I don’t think I have ever been clean for more than 2 weeks. I’m praying to Hashem each Shacharis, Mincha, Maariv that I break free, but at this point I think Hashem doesn’t want to hear me. Recently, I started praying to Hashem that I don’t want this challenge anymore, that I’m too weak for it and that I wish it would just disappear from my life. 

I hate all of this so damn much, I don’t want to use it, I don’t want to sin. But even with sheer hate and desire to stop, I always slip, again, again and again. Even if I stay clean for few days - one minor inconvenience or bad mood and I’m hooked again. 

I can’t believe what kind of sick person I became. In the day, Rosh Yeshiva tells me about how much good things he hears about me from rabonim in yeshiva, that I’m truly gifted in Torah, but in the night I’m the worst sinner imaginable.

During real lows, I thought about committing suicide, but I won’t do it, as this is prohibited by Torah. I went to psychiatrist, and he said that I’m not mental ill. I didn’t discuss with him my problem, though.

I can’t imagine what I can do at this point. All the methods, steps, techniques, all of that didn’t work, so I’m just skeptical about everything. Even if I have motivation to stop, I already know that I will fall once again

please, help me.

Communicating One on one with people from Gye has really helped me. When I get the urge,  I reach Out and am usually able to prevent a fall 
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