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Addiction & Recovery

JayhawkSD

(3,163 posts)

2. It eventually gets easier

Reply to Bertha Venation (Original post)

Thu Jul 5, 2012, 11:06 PM

Jul 2012

One thing about compulsions. If you give into a compulsion it returns as strong as ever. It you ride it out without surrendering it returns weakened. Maybe only a tiny bit, but weakened nonetheless. Each time you ride it out without giving in you weaken it a little bit more. Little by little the compulsion becomes weaker and weaker.

One day you realize, "Shit, it didn't come back"

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facing my addictions [View all] Bertha Venation Jul 2012 OP

Sounds like you have some Betsy Ross Jul 2012 #1

It eventually gets easier JayhawkSD Jul 2012 #2

(((bertha venation))) irisblue Jul 2012 #3

you might consider lins the liberal Jul 2012 #4