• The General Mental Health Forum is now a Read Only Forum. As we had two large areas making it difficult for many to find, we decided to combine the Mental Health & the Recovery sections of the forum into Mental Health & Recovery as a whole. Physical Health still remains as it's own area within the entire Recovery area.

    If you are having struggles, need support in a particular area that you aren't finding a specific recovery area forum, you may find the General Struggles forum a great place to post. Any any that is related to emotions, self-esteem, insomnia, anger, relationship dynamics due to mental health and recovery and other issues that don't fit better in another forum would be examples of topics that might go there.

    If you have spiritual issues related to a mental health and recovery issue, please use the Recovery Related Spiritual Advice forum. This forum is designed to be like Christian Advice, only for recovery type of issues. Recovery being like a family in many ways, allows us to support one another together. May you be blessed today and each day.

    Kristen.NewCreation and FreeinChrist

What addiction really is

If Not For Grace

Legend-but then so's Keith Richards
Feb 4, 2005
28,116
2,268
Curtis Loew's House w/Kid Rock & Hank III
Visit site
✟46,998.00
Faith
Christian
Marital Status
Married
Politics
US-Republican
Addiction is the Malady of More.. and it knows no bounds. It affects people from ALL crosswalks of life and is growing to a pandemic level. It is 3 fold in nature (Physical, Mental and Spiritual) and SO is recovery. All 3 issues must be addressed for recovery to be effected. The good news is there IS a solution. Contact any 12-Step group for more information of HOW to go about it.
 
Upvote 0

Reyes4Christ

Active Member
Aug 5, 2015
71
18
46
✟7,792.00
Faith
Christian
Marital Status
Married
Science and medicine can help those who are addicted if the addict knows how to use it and apply it so they can live a longer life but Jesus can fix your current life and afterlife. You have to be born again in the spirit so you can even enter the heavenly kingdom when your body dies so with that kind of logic there is room for things that are physical to also have a spiritual component, even addiction. I believe many people have been delivered from all sorts of addictions by faith and repentance through Jesus Christ. And He already paid the price so the help is all free for the taking.
 
Upvote 0

Ekim

Member
Oct 27, 2015
10
1
54
✟7,636.00
Faith
Non-Denom
Marital Status
Single
is rolling stones a Christian group or something? why would a Christian have Keith Richards in their signature.? Rolling stones sing that song, 'sympathy for the devil', seems like that is #1 problem in Christian world today. They have so much 'sympathy' for Satan they almost worship the object of their sympathy.

enemies of a movement are often called 'sympathizers' with the opposition.
 
Upvote 0

Ekim

Member
Oct 27, 2015
10
1
54
✟7,636.00
Faith
Non-Denom
Marital Status
Single
Some insightful comments here.

A fulfilling life is the answer.

To use the bonding analogy, we form stable compounts.

If you bond with God there is no need or room for alternatives in your soul.

sometimes I think it is actually just biological stress, emotional stress they repeat something that reduces the stress ad infinitum it's just all they really know to do. Of course the social emotional problems are there too but often it is caused by biological organic problems. If you are sexually unappealing or something most of the beautiful people well have nothing to do with you, let's be honest. Much of your life is about what you look like in the brave new world.

if you cured the biological defects that make them unwanted they would not suffer the social isolation. It is not really even the arrogant people's fault, they would probably have hard time interfacing with the hot shots at their speed and their level of functioning.
 
Upvote 0