Envy thy name is Addict70

[addict70]

OK, take this one with a grain of salt. I'm just venting here. I'm just about done getting through my first week and I gotta admit I'm downright green with envy over some of these posters. This first week felt like pulling a dead buick through a swamp with the parkng break on, but then I turn around and see "Just finished 7 days, was'nt that bad, ran a marathon, did some backflips" and such. Irk!

Of course I should just be happy for their success. Everyone's experience is'nt the same. It could just be (dare I say it) they just have a better attitude than I do.

OK I'm done being a crybaby. ;D

[Big Country]

A70, I remember early in the recovery process, it was much more difficult to go without p or mb. If I went a whole week that was a major accomplishment. I did find that as time goes by, it releases some of it's hold on you. The trick is to not binge if I relapse. If I get right back on the horse, I don't think my body pulls itself down as far and resistance is built.

The early part really sucks though. Hang in there, it will get better. Just not as quickly as we would like.

[chasmjumper]

I think one of the best cures for envy is to be thankful.

*many others will never even find this forum or some other support. PA will just waste them away and absolutely total their lives, and they'll never have known there was a better way. They might even go so far as to act out in illegal and highly immoral ways so that they spend years alone in a prison cell.
*many people will never fall into PA. That's because they live in a (expletive) hole dictatorship where they are lucky to eat once a day, never mind owning a computer and having a private room for a wank.
*some people who never wanted porn because they got all the amazing sex they could ever want and also got AIDS along with it.

I'm thankful I'm not one of those people or one of several billion others with bigger problems.