Help is available
You do not have to be alone and you cannot thrive alone. Consider these resources to help you find the people you need.
About Therapy and Support Groups
Finding a therapist who is a good fit for you is important. Get to know people in your 12 step group and ask for recommendations. Look for certifications in areas that fit your issues such as certification in sex addiction or substance abuse. If you want to use other medications to control withdrawal symptoms, that requires a doctor with specific certification. When the going gets tough you will be tempted to quit but that is when the best breakthroughs can happen. Keep going!
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Whatever you are struggling with, a support group can be found! Hoarding, excess spending, clutter, whatever feels like an addiction to you, other people are struggling with. Don't be afraid to search for specific groups and remember inspiration for recovery can be found anywhere you look once you are ready to face a problem and find a solution. A group that is not exactly what you were looking for can still be a very good support for you in your recovery. the twelve steps have helped many people and have now been shown to restore the brain which can be seen as step 12 "spiritual awakening".
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We admitted we were powerless over our addiction, that our lives had become unmanageable.
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Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
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Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of our higher power.
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Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
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Admitted to our higher power, ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
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Were entirely ready to remove all these defects of character.
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Humbly asked our higher power to remove our shortcomings.
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Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
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Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
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Continued to take personal inventory, and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.
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Sought to improve our conscious contact with our higher power.
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Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to others and to practice these principles in all our affairs.