We are well aware of the dangers of SOME addictions. It is reported that nearly 12,000 people died in alcohol related traffic deaths: 33,000 in drug overdoses and over 440,000 in smoking related deaths in the U.S. in 2009 alone. The risks are obvious. We get it.
But what about sexual addiction? It’s different . . . isn’t it? How could THIS addiction kill anyone?
Although it may sound melodramatic, sexual addiction is no less damaging to a person than a cancerous tumor or a bad heart. The disease of addiction will ultimately cost you your life, whether literally or by simply commandeering your every waking moment. Experts tell us that 71% of sexual addicts have reported considering suicide as the only hope for getting out of their addictive cycle . . . and sadly, some do eventually go through with it. Many more addicts risk life-threatening disease through affairs, prostitutes and other risky behavior.
But, even those who manage to stay alive physically, are not in the clear. It may not happen today . . . or tomorrow . . . but given enough time, sexual addiction WILL suck the life out of you and ruin your relationships, reputation and maybe even your career in the process. Left unchecked, what started out as intriguing and exciting diversion will eventually turn destructive. Those that have experienced it say that actual death would have most certainly been easier than the aching loneliness and agonizing numbness that little by little replaced what remained of their lives.
God offers us LIFE . . . ALL of us. It’s not too late for you. Reach out to God and others. No matter how far you’ve gone down the wrong road, there are people and a loving God out there that can help you find your way back.
“This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live and that you may love the Lord your God, listen to his voice and hold fast to him.” — Deuteronomy 30:19-20
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Sherry
May 6, 2013This post hit home. I sign my post with my real female name and I bet anyone who has taken the time to read any of my comments probably think I’m the recovering Co-dependent, and Yes I Am, but I am also the Recovery Sex Addict. The places my sexual addiction took me were indescribable. However let me say I was spiritually plummeted into the deepest and darkest depths of pain, agony believing there was no way to return to the innocent child like women I use to be. Only through the people that God put into my life have I survived. I wanted to die, and those that were sent by God to do Gods work were there wanting me to live until I myself could want to live. I have found though my experience, sometimes it takes someone else believing in us for us to turn around and believe in ourselves. Feeling like a coward, a failure at killing myself, I finally followed them and somewhere in it all, I started to make the changes because I wanted to live. Live and Grow for me. Somewhere along my road of recovery I found God beside me like a gentle friend. And later realized God, a loving God had been with me all along. It’s been an amazing journey, one that has a lot in store for me yet. I know God was there to meet me the moment I was conceived inside my mother womb and will be with me forever, now and after…….
Thanks for having a forum where as I may participate in my recovery.
bruceandjanet
May 6, 2013What a beautiful testimony of the need for God and others in our recovery. Thank you so much for sharing!
bruceandjanet
May 7, 2013Thank you so much for your thoughts! For us, personally, a relationship with God was an important component of recovery, but you are exactly right, we ALL need connection and community to grow and heal. Even the Bible itself says “forsake not the assembling together.” We were made to function best in close relationship with others. Reaching out of our self-imposed, self-protective isolation and beginning to learn to trust and connect deeply with others is an essential and undeniable key to recovery.
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