So life moves forward.

Due to confidentiality rules, I cannot say who was in my therapy group or what exactly they said. So I will discuss things said in general about addictions.

There was a general discussion as most of them battle it. The therapist participated, obviously.

I listened, fascinated, as they spoke of struggling with the urges, the voices that tempted them, the cravings that sucked them down and destroyed them.

One woman said addiction was the worst thing to ever happen to her.

Addiction was personal; it spoke to you and tempted you. It was tricky, cunning, cruel.

It consumed you and got worse and worse. You hit bottom after bottom; someone compared it to a sucking hole.

They started getting religious, after saying they weren’t. Someone finally said, not to get religious, but addiction is like the devil.

Ding ding ding!! I was screaming inside my head, that is because it literally IS a demon!!

It was so utterly painfully obvious to me. Addiction is a spiritual issue in which a demon is controlling you and calling the shots.

As most people lack the spiritual power to get rid of this demon, many things have been created to help deal with the effects.

Ways of modifying your thinking to fight the urges and temptations. Medications to help with the pain of it all. Whole therapies and meds developed to help you LIVE with the demon.

The lie is it is lifelong and incurable, and so you must have massive coping skills. You do need massive coping skills. I learned them all, and concluded they did help me cope.

They didn’t heal me or solve anything. Modern psychology and psychiatry is built around helping the patient live with problems they cannot solve, and know they can’t.

A demon is indeed a lifelong and incurable condition if you do not know the truth! Or if you do, how to get rid of it.

The Bible says you can’t use demons to cast out demons. Joining the occult is like joining the Mafia. More powerful spirits “protect” from lesser ones, but it is all the Mafia at the end of the day.

I am not going to talk further about the details of deliverance ministry, other than this is the clear and only remedy. Only Jesus can solve your demon issues; you will find this is true in the end.

I am not going to conveniently link to any resources either. I recommend finding a Catholic exorcist. They are honestly hard to get to; the Church protects their identities. But go to a Catholic church, talk to a priest.

I cannot in good conscience recommend Protestant ministries that may be fine now and corrupt tomorrow. Catholicism has issues, but it has power and authority granted to only it by the Lord Himself.

Other little podunk churches usually end up listening to some other spirit and run off the rails. Actually big ones too. Joel Osteen comes to mind.

Mainstream evangelicalism is a hotbed of magickal, occult practices. I will stick with Catholicism, thanks.

So took all that away from the group meeting.