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1C – Taking responsibility

In this section, we will help you understand your level of responsibility for your fantasies or consumption of child sexual abuse images on the Internet.

Objectives

This section aims to help you explore and understand the following:

• Your level of control over your current fantasies or online sexual behaviours
• How you have used denial to allow your problematic behaviour to continue
• How to make immediate changes to start the change process

Anxiety is often a response to feeling out of control.

When we feel we have lost control, we often attempt to regain it. When we fail, we feel a deep loss and our anxiety starts to build. This feeling can be overwhelming. It causes us to feel uneasy, discontented and lost because we are always looking for something else to make us feel better. We often turn to short term fixes such as alcohol, drugs, gambling or sex to feel better. Sometimes these behaviours then start to feel they are out of our control.