Self help modules:
This module aims to help you explore and gain understanding of your level of control over your current online sexual behaviours and how to make immediate changes to start the change process.
I am genuinely grateful for the enormous amount of support and help I have received. Sometimes just to have someone prepared to listen was so gratifying. I was made aware of the victim impact, and I now do not access anything other than day-to-day internet needs and will never return to my past behaviour.
Using the quiz below, select how in control you have felt of your behaviours.
Now answer these questions:
It is important that you recognise that making changes can be hard and so people can easily go back into old habits. There are some practical steps that you can do to make it harder to return to old patterns of behaviour, you can do these while you work through some of the modules that help with longer term changes.
Make a list of three things you can do to immediately reduce your risk of illegal online sexual behaviour, e.g.:
If you identify with the statements in the list then denial could be helping you to keep doing a behaviour that you know is harmful. It is important that you challenge these thoughts if you recognise them.
Has this module raised any further questions for you or made you want to explore any ideas further? What steps do you plan to take to seek out this information?
If you want to discuss anything covered in this module, have struggled with working through the self-help material or just want the opportunity to work through the self-help site with a practitioner to guide you then please call the Stop It Now helpline for confidential support from our trained staff.
Our confidential helpline is free and available to anyone concerned about the safety of children.
