Someone -- I can't recall who or where I read it -- said that people like lost son can never recover, they can never get well. I found myself identifying with that statement because like pedophila, madness is something that's "taboo" in this culture. Plenty of people who went "mad" have been told that they would never recover and many of them were treated absolutely horribly, such that their own recovery became more of an impossibility rather than a possibility.

I hope that lostson might take a few lessons from my own experience with him when he moves on to find a better fit for himself. The messages I heard told me that recovery was impossible too but I did go out there and I did find other voices who told me it could happen. Many of those voices are not mainstream because they don't fit into the culturally accepted paradigm of "the biological orientation of psychosis". I have been tossed from other communities for speaking of recovery and cure; I have been hated, hounded, and harassed for getting well without medication, doctors or hospitals. But I am also recovered. I'm where I wanted to be.

Keep walking lost son. When you find something that helps you, use it. If it doesn't help you, discard it. Hold true to your convictions and your highest good. Believe that your recovery is possible. Somewhere out there are other people like you who have moved beyond what you're struggling with. You might not read about them in medical journals because I'm going to imagine that recovered pedophiles do not shout that out to the world. There are likely treatments, programs, books, articles, and people out there who can help you -- you just have to find them.