The writer of the Book of Hebrews warns, "let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles" (12:1). The warning clearly teaches two important facets of sin: 1) we have been given the ability to identify what is sin in our lives and 2) we have the power available to us in order to cast it off.
It is important, therefore, not to allow ourselves to accept the lie that our sin is a sickness over which we have no control or a weakness that we lack the strength to overcome or a mistake for which we are not truly to blame and can't be expected to forsee or take into hand.
We need to identify our sin, own it and then freely confess it to the Lord and seek the power He has offered us to destroy it.
A man does not beat his wife because she made him or he can't control himself, he does so because he denies his sin and chooses to be disobedient. One is not obese because he/she can't help over-eating or gains weight just smelling food, it is a choice to disobey while denying His power to free you. You name the sin and the problem is the same: denial and disobedience.
Certainly sin can progress to an addiction, in which case it may become necessary to seek professional and/or medical help. But even then, admitting sin and seeking to cast it off are key. God has given us the power, and part f that power may be invested in others around you, but the power is available.
Many, by the way, have overcome addictions without professional help. Some have had immediate release by fully accepting the Spirit's power to heal. Regardless if direct or indirectly through another, the power to cast off sin (even if progressed to addiction) is available to us.
"Confess your sins, one to another and pray for each other and you will be healed" (James 5:16). Jus' Sayn.
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