Sex addiction can cause severe emotional and physical harm if left untreated. As with any addiction, a person can only receive help when a point of desperation has been reached that encourages them to become willing to seek help. Learn… Read More ›
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What is it Like For Someone Who Has Sex Addiction?
A woman explained her story with sex addiction on Health.com. Here is an excerpt from her story: “I had long affairs. I wanted sex, but I also wanted somebody’s soul, in this really ego-driven way. My life was a constant… Read More ›
Does Sex Addiction Have to be Considered Real to be Real?
Sex addiction only seems to come up in the public dialogue when sexual scandals involving celebrities and other high profile people erupt in the news. The person involved has not only hurt those in their circle, but has violated public… Read More ›
What If Sex Addiction Is A Manifestation of Love Addiction?
For millions of people, sex is love. This description resonates with people who identify themselves as codependent, love addicts, sex addicts, relationship addicts. Sex is love. In order to feel love, feel something that feels like love, or pretend that… Read More ›
What Do I Need To Know About Sex Addiction?
Sex addiction and sexuality are different things. There are some people who have an incredibly high sex drive, making it seem as though their sexuality is insatiable. Sexuality can mean… Read More ›
Can Sex Addicts In Recovery Still Have Sex?
Sex addicts in recovery from sex addiction can still continue to have sex in their recovery. Sex addiction recovery does include abstinence. Many treatment programs and twelve step programs advocate abstinence for at least six months. What that abstinence entails,… Read More ›
Is Sex Addiction Really An Addiction
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, otherwise known as the “DSM” is in its fifth edition. The most recent edition of the DSM still does include a diagnosis for sex addiction or hypersexuality specifically. Hypersexuality is a common… Read More ›
Understanding Sex Addiction
The average person thinks about sex about 15 times per day. Having a sudden sexual thought at a deemable inappropriate place and time can feel quite embarrassing. Sexual arousement during a serious meeting or conversation feels out of control and… Read More ›