Category: Sex Addiction

How Do I Explain My Sex Addiction to My Kids?

Family on the beach If one of your kids is struggling with a math puzzle, it is important to teach them the calculations behind it, not simply complete the puzzle for them. However, you wouldn’t start by teaching a 7-year-old at the level of trigonometric identities or logarithmic functions (I don’t even know what those are!). You might, for [...]
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How Does Residential Treatment for Sex Addiction Work?

Woman lying on sofa Specialism isn’t a new or strange concept to us—in fact, it has been around for thousands of years. From the academic school of Socrates to our modern universities, training, learning and preparation are well established in our collective heritage. Residential treatment for addiction and co-occurring mental health disorders—whilst not a first choice for many—is best [...]
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Sex Addiction Claiming More Kids Thanks to Social Media

Teen struggling with sex addiction and social media It seems that the general public has a hard time believing that sex can become an unhealthy addiction. And because the DSM-V currently doesn’t recognize sex addiction, formally known as Hypersexual Disorder, many therapists refuse to see it as a psychological disorder [1]. However, try telling that to the more than 9 million sufferers of [...]
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Mindfulness as a Cure for Sexual Addiction

Couple struggling with alcohol abuse and bipolar disorder I once heard someone describe our approach to life in the US something like this: If our tolerance and ability to cope is set at 100, we generally operate at 98. Then our friends, boss or children introduce one more factor and we find ourselves trying to live at 102—a recipe for disaster. It is [...]
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