What is Sexual Addiction?
Sexual addiction, or hyper-sexual disorder, is described as a progressive intimacy disorder characterized by compulsive sexual thoughts and acts. sex addiction is one type of addictions, it has a negative impact on both the person who is suffering from sexual addiction as well as his family. What is harmful about that kind of addiction is that the addict usually has to intensify the addictive behavior to achieve the same results.
In the following few paragraphs, we will discuss the meaning of sexual addiction, what causes it, and some of the symptoms that the addict may experience as well as the treatment of sexual addiction.
What Causes Sexual Addiction?
Why do some people are addicted to sex and why are they not? The answer to that question is never easy, but according to the latest reports, the reason behind the sexual addiction may be because of some biochemical abnormality, as well as some brain changes that may trigger sexual addiction.
Besides the biochemical changes, some medications like antidepressants and other psychotropic medications have proven its effect on increasing sexual addiction.
Food plays another role in sexual addiction, as well as drugs, as they both share a common way within our brains and the rewarding systems.
And Here is how the person becomes addicted:
- The brain tells the addict that it is okay to obey his addiction-like eating when you are hungry that is when the person becomes addicted as the brain convinces his body to do so. The addicted brain fools the addicted body by producing hormones and biochemical rewards for obeying and satisfying that addiction.
- Sexual addiction can be tricky, as it doesn’t have that experience for the sake of intimacy but for the sake of pleasure. Usually addicted use it to get distracted from work difficulties or unsolvable personal problems, that is why sexual addiction is different from any other addiction like drug or alcohol addiction.
Who can get addicted?
According to the studies, sexual addicts come from unstable families, and more likely, sexual addicts got sexually abused in their childhood.
Symptoms of Sexual Addiction
There is no definite list of sexual addiction symptoms, but some symptoms may include:
- Engaging in more sex activities than usual with more than one partner.
- Unsuccessful attempts of cutting down.
- Thinking about it all the time.
- Neglecting other activities such as work, school, and family.
Sexual Addiction Treatment
Unlike drug addiction and alcohol addiction, the main goal of sexual addiction treatment is not its lifelong abstinence but getting rid of its compulsive, unhealthy sexual behavior.
The reason behind that is that it is very difficult to differentiate between healthy sex and unhealthy sex, so it is preferred to ask a doctor or a therapist if you think you might suffer from sexual addiction.
Most of the sexual addiction programs suggest a 60- to 90-day period of self-imposed abstinence.
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