Sexual Addiction
Why Sex Addiction Is Harmful
All addictions are harmful because they destroy the lives of the addicts as well as the lives of their friends and families. Addicts can lose their health, their peace of mind, their livelihood and their relationships.
Sex addiction in particular is difficult, however. As shameful as drug addiction can be, sex addiction can be more so, not just to the addict, but to their wife and family as well. Sex addiction can destroy the sanctity of your marriage and can expose addicts and their wives to a host of painful and incurable diseases.
Sexual addiction, often referred to as sex addiction, can manifest in numerous ways. Some addicts might pressure their partners into excessive sexual engagements. Other sex addicts might seek anonymous sexual encounters, engage in extramarital affairs, or pay sex workers to fill their addiction.
People suffering from sex addiction have difficulties controlling urges related to engaging in sexual fantasies and behaviors. These urges can be damaging in and of themselves, but can cause more damage when a person suffering from sex addiction engages in harmful compulsive behaviors.
Sex addiction can be related to other addictions, and can sometimes develop due to prior addictions. For example, a person suffering from an addiction to pornography might eventually escalate to being addicted to other sexual activities when pornography ceases to provide the same level of release.
Sexual Addiction Affects Whole Families
As with other addictions, porn addiction has effects across all aspects of a person’s life. Work, family and social bonds can all be impacted by addiction. When a person develops an addiction to pornography, their brain is craving a high. The same chemicals associated with drug addictions flood into the brain creating many of the same effects. When individuals start to crave the chemical release associated with viewing pornography other portions of their life suffer. The addiction enables people to get away from the pressures of life in an unhealthy manner.
What sets pornography addiction apart from other addictions is the shame associated with the addiction. Due to the embarrassment and shame many pornography addicts face, they can retreat into feelings of denial instead of seeking treatment for the underlying issues. For most addicts, addiction can be a symptom of a larger underlying problem or problems.
Treating Sex Addiction
It is important to recognize that sexual addictions are symptoms of other life events. No one becomes addicted to sex in isolation. At Desert Solace we aim to find and treat the root causes and stresses that lead a person to seek out unhealthy outlets for their sexual impulses.
A residential environment can do wonders to help treat sex addiction. By removing our clients from the stress they would normally face, we can treat the underlying problem. Treating addiction takes time, which is why we offer our clients a residential space so they can live stress-free and focus on their treatment.
We work with families to address the addiction. Recovery involves everyone involved. By understanding the mechanisms of addiction, our clients, their spouses and their families are better able to heal from the damage caused by addiction. Our support team reaches out to families and schedules weekly phone sessions for our clients and their families.
Sex Addiction Therapy
It is important to recognize that sexual addictions are symptoms of other life events. No one becomes addicted to sex in isolation. At Desert Solace we aim to find and treat the root causes and stresses that lead a person to seek out unhealthy outlets for their sexual impulses.
A residential environment can do wonders to help treat sex addiction. By removing our clients from the stress they would normally face, we can treat the underlying problem. Treating addiction takes time, which is why we offer our clients a residential space so they can live stress-free and focus on their treatment.
We work with families to address the addiction. Recovery involves everyone involved. By understanding the mechanisms of addiction, our clients, their spouses and their families are better able to heal from the damage caused by addiction. Our support team reaches out to families and schedules weekly phone sessions for our clients and their families.
Sex Addiction Recovery
Often, sex addiction starts out with a pornography addiction, or is exacerbated by it. A male sex addict who is attempting to overcome a sex addiction but gives in to the temptation to view pornography is just setting himself up for failure.
At Desert Solace, we understand the importance of marriage and how damaging an addiction to sex or pornography can be. We have found that our clients, despite being devoted husbands and fathers, are unable to overcome their addiction just by sheer willpower and other well-intentioned suggestions like praying more often or reading scriptures every day. The nature of the addiction is often too powerful to overcome long-term by changing a few habits.
At Desert Solace, we understand how to treat sex addiction. Many of us have been in exactly the place you are now — that is what brought us to work in sex addiction counseling. As someone who has probably struggled with addiction for years, you know that denying your sex addiction or trying to keep it under wraps has not worked — it’s time to seek sex addiction help.
Sex Addiction Rehab
To learn more about our sex addiction rehab program at Desert Solace, contact our facility today. Getting well again is a process, and it takes time. The only way to reclaim your life and live a life free of addiction is to start down the path to recovery. Call now.
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