Sexual addiction is shrouded in shame and secrecy, which can prevent clients from seeking treatment and receiving the help they need to lead a healthy sexual lifestyle.
Tag: behavioral addiction
Individuals who discover a partner’s infidelity and deception must undertake a challenging journey to find healing for the mind, heart and soul.
It is imperative that all counselors, regardless of setting, are able to recognize and respond appropriately to behavioral addictions.
Using games as a coping strategy for other underlying issues can lead to an addiction, as real life is replaced with a virtual and more favorable one.
Social media has an outsize influence on many people, making it imperative that counselors provide education, guidance and strategies to ensure that clients take control of the role it plays in their lives.
Rather than conceptualizing compulsive sexuality as a moral failing, the addiction model provides a framework to empower clients to manage their condition and establish a healthy sexuality.
The number of online gamblers who exhibit problem gambling behaviors has increased dramatically in the past decade, according to reports. However, online gambling addiction did not find its way into the soon-to-be published fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V), and future editions don’t seem
Q: Sexual addiction is a result of: A) Overactive libido B) My partner’s disinterest C) Cultural permissiveness D) None of the above The answer may be obvious to those familiar with the multiple choice trope: D) None of the above. But the point remains true: There are many common misconceptions