Love and sex addiction
Love addicts are generally familiar with desperate hopes and fears apparently eternal. Fearing rejection, pain, new experiences, and having little confidence in their ability to inspire love and their right to be loved, they expect, want and hope for love, perhaps one of the most unfamiliar experience for them.
Sexual addiction is similar to other compulsive behaviors, a potentially destructive twist in an activity that aims improvement life. Defining sex addiction depends less and conducts themselves more personal motivations.
Sexual addiction lies in the lack of ability to control or postpone sexual feelings or actions. Need to replace the excitement of privacy. Finally, it becomes more important than looking family, career, health and even personal safety. While sexual preoccupations record growth in terms of time and energy, sex addict follows a routine as they act based on desire, which is followed by feelings of rejection, shame, despair and confusion.
Definitions may be helpful to submit a more thorough analysis of addiction. Addiction is characterized by repeated use or exercise, compulsive seeking or action of a substance despite the consequences of social, psychological and / or physically. Addiction is often but not always followed by physical dependence, a withdrawal syndrome and tolerance. Physical dependence is also described a state of psychological adaptation to a substance whose absence cause withdrawal symptoms and feelings.
The latter consist of a set of predictable symptoms and causes as a result of sudden dropping or reducing the normal dose of a substance or activity, hyperactivity symptoms consist of physiological functions that were suppressed by the drug and cease this function activated.
State of tolerance lays in the production, by a drug or activity, a decrease of biological or behavioral nature, higher doses, or if someone addicted sex a risky behavior is needed to produce an effect similar to the original.
For those addicted to love, it is:
- Energy and obsessive
- Source of inhibition
- Avoid risk or change
- Is devoid of real intimacy
- Is manipulative, follows the conclusion of agreements
- Is addictive and parasitic
- Loved one requires loyalty.
Symptoms
Addiction to sex is revealed in stages:
- Interest: ongoing fantasies about sexual situations and opportunities, they may trigger a sexual expression
- Ritual: a sexual activity or situation and is reduced to a stereotype repeated
- Uncontrolled need: a continuing involvement in sexual activity despite negative consequences and desire to stop
- Despair: guilt caused by his inability to control your behavior or to have remorse
- Other behavioral problems, chemical dependence and food problems.
If the love addicts, often their growth and development were prevented in childhood. Similarly, many of those addicted to love that they have been abuse or child neglect or minimize trauma and is considered in this process. Often their parents are addicted to sex. Stress is another cause compulsive sexual behavior, because feeding the dependent needs fantasy and withdrawal. Phenethylamine level, a chemical in the brain that causes feelings of euphoria generated by love, attraction increases with someone, causing a growing feeling of euphoria and excitement. Love and sex addicts may simply be dependent on physical and mental excitement produced by PEA and stress-related neurotransmitters.
If you discover you're in a relationship of dependency, you want to ask for specialist help. Specialized counseling is addressed to those who have directly or indirectly with this form of addiction.
Compulsivitatii overcoming sexual addiction begins by acknowledging that you own not control your sexuality. To get to this stage requires a deep analysis of self and emotional problems, physical or financial resources caused by your sexual behavior.
Treatment
Treatment should include one of the following:
- Promise that you will remain abstinent
- Rebuild relationships
- Stress control
- Help yourself.
Some treatment for sex addicts used to observe the pattern of alcoholics. Under this model, addicts are considered individuals with a chronic addiction despite attempts to change them. They face a vicious circle of consumption, self-criticism, and avoidance that is repeated constantly. This pattern focuses on three elements of the circle:
- Sex
- Self-criticism
- Who show avoidance behavior.
Counseling is based on the 12 steps method.
The three elements of the circle marked dependence of a process created using:
- A therapeutic ambient
- A deeper analysis
- A process conducted in a group
- The education
- Evaluation from others.
All 5 issues are incorporated into a therapeutic process, which begins with first contact.
Creating an environment that supports the therapeutic process is essential for this approach. Clients must be offered the opportunity to explore opinion they have about themselves without fear of another trial. Must feel they are listened to empathy and respect. The initial models of this approach, the counselor were the only therapist who mastered skills. Although this is still essential, now applies to the multidisciplinary team, a staff of professionals who have the natural qualities of therapists.
The therapist makes an initial assessment, identify the problem and, if appropriate, schedule a consultation for the patient. Performed a psychological evaluation is complete and identifies types of rejection and treatment issues. The therapist initiates near the patient during the evaluation process, in which he uses all the qualities and professional skills. Then, the therapist prepares a treatment plan to help the patient to deal with identified problems and bottlenecks that prevent the patient's response.
The patient follows a process consisting of 12 steps. | 
