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Treating Sex Addiction: FAQ

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Treating Sex Addiction: FAQ

1. Why Sex Addiction?

There are approximately four hundred and twenty million adult websites currently active on the internet. For this reason, it is also increasingly hard to control or eliminate the content of these websites. There is always more – more variety and more stimulation available only a click away.

Many of us like to dismiss pornography as something harmless, with a “Guys will be Guys” attitude. Others believe that it is destructive to families and demeaning to women. It is not my intention to propagate either view, but to point out the progression of pornography addiction. As time goes on, addicts retreat further and further into a world of fantasy withdrawing from friends, family and work. It takes on a life of its own so that the more you engage in viewing pornography, the more it takes over your life.

2. How can I get help with Porn Addiction?
Most sex addicts live in denial of their addiction and yet treating addiction successfully is dependent on the person accepting and admitting that he or she has a problem. In many cases, it takes a significant event—such as the loss of a job, the break-up of a marriage, an arrest, or health crisis—to force the addict to admit to his or her problem.
Treatment of sexual addiction focuses on controlling the addictive behavior and helping the person develop a healthy sexuality. Treatment includes education about healthy sexuality, individual counseling, and marital and/or family therapy. Support groups and 12 step recovery programs for people with sexual addictions (like Sex Addicts Anonymous) also are available.

3. What are my challenges to recovering from Sex Addiction?

Sex addicts, like most other addicts, rarely quit unless they hit what is called “rock bottom”. This bottom may be a family member catching them looking at porn or chatting online, or finding suspicious credit card charges. The bottom can be an extreme consequence such as an addict being forced into bankruptcy or getting arrested. Whatever your bottom may be, recovering from sexual addiction can be a daunting task. The first step is to ask yourself, “Could it be possible that I have an addiction?” Now, answer the question. Recovery begins as soon as you answer the question honestly.

One way of doing this is to look at the symptoms as they show up in your life and confront them. Justifying and rationalizing your behaviors are a natural part of this stage and therefore, you may want seek the help of a trained professional. Acknowledging that you may have a problem can be painful. Addiction has tangible benefits-intense emotional highs and an escape route from a perceived intolerable reality.

4. Are there alternative treatment approaches to recovery?

Traditionally, recovery from addiction combines in-patient rehab programs, out-patient psychotherapy and attending 12 Step Meetings.
A new and very powerful means of freeing yourself form the grips of addiction is training in Mindfulness. Mindfulness is about learning to experience life fully as it unfolds—moment by moment. Note that addiction is primarily an escape route: it is a coping mechanism allowing us to flee reality. Mindfulness shows you how to practice the exact opposite of escaping. It is about living life moment by moment. Dr. Scott Peck says in The Road Less Traveled, that mental health is a commitment to Reality at all costs. Mindfulness is the powerful practice of looking deeply into our pain leading the way for understanding, compassion and loving kindness. It is through loving kindness, that we are finally able to transform the seeds of suffering into peace and joyousness. In the East, mindfulness has been a primary tool of spiritual exploration for thousands of years. In the West, it is being increasingly employed as a fundamental healing modality. It gives us the courage to not only look reality in the eye but to actually make friends with it.

Addiction accompanies a lack of compassion for self. Notice how hard you are on yourself. In fact, you may even take pride in it. Some people call it perfectionism. Whatever, you call it – this habit only produces negativity in you and sets you up for failure. Through compassion, you can begin to release the negativity and accept that you are after all human. Compassion does not mean not taking responsibility for your actions. It just means that you recognize that what you are going through is hard and often painful. In Buddhist tradition, this is called Loving Kindness. Developing Loving Kindness and friendliness toward yourself means that you stop beating up on yourself and treat yourself with the same kindness with which you would treat your child.

To learn more about Addiction and dynamic new ways to treatment, check out: http://www.InnerBalanceandPeace.com
Call 703-723-6998 or Toll Free: 1-888-438-8989 today.
For Telephone Coaching for Recovery, contact Rochna@radicaltransformation.com
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Rochna Hazra is a Licensed Professional Counselor in the State of Virginia and has a Master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Virginia Tech. Originally from India, she brings a beautiful and unique blend of the East and the West. She combines the Eastern traditions of mindfulness, non-judgment and a holistic approach to healing with the Western approach of realism and solution-focused action that she has gained from her education, training and work.

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Rochna Hazra Licensed Professional Counselor www.InnerBalanceandPeace.com 703-723-6998

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