Sex Addiction
But there are several key steps that could help sex addicts to get out of the sexual impulse control.
One of the sex addict who is now being discussed is the athlete warm world of Tiger Woods golf. A week after getting caught cheating and playing with many other women besides his wife, Wood reportedly went to rehab sexual addicts, the Pine Grove Behavioral Health and Addiction Services, Hattiesburg.
Sex addiction is not merely due to illness could not resist the temptation or sexual stimulation, but also because of the powerlessness to control the behavior.
There are several types of sex addiction, one of them called sexual anorexics, namely to avoid physical intimacy with a partner and find another fantasy.
Rob Weiss, director of the Sexual Recovery Institute, Southern California, as reported by Time, Thursday (28/1/2010) memperikirakan 90 percent of sex addicts are male.
When rehabilitation for sex addicts ranged from 2 weeks for untreated patients and 6 weeks for patients treated at the clinic, as experienced by Tiger Woods.
Handling given vary depending on the cause. But there must be a discussion session only (one-on-one), group therapy, family counseling and there are 12 other programs.
But the key to the success of rehabilitating sex addict actually there are three, namely:
1. Evaluation resume
“Almost all patients who become addicted men had experienced sexual violence or neglect during childhood. It would be difficult to handle sex addict if you do not know the cause first,” said Weiss.
2. Changed the way
Does the thought of sex addicts sensual massage or seeing pornography all day are common and not a sex addict’s behavior? Trying to revive that patient will not mean to embarrass him, but to force him to understand what is really happening to them. “We can not stop the behavior, but we will try to help reduce it,” said Weiss.
3. Preventing recurrence
Brian McGinness, a financial analyst from Michigan admitted spent 9 years of marriage to addicted to pornography. He treated the church members, neighbors and friends a way to monitor Internet usage. With such monitoring, Brian managed to get out of it pornografinya addiction.
There are many ways to prevent disease relapse sex addiction, one of them by not allowing yourself to be alone and have time to return to sexual behaviors deviant.
In addition to entrust to the rehabilitation of sex addicts, the role of partners is also very important to heal the patient. Tiger Woods wife, Elin Nordegren example, often visited Wood in rehab in Pine Grove.
“The healing process is a process that must be lived as a couple because it involves the restoration of unity of families,” said Dr. Douglas Weiss from the Heart to Heart Counseling Center, Colorado that also have experienced sexual addiction for 20 years.
“If a sex addict sexually transmitted disease and never say that to his wife, his attitude was tantamount to killing her partner,” added Dr. Douglas.
According to Maureen Canning, a clinical consultant from Meadows Addiction Treatment Center, Arizona, to actually cure a sex addict takes 2 to 5 years of therapy.
“Sex addiction therapy is not intended to eliminate sexual desire for life, but to learn how to have sex with the right and happy,” said Canning
