- Understand Sex Addiction
- Know Yourself Without Hating Yourself
- Where To Begin To Correctly Overcome Sex Addiction
- Explain Why Other Methods/Approaches Fail
- Why Overcoming Sex Addiction Makes The Best Sex Possible
Sex Addiction Overview
An addict continues to engage in self destructive behavior because he or she believes the addiction is necessary for survival and happiness. This belief is a subconscious, experiential one rather than conscious one. How this belief is developed over time is explained in detail Here Overcoming it and changing it takes weeks or months and in some rare cases years.
In today’s world most people feel as if sex addiction is nothing to worry about. They don’t realize their own self destructive obsessive compulsion. A sex addict will do just about anything to satisfy what can’t be ever satisfied. Sex addictions result from an abuse of the inborn need to have sex that each person is born with. This abuse commonly begins out of one’s sexual curiosity in early teens but can also be developed later in adult life. Just as other addictions like drugs or alcohol, a sex addiction becomes more important than everything else in a sex addict’s life. It can destroy every part of a person’s life. A sex addiction can ruin ones self respect, confidence, self control, time, energy, the ability to form and/or maintain an intimate relationship, in some cases it affects the ability to be intimate with their partner. It can also interfere with work, finances, health. By realizing what sex addiction is doing, a sex addict tries to stop his addictive behavior but is unable to.
Overcoming sex addiction is one of the best things a sexually addicted person can do if not the most. Where to begin to correctly overcome Pornography and Masturbation Addiction is explained in detail Here
The Most Common Problem in Overcoming Sex Addiction
One of the most common problem a sex addict has with overcoming sex addiction is the belief that he can not overcome it. This belief develops after months or years of trying to overcome sex addiction again and again yet failing. A sex addicted person gives up all hope because of this belief that he will fail again if he tried again. The problem is that in the past he tried many times and tried many different methods to stop his sexually addicted behavior but failed and now he is given up all hope. You don’t have to be stuck in this compulsion for the rest of your life. You can learn from your past mistakes and correct them before you make those same mistakes again. You can use past failed attempts to stop as to motivate your self and overcome your sex addiction with knowledge and right guidance from someone who has overcome sex addiction himself. The most common problem to overcome sex addiction is the decision not to try.
Denial of Sex Addiction
Majority of sexually addicted people are in denial of their sex addiction. They decide that sexually addicted behavior is meant as something to be enjoyed as other things in life. Some justify their sexual addicted behavior as :
“A way of having fun”
“I do it when I am stressed or when I'm bored”
“I have a high sex drive than others, especially my partner”
"If my partner doesn't know about my sexually addictive behavior, it doesn't hurt her or our relationship"
“I love having sex, it is just the way I am”
“Sex Addiction is nonsense”
“I don’t consider my sexual behavior as an addiction, there are people who do worse than me”
“Everyone does it”
These sexually addicted person’s justifications can be overcome if properly guided.