10 actions vs sex addiction

• April 19, 2024

Sex addicts try to overcome or avoid the difficulties of life through sexual behavior. They are usually people who devote a lot of time to the search and to indulge their sexual behaviors or fantasies, turning this behavior into the epicenter of their life.

A person with this type of disorder, add the specialists of the Specialized Center in Addictions SINADIC from Madrid, you can reach this situation for different reasons:

It can be due to a sexual repression, it can start as a fun or, in most cases, it is caused by a great affective lack or a disappointment in the current sexual life, in which sexual fantasies can not be carried out. are desired

Therefore, a series of actions must be taken against this dependence, according to specialists:

1. Individual psychotherapy. It allows to stop this type of behavior and solve the internal causes that have led to this situation.
 

2. Pharmacological support. Recover self-regulating functions and inhibit the compulsive sexual response.
 

3. Stabilization. For the Spanish clinical psychologist Juan José Ruiz Sánchez , the support and collaboration of the environment is fundamental to a plan of abstinence.
 

4. Build a plan of alternative activities . Look for rewarding alternative activities that replace addictive ones.
 

5. Become aware . According to Dr. Ruiz Sánchez , it is about becoming aware of these thoughts and internal sensations associated with addiction.
 

6. Applied relaxation training. It decreases the high levels of impulse or anxiety to the addiction.
 

7. The solution of the problems . They teach, in other words, steps to identify the problem and choose the best long-term solution alternatives.
 

8. The exhibition. Confront sexual stimuli without giving an impulse and addiction response, so that you develop self-control to avoid falling into temptation.
 

9. Cognitive strategies . The patient is taught to identify and refute the harmful attitudes, beliefs and thoughts related to addiction, adds the Dr. Ruiz Sánchez.
 

10. The prevention of relapse . After a period of abstinence there are usually relapses, so the addict should be warned about it and design procedures to prevent it.

It is important to note that there are no specific treatments that "cure" the addiction to sex, although it can be controlled with cognitive therapies, groups of "sex addicts "And drugs that calm impulses and anxiety.

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