Treating Sex Addiction

Hattiesburg, sex addiction is a disease similar to other addictive diseases such as addiction to alcohol or drugs. Not a bit of time it takes to treat a sex addict. But there are several key steps that can help the sex addict to get out of uncontrolled sexual urge.

One of the sex addict who is now being much talked about golf world is Tiger Wood's athletes. A week after getting caught cheating and playing with many other women besides his wife, Wood reportedly went into rehab sexual addicts, namely the Pine Grove Behavioral Health and Addiction Services, Hattiesburg. Sex addiction is not just a disease caused by can not resist temptation or sexual excitement, but also because of an inability to control behavior. There are several types of sex addiction, one of which referred to sexual anorexics, namely to avoid physical intimacy with a partner and looking for fantasy with another.

Rob Weiss, director of the Sexual Recovery Institute, Southern California, as reported by Time, estimates 90 percent of sex addicts are male. Left rehabilitation for sex addicts varies from 2 weeks for patients not treated and 6 weeks for patients treated at the clinic, as experienced by Tiger Woods. Treatment was given varies cause. But definitely there is one-one discussion sessions (one-on-one), group therapy, family counseling and there are 12 other programs. But the key to the success of rehabilitating sex addict there are actually three, namely:

·       Evaluation of curriculum vitae

"Almost all male patients who become sex addicts have been abused or neglected during childhood. It would be difficult to handle a sex addict if you do not know the cause first," said Weiss.

·       Changing perspective

Are sex addicts thought sensual massage or seeing pornography all day is the norm and not the behavior of sex addiction? Trying to bring the patient it does not mean to make him ashamed, but to force him to understand what really happened to them. "We can not stop the behavior, but we will try to help reduce it," said Weiss.

·       Preventing recurrence

Brian McGinness, a financial analyst from Michigan admitted spent 9 years of marriage to addicted to pornography. He was treated by church members, neighbors and friends a way to monitor Internet usage. With the existence of such monitoring, Brian managed to get out of addiction pornography.

There are many ways to prevent disease relapse sex addiction, one of them by not allowing yourself to be alone and have time to re-perform deviant sexual behaviors. Besides relying on the rehabilitation of sex addicts, the role of partners is also very important to cure the patient. Tiger Woods wife, Elin Nordegren for example, frequently visiting the Wood in rehab in Pine Grove. "The healing process is a process which must be experienced partner in a unity because it involves the restoration of the family," said Dr. Douglas Weiss from the Heart to Heart Counseling Center in Colorado who also had experienced sexual addiction for 20 years.

"If a sex addict and a sexually transmitted disease 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 be able to learn how to do sex properly and happy," said Canning.