10 actions vs sex addiction

Sex addicts try to overcome or avoid the difficulties of life through sexual behavior. They tend to be people who dedicate much time to search and to please their behaviour or sexual fantasies, this behavior becoming the epicenter of his life.

A person with schizoid personality disorder, added the specialists of the center specialized in addictions SINADIC of Madrid, can reach this situation by different causes:

It may be due to sexual repression, it may start as a fun or, in the majority of cases, is produced by a great emotional lack or a disappointment in the current sex life, which cannot be held sexual fantasies that you want to.

Therefore, you must take a series of actions against this dependence, according to experts:

1. individual psychotherapy. Lets stop this type of behavior and address the internal causes that have led to this situation.

2 pharmacological support. Retrieve the self-regulatory 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 essential to a withdrawal plan.

4 build a plan alternative activities. Find rewarding alternatives that replace the addictive.

5 be conscious. According to Dr. Ruiz Sánchez, is aware of these thoughts and inner feelings associated with addiction.

6 applied relaxation training. It reduces high levels of anxiety to addiction or pulse.

7. the solution of the problems. A few steps to identify the problem and choose the best alternative solutions in the long term are taught, in other words.

8. the exhibition. Confronting sexual stimuli without giving a response of impulse and addiction, so that it develops self-control not to fall into temptation.

9. the cognitive strategies. It teaches the patient to identify and challenge attitudes, beliefs, and addiction-related harmful thoughts, adds Dr. Ruiz Sánchez.

10. the prevention of relapse. After a period of abstinence often presented relapses, so it is must warn you that the addict and design procedures to prevent it.

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