SEXUAL ADDICTION: LEASHING THE LONGING

Treatment for sex addiction usually occurs after something unfortunate happens. “Something puts the addict over the line,” Dr. Carnes says. “A doctor kills a patient because he’s been up all night bingeing on sex, or a businessman loses his marriage when the paper prints a story about his arrest for soliciting a prostitute. “At some point, addicts realize they’re in trouble,” Dr. Carnes says. “They have less and less control over the behavior, it’s getting more and more risky to satisfy. Like alcoholics, they...

SEXUAL ADDICTION: REASONS FOR THE OBSESS...

Many factors cause sex addiction. Most addicts come from families in which addictions thrive, like alcoholism, compulsive eating, gambling or sex. Most also have a history of sexual or physical abuse—over 80 percent. They also tend to come from families who have negative and rigid attitudes toward sex. According to Aviel Goodman, M.D., director of the Minnesota Institute of Psychiatry in St. Paul, in a report he wrote for the Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy, more than 50 percent of sex addicts have had addiction problems with drugs or alcohol. Sex addicts frequently...

FAST FACTS ABOUT HEADACHE

How common: At least 90 percent of Americans have a headache sometime in a year. Risk factors: Stress, family history, food sensitivities, disrupted sleeping or eating patterns. Age group affected: While everyone is subject to headaches, they occur most frequently between the ages of 35 and 45. Gender gap: Women are three times more likely than men to get migraines, and have a higher overall rate of headaches. Men are equally as likely, as women to suffer from tension headaches, but are much more likely to get cluster headaches—for every woman suffering from a cluster...

PSYCHOGENIC IMPOTENCE (COMMON IMMEDIATE ...

FEAR OF FAILURE: A male has to produce an erection in order to penetrate the vagina. As long as the sexual mechanism works normally he is not conscious of it, as erection, like the beating of the heart, is not under conscious control. But if the erection fails to takes place, consciousness is immediately alerted and panic sets in. The individual is full of self-doubt the next time. ‘Will I or won’t I?’ is the incessant and persistent long-playing record in his mind. A state of fear is generated which makes him focus all his attention on his erection. The...

PSYCHOGENIC IMPOTENCE (COMMON IMMEDIATE ...

Once the failure of erection occurs the unfortunate individual usually grinds his teeth and says, ‘I must succeed. I must not fail.’ Instead of letting himself go during the preliminaries of love play, he constantly watches or spies on his penis. Erection never occurs when the will power is altered; the organ remains limp and lifeless which in turn starts a vicious cycle of anxiety, fear of failure and spectatoring. Dr. Kaplan believes that generally ‘insecure men and men whose behaviour is excessively governed by a need to excel and to compete are...