SEX ADDICTON
by María Fernández
1. CONSEQUENCES
1.1. - Problems in interpersonal relationships. - Anxiety and irritability when sex is not achieved. - Low self-esteem. - Problems with impulse control. - Risk of sexually transmitted infections.
2. TREATMENT
2.1. Treatment for sex addiction should be individualized, given the diversity of causes that can lead to its occurrence. The two most common groups of treatments are: pharmacological and psychotherapeutic. Drug treatment includes: Serotonin reuptake inhibitors at high dose.
3. CENTRES
3.1. NO-A , Ivatad, Vida nova, La Clínica de Psicología G. Sin Adicciones, El Forum Terapeutic Valencia are one of the most important addiction treatment centers in this city and its team of professionals is formed by highly qualified and experienced psychologists and psychiatrists. Psychotherapist Karen Johanna Duarte Moreno and Luis Miguel Real Kotbani have specialized throughout their career in treating addictive disorders present in people of any age and also in the field of couples and families.
4. CAUSES
4.1. ENVIROMENTAL:
4.1.1. School failure, dysfuntional and trouble family or having suffered abuse in childhood.
4.2. BIOLOGICAL:
4.2.1. serotonin and noradrenaline and dopamine levels. In that case, when a person consumes pornography, the brain produces dopamine, and manufactures DeltaFosB. If they only consume pornography and do not experience sexual activity for themselves, the actions they used to be able to indulge in will no longer be able to do so because they do not produce the same satisfaction as pornography does.
4.3. PSICHOLOGICAL:
4.3.1. people with low self-esteem who find in sex an escape route to their personal, social and emotional problems.