Have you noticed? You clicked away from whatever it was you’ve been doing for hours. Probably because you know. You know that internet addiction is getting in your way. Internet addiction is interfering with your real, offscreen, offline life. It seemed harmless at first. A necessary part of modern life. But now your dedication to the Internet is messing with your health, the way you think, and how your feel about yourself and others. Like all...
The Internet and You: A Normal Part of Everyday Life or Addiction?
Recently, a celebrity country singer and well-known camping store promoted “Disconnect Day.” An admirable effort to get people to “set aside the small screen to once again see the big picture.” The promotional TV ad invited audiences to tune in to each other. Enticing nature shots, montages of laughing families fishing on lakes, and the raspy chorus of Louis Armstrong’s “It’s a Wonderful World” played softly in the background. If you could drag...
5 Reasons Why Partners of Sex Addicts May Need PTSD Treatment
Joann doesn’t have a combat story. There was no tragic, terrifying accident. No natural disaster. In fact, she is so ashamed, she cannot even call it what it is. Even so, her trauma is real. Months after finding the salacious images on her husband’s tablet, she is still rehashing his disclosure, and his absurd assertion that it is all “no big deal.” The unexpected, life-altering event that turned her sense of security inside out, and her life...
Why “Intimacy Anorexia” is More Than “Just Not in the Mood”
Why do sexually addicted people tell their partners that they are not in the mood? Isn’t sex the activity of choice? Why withhold it from the one person who genuinely wants to be with them? Because sometimes, sexual addiction actually reveals itself through a person’s repeated and prolonged state of not being in the mood for intimate love making. Sometimes, in a sex addicts mind, anxiety and fear accompany appropriate sex and real love....
Sex Addiction: Take These Steps to Recognize and Overcome Denial
When you’re addicted to sex, you become pretty good at deception. You can’t tell the truth. You won’t. Not to anyone, especially yourself. Why? Because sex addiction blinds you. You willingly close your eyes to a brewing storm of consequence and emotional pain. Your sexual cravings are the only truth that counts, and you deny the depth and harm of it all. The fact is your sexual addiction requires you to take specific action– difficult, but...
