People With Sex Addiction Often Suffered Early Trauma Articles>Sex AddictionBy The RanchDecember 25, 2016The cycles of behavior exhibited by people with sex addiction are often connected to traumatic childhood experiences, particularly attachment-related trauma that continues to impair their ability to form healthy interpersonal relationships.
The Surprising Similarities Between Gambling and Sex Addictions Articles>Addiction Research, Articles>Mental HealthBy The RanchMarch 31, 2015Behavioral addictions are sometimes controversial. Not all addiction experts are willing to classify obsessive and compulsive behaviors along with drug and alcohol addictions. Many, though, recognize that there are too many commonalities between chemical and behavioral addictions to ignore. Two of the most widely accepted types of behavioral addictions, sexual and gambling, have a lot…
What Are the Treatments for Sex Addiction? Articles>Early RecoveryBy The RanchMarch 5, 2015Sex addiction is one of several possible terms used to describe patterns of sexual conduct, sexual thought and/or sexual fantasy that seriously impair a person’s ability to maintain a sense of well-being or to follow a stable daily routine. In the U.S., there is no standard definition for this form of behavioral addiction, and the…
Sex Addicts More Impulsive, Study Finds AddictionsBy The RanchNovember 25, 2014People affected by sex addiction have a form of non-substance-based behavioral addiction that centers on compulsive and harmful involvement in sex-related conduct, thinking or fantasy. Alternative terms used to describe the same condition include hypersexuality and compulsive sexual behavior. In a study published in August 2014 in the journal Dual Diagnosis, researchers from two U.S.…
