NO SEXUAL ADDICTION CURE? Treating SEXUAL ADDICTION
Many people wonder whether sex addiction can be cured. A “cure” represents the permanent end to the specific instance of an issue.
One of the challenges faced by people who have sex addiction — is that not too many people will talk to you about “curing” your condition. (Except the snake-oil salesman, who will claim they can cure your sex addiction with their amazing book, technique or CD.) I do not believe it is possible to read your way out of addiction.
In fact, you’d be hard-pressed to find an authority that talks openly about “cures” for sex addiction.
What we have instead of cures for sex addiction are a bunch of sex addiction treatment methods. Most of which work pretty well, to varying degrees. But to most people seeking sex addiction assistance, treatments for sex addiction can take a frustratingly long period of time before finding one that works. For instance, finding the right, experienced sex addiction therapist that you feel comfortable working with can also take months (even longer if the “good” therapists have waiting lists).
Once in sex addiction treatment, your sexual addiction psychologist or psychotherapist rarely will mention the word cure. The word Cure is what doctors do for a broken bone. Set the bone and voila! Done. Treating sex addiction rarely results in a “cure,” per se. What it does result in is a person feeling better, getting better, and eventually no longer needing sex addiction treatment (in most cases the symptoms go away). But even then, rarely will an expert say, “Yes, you’re cured of your sex addiction.”
Why is that? Why is there such a reluctance to invoke this magical word CURE? I mean, cure literally means, “recovery or relief from a disease,” so if someone has recovered from sex addiction or has found relief, why not say the person has been cured?
I think our reluctance comes from the belief that sex addiction is psychological at core and not physical. Whereas once you’ve treated a broken bone, it’s not going to return (unless you break it again).
Specialists have a term for this “non-curing” too… Instead of removing the diagnosis from the chart at the end of treatment, they often place the phrase, “In remission” onto the end of the diagnosis instead. It’s good to hedge your bets, because you see, even when you are “cured” of your sex addiction, nobody will come out and actually say it.
Naturally professionals can’t lie to people and tell them sex addiction can be readily cured. They cannot. In virtually every instance, treatment for sex addiction takes time, effort, and money. And even treatment takes 2 to 4 months, in most cases for Codependency, before one starts feeling any sort of relief.
Which brings me back to the question — how do you cure sex addiction? The answer — you may but don’t expect a therapist to tell you that you are cured. Therapists help people understand what sex addiction is, then learn and engage new ways of resolving sex addiction symptoms, and help clients do the best they can with the resources they have available. You maybe healed through this process by the symptoms going away.
More at: http://sexual-addiction-counseling.weebly.com/
Of course you know the treatment method I recommend click here!
http://theliberatormethod.com/Welcome.html
Many people wonder whether sex addiction can be cured. A “cure” represents the permanent end to the specific instance of an issue.
One of the challenges faced by people who have sex addiction — is that not too many people will talk to you about “curing” your condition. (Except the snake-oil salesman, who will claim they can cure your sex addiction with their amazing book, technique or CD.) I do not believe it is possible to read your way out of addiction.
In fact, you’d be hard-pressed to find an authority that talks openly about “cures” for sex addiction.
What we have instead of cures for sex addiction are a bunch of sex addiction treatment methods. Most of which work pretty well, to varying degrees. But to most people seeking sex addiction assistance, treatments for sex addiction can take a frustratingly long period of time before finding one that works. For instance, finding the right, experienced sex addiction therapist that you feel comfortable working with can also take months (even longer if the “good” therapists have waiting lists).
Once in sex addiction treatment, your sexual addiction psychologist or psychotherapist rarely will mention the word cure. The word Cure is what doctors do for a broken bone. Set the bone and voila! Done. Treating sex addiction rarely results in a “cure,” per se. What it does result in is a person feeling better, getting better, and eventually no longer needing sex addiction treatment (in most cases the symptoms go away). But even then, rarely will an expert say, “Yes, you’re cured of your sex addiction.”
Why is that? Why is there such a reluctance to invoke this magical word CURE? I mean, cure literally means, “recovery or relief from a disease,” so if someone has recovered from sex addiction or has found relief, why not say the person has been cured?
I think our reluctance comes from the belief that sex addiction is psychological at core and not physical. Whereas once you’ve treated a broken bone, it’s not going to return (unless you break it again).
Specialists have a term for this “non-curing” too… Instead of removing the diagnosis from the chart at the end of treatment, they often place the phrase, “In remission” onto the end of the diagnosis instead. It’s good to hedge your bets, because you see, even when you are “cured” of your sex addiction, nobody will come out and actually say it.
Naturally professionals can’t lie to people and tell them sex addiction can be readily cured. They cannot. In virtually every instance, treatment for sex addiction takes time, effort, and money. And even treatment takes 2 to 4 months, in most cases for Codependency, before one starts feeling any sort of relief.
Which brings me back to the question — how do you cure sex addiction? The answer — you may but don’t expect a therapist to tell you that you are cured. Therapists help people understand what sex addiction is, then learn and engage new ways of resolving sex addiction symptoms, and help clients do the best they can with the resources they have available. You maybe healed through this process by the symptoms going away.
More at: http://sexual-addiction-counseling.weebly.com/
Of course you know the treatment method I recommend click here!
http://theliberatormethod.com/Welcome.html