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Hybrid Addictions Introduce New Challenges for Treatment Centers

June 27, 2013 By Hypersexual Disorders

Why does one person develop an addiction to something while others can easily leave it alone? Is it addictive behavior or is it something in the brain that causes one person to gravitate toward the substance or behavior? [Read more…]

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What Are Hypersexual Disorders

Recurrent and intense sexual fantasies, sexual urges, and sexual behavior in association with excessive time consumed by sexual fantasies and urges, and by planning for and engaging in sexual behavior.

Repetitively engaging in these sexual fantasies, urges, and behavior in response to dysphoric mood states (e.g., anxiety, depression, boredom, irritability).

Repetitively engaging in sexual fantasies, urges, and behavior in response to stressful life events.

Repetitive but unsuccessful efforts to control or significantly reduce these sexual fantasies, urges, and behavior.

Repetitively engaging in sexual behavior while disregarding the risk for physical or emotional harm to self or others.

Hybrid Addictions Introduce New Challenges for Treatment Centers

What Are Hypersexual Disorders

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