Pornography Addiction

 

Get Help with Your Internet Porn Addiction

If you have a pornography addiction there are pornography addiction treatment programs and centers ready to help you NOW. Your pornography addiction or Internet porn addiction is slowly destroying your body and mind. You need help for your addiction to pornography, which is taking over your life, hurting those closest to you and stealing your dreams. You have tried to stop viewing pornography, but can't stop. You have always returned, worse than before. Call Recovery Connection® NOW for help. Call 1-800-99-DETOX. (1-800-993-3869).

What is Pornography Addiction?

Pornography addiction is a form of sexual addiction in which there is an abuse or overuse of the need to see porn, including Internet porn. The National Council on Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity defines a sexual addiction, including a pornography addiction, as "engaging in persistent and escalating patterns of sexual behavior acted out despite increasing negative consequences to self and others." Porn addiction help is necessary. If you or someone you know has an Internet porn addiction, help is needed NOW. Powerlessness over a compulsive pornography addiction can destroy both your personal and professional life, resulting in the loss of close relationships, work difficulties, legal issues, financial troubles, and the loss of interest in other activities you used to enjoy.

In many cases a pornography addiction is part of a dual diagnosis with a conjunctive substance addiction or psychological disorder. A large number of people addicted to pornography report that their unhealthy use of porn was a progressive process in which initial, small intrusions of pornography viewing became more and more obsessive. Attempting to eliminate the need to view porn became increasingly impossible.

Signs and Symptoms of Pornography Addiction

Although Internet porn addiction may take on various forms, viewing pornography is used as a quick fix or tension reliever to other underlying issues. Other indicators that you have a porn addiction may include:

• Obsession with pornography that dominates your life
• Excessive time spent on seeking-out pornography
• Overwhelming powerlessness and inability to stop the obsession, regardless of consequences
• Interference with normal relationships
• The need to view more porn to be "satisfied"

Consequences of Pornography Addiction

• Broken relationships
• Interference with work and productivity
• Compulsive sexual behavior which can lead to illness and contracted diseases
• Preoccupation with pornography that takes precedence over everything else
• Depression/suicidal thoughts and behaviors
• Shame and self-hatred
• Guilt and loss
• Legal and financial troubles

Pornography Addiction Treatment

Pornography addiction treatment and/or sex addiction treatment is a necessary component of any recovery. Residential or in-patient pornography addiction treatment is a powerful first step in eliminating this compulsive behavior. In conjunction with any treatment, the emotional component of your porn addiction must be examined. After the initial treatment, a follow-up within a residential recovery center is recommended. Although online help and out-patient treatments are available, pornography addiction treatment within a "controlled" environment, in which access to pornography is eliminated, can lead to a much easier transition to a permanent porn-free life.

Porn addiction treatment may contain a medical component as well. It has been shown that those undergoing Internet or other porn addiction treatment respond well with medically monitored anti-depressant medications. Prescription medication not only helps conquer mood swings and depression, but may also help curb the obsessive need for pornography.

The Emotional Aspects of Porn Addiction

As with any addiction there is an inherent feeling of shame and embarrassment that accompanies a pornography addiction. An addiction to porn affects everyone around you. Personal and professional relationships are often severed. A crucial step to porn addiction recovery is the re-building of these destroyed relationships. Usually family therapy sessions become an important factor in helping the porn addicted individual and those this abuse affected together to understand the illness and move forward together to a joint recovery.

Pornography Addiction Help

If you believe you or someone you know needs help with a pornography addiction, or for immediate assistance finding rehab centers that specialize in Internet pornography addiction and pornography addiction treatment, please call Recovery Connection® now at 1-800-99-DETOX. (1-800-993-3869) Help is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. All calls are confidential. Don't wait - GET HELP NOW!

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If your state doesn't appear on this list, please call Recovery Connection® at 1-800-99-DETOX and we will be happy to assist you.