What are the signs of sexual addiction?
Dr Patrick Carnes, one of the world’s leading experts in sexual addiction, suggests that there are 10 possible warning signs • 1. Feeling that your behaviour is out of control • 2. Being aware that there may be severe consequences if you continue • 3. Feeling unable to stop your behaviour, in spite of knowing the consequences • 4. Persistently pursuing destructive and/or high risk activities • 5. Wanting to stop or control what you’re doing and taking active steps to limit your activities • 6. Using sexual fantasies as a way of coping with difficult feelings or situations • 7. Needing more and more of the sexual activity in order to experience the same level of high • 8. Suffering from intense mood swings around sexual activity • 9. Spending more and more time either planning, engaging in or regretting and recovering from sexual activities • 10.
