As you delve into this article, possibly, your heart causes you to consider your circumstance. At first, the following warning signs may not appear obvious; yet, after the article, you have a new self-awareness for your sexual actions.
Porn addicts harm self and others. Perhaps you have had a vast array of relationships (romances) that end up in hopelessness.
You only want to fill a hunger for meaning, love, importance, growth, and contribution. However, porn addicts end up in despair filling none of these needs.
The following are 10 warning signals of how out-of-control sexual behaviors cause pain.
10 Warning Signals
- Porn addicts pursue illegal activities that result in an arrest.
- Porn addicts develop a routine in finding sexual partners risking venereal disease.
- Starting with porn and becoming sex addicts, many addicts experience near-death consequences.
- Viewing, listening, and masturbating to porn cause addicts to replicate that seen, heard, and physically felt from view porn videos. However, AIDS becomes with real-time reward for “acting out.”
- Many porn users eventually find it difficult to hide what is done in secret. In public, roaming eyes, flirtations, and secret romances cause the sex addict to lose a spouse or partner.
- Many porn users continuously use pornography to exhaustion or physical injury.
- Many sex addicts trace back to their pornography usage. Discovery led to loss. Many times, losing rights to their children and even breaking ties with family.
- Women developing sexual addiction from pornography report grief over abortions and unwanted pregnancies.
- Pornography overwhelm users with sexual addiction. Many sex addicts experience extreme losses in productivity on the job, threatening careers.
- Losing careers of their choice, porn/sex addicts self-esteem plummet to deep lows of depression.
- A majority of sex/porn addicts experience severe financial loss (Carnes, 1991, p.p. 14 & 15).
After reading this post, you are ready for change, aren’t you?
You know what’s best for you; you experience it in your gut.
The 10 warning signals are for your use in overcoming pornography. However, changing is a matter of a must-do-it mindset.
Feel the pain; make a change. Continually work on your recovery. Addiction did not come overnight and so healing does not come immediately either.
Once you start feeling better from the change, your soul hungers to have your human needs met: certainty, importance, caring, growth, and contribution.
Find a therapists to help you discover those needs.
Go to a support-group meeting, perhaps, a 12-step program.
Thank you,
Dale Criswell
Reference
Carnes, P. (1991). Don’t call it love; recovery from sexual addiction. p.p. 14 & 15. New York; NY: Bantam Books. Retrieved from https://books.google.com/books/about/Don_t_Call_It_Love.html?id=LT2W2OzZXo8C.
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