Addiction: Where it comes from and how it can be treated.
Esteem Therapy Yorkshire is a specialist sex and porn addiction counselling service in West Yorkshire and the majority of our clients are receiving assessment, support and treatment for this. Sex and porn addiction can include excessively indulging in one or a combination of some of the following: Porn – on/off-line images and film On-line dating […]
About Porn Addiction
6% of children aged 15 years or younger had accessed an adult website 5% of visitors to such sites had been under-18 One website alone had been visited by 112,000 boys in the UK aged between 12 and 17-years-old Of the wider population, 23% of those who had used the net over the month had […]
Porn Revenge. The Dangers of Texting and Other Social Media.
Don’t put yourself in this position where you risk your career, relationships, friendships and economic well-being. Your whole future might be at stake – so much so that these behaviours are too risky to even go near – unless you, like the unfortunate individuals below, experience uncontrollable compulsions and addictive tendencies. Recent news stories caught […]
The Effect of Porn and Sex Addiction on Relationships
The Effect of Porn and Sex Addiction on Relationships A high number of clients seek help for their compulsive porn and sex-related behaviours because their relationship with their partner is put at risk. Until their partners say that they are unhappy or worse, ready to leave, because of the behaviours, many addicts do not even […]
Impact of discovering a partner is a porn and sex addict.
When partners discover their significant other is possibly a sex addict or porn addict an explosion happens. Like uncovering an affair they are likely to feel very angry, shocked, numbed and confused. These feelings will often be overwhelming and the aggrieved partner will be left swinging from one intense emotion to another. It is common, natural […]
Dangers of On-line Sex Dating Can Be Catastrophic
The harmful consequences of sexual addictions are numerous and serious; marriage break-up, loss of jobs and income, financial costs, mental health and well-being are common consequences that inevitably occur when addicts can’t cover their tracks, escalate out of control or just get discovered by chance. Now the frequent use of on-line channels to seek out […]
One of the chilling consequences of porn and sex addiction
Using porn sites, webcams, chatrooms and sexting can lead to ‘porn revenge’ when a previous ‘friend’ decides to get back at you. Don’t put yourself in this position where you risk your career, relationships, friendships and economic well-being. Recent news stories caught our eye here at Esteem Therapy Yorkshire. A recent storyline brings home the […]
Six Simple Ways To Build Bullet-Proof Commitment to Ending Your Sex or Porn Addicton
Commitment to change is the most critical element of being successful in achieving full recovery from addictive behaviours. Steely determination, willpower and/or partner ultimatums can go a long way but without personal commitment to the cause you may lack the emotional and psychological momentum to behave differently when it counts. Common to all addictions is the all-powerful […]
Bad Flow Bad, Good Flow Good – This Switch will Instantly Help Sex Addicts
FLOW experiences Flow is a word used to describe an optimal or peak experience. If you can master regular use of good flow experiences then you will have one of the most potent weapons against addictive behaviours on your side. By achieving flow experiences you will boost your feel-good neuro-chemicals so that negative feeling states are less […]
Sex Helps to Manage Anxiety
But…its not the right way to do it! What do I mean? If you-experience one or several of the many forms of anxiety such as social anxiety or general anxiety then you may have developed a coping mechanism. This might be compulsive sex or porn use which helps to relieve anxiety through the production of […]