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 […]
Reasons Why People Become Addicted to Sex and Pornography – 2. Relationships
Relationships are one of the most pervasive causal factors underlying the dependent use of sex and pornography. More specifically, how people respond psychologocally and behave in the relationship context, are high on the list of reasons to be addicted. How individuals respond within a relationship is the key here, not the quality of the relationship […]
What men do instead of talking.
Too many of my clients who come to me for sex addiction and porn addiction treatment do so because they can’t talk. They can’t talk to their partners, friends, family members or professionals who are trained to listen about the things that are bothering them. The result? Surprise!…they turn to escape-like behaviours to ward off […]
You Don’t Have To Be a Dog!
A renowned behavioural scientist taught dogs to salivate at the sound of a bell. Pavlov discovered ‘classical conditioning’, a process by which our brains can be automated to respond to certain stimulii. In these situations the link between stimulus and response becomes so automatic, it slips out of conscious awareness – perhaps into something sometimes […]