(CNN) – While acknowledging the details of the allegations against even individuals in areas of the Atlanta area, he resurrected the controversial concept of sex addiction.
The local police told reporters that the suspect, Robert Aaron Long, “had signs that he had some problems, potentially sexual addiction, and that he had frequented some of his places in the past.” The authorities also informed that Long had recently expelled from the case of his family debated his sex addiction, which includes pornography with regularity during hours. Antiguos companions of housing of the Long Dijeron Rehabilitation Center who receive treatment for sexual addiction, as well as for being upset.
Because of the term of social acceptance of the term – and the employer of claims that it advertises as the motive of its criminals -, the addition to sex is not an accepted psychiatric diagnosis.
It is said that the “standing in terms of coma in addition” is determined by the conditions, the behaviors or the activities desecrated receptors and cerebral responses, says Dr. Ziv Cohen, forensic psychiatrist and clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at Columbia University. There was a neurobiological evidence of addiction, in which the investigators observed people who played (alcohol) drugs or alcohol, but generally and people who identified themselves as sex addicts or pornography.
For this reason, the addition to sex has been pre-emptively reviewed for inclusion in the Manual Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Psychiatric Disorders (DSM) of the Association of Psychiatric Psychiatry (APA, by its guidelines in English) greetings as a guide authorized for the diagnosis of mental disorders. People receive treatment and support for this problem, but only experts have other factors to consider.
Other reasons why ‘sex addiction’ is not an addiction
The symptoms of the addictions include “deficient control over behavior, deterrence in the social aspect, … ponerse in pain to get rid of the clear physical risks and another type for the individual, and the development of, in the case of the sustancias, tolerancia y abstinencia », statement from dr. Paul Appelbaum, President of the DSM’s Directive Commission on the APA Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University in New York City.
Psychiatrists also tend to characterize levels of sexuality as pathological.
“Steady psychiatry, for many years, considered homosexuality to be a psychiatric illness,” Cohen said. “I have a legacy of it, a legacy of very pain.”
On the other hand, there are many people “who have a healthy sexuality and are guilty of averaging over normal sexuality,” Cohen said. “There is a preoccupation with the fact that there are some who have called it ‘sex addiction’, many people who actually do not think they should think about their sexuality, their sexual impulses, or their salutations.”
Además, it is difficult to say “where to draw the line between divisive and unplayable sexual impulses”, Cohen said. The sexual impulses that violate the rights of other persons are easy to classify as pathological. “But if it is simply stated that you have a large sexual impulse, that you live to see a lot of pornography or pay for sex, it is more difficult to label intrinsically as pathological because it does not involve violating the rights of women”.
Diagnose and treat problems related to sex
The clinical legitimacy of sex addiction does not mean, without embarrassment, that the personal problems of people with sex are not real. Cerebral activity is not the only form in which mental health professionals identify and diagnose transgender people. It should also be considered whether the symptoms of a person interfere with the ability to function in various aspects of life.
Defenders treat sex addiction as a legitimate “dirian,” we have subjective anguish and functional behavior in people with sex addiction, and as such we need to be diagnostic, “Cohen commented. “There are doctors who treat sex addiction, although there is no official diagnosis. If so, you can look a little confused ».
Anonieme seksverslaafdes is a 12-step recovery program that does not proportion scientific experience or clinic and, for that matter, does not engage in clinical discussions “about whether sex addiction is an addiction or not”, indicating Phillip, manager of the program of public information in the International Service Organization of SAA, Inc., in Houston. “We can say, without embarrassment, from our experience, that we can definitely say that for us, the addiction to sex exists.”
What appears to be an addiction to sexual intercourse is hypersexuality, that sometimes there is a syndrome of thrush bipolar or thrush in the control of impulses, Cohen said.
“In the bipolar tower, when you have a manic episode, you tend to be very hyperactive, you have a lot of energy, you have very hedonistic feelings, you look for places”, he explained. “Maniacs on the menu end up being very sexually impulsive.”
People who have normal sexual impulses but are not satisfied with sexual activities and, therefore, can not detain, exhibit compulsive sexual behaviors, which can be in the spectrum of obsessive-compulsive disorder, Cohen said.
The most solid factor in identifying as a sex addict comes from a religious conservator “who promotes very rigid, heteronormative and centered rules on sexuality monogamy,” said David J. Ley, clinical psychologist and author of the book ‘ the addiction to sex ‘.
“Through world sex in which we live, these people … are not prepared to handle these sexual desires that surgen in them and the opportunity of persecutors. And so it’s hard to come by these sexual desires ».
Overcoming these illnesses can make the sentiments more powerful and more difficult to avoid, including Ley, including not being elevated to the level of a mental tornado.
“People suffer from these problems,” Ley said. “But it’s really important for us to understand what luchan is against you and why some people luchan and others do not, in order for us to help these people.”
Saeed Ahmed, Eliott C. McLaughlin, Casey Tolan and Amanda Watts of CNN contribute to an esta historia.