Jim, a 37-year-old male client, married with two young children but currently separated from his wife, recently entered sex addiction treatment with the following concerns:
I started therapy a few years ago, ostensibly to deal with my anger. But the real reason I sought help, unknown to my wife, was that I literally could not stop myself from seeing prostitutes and sensual massage workers. Over the preceding two years I’d had hundreds of encounters with sex workers, some of them unsafe, which left me depressed, self-hating, and very angry. I engaged in a lot of this sexual behavior before my marriage, too, but once I met my wife the whole thing seemed to go away. For a while. But then it started up again, and I just couldn’t control it.
[For more of this story, written by Robert Weiss, go to https://www.psychologytoday.co...-addiction-therapist]
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