Masturbation is a natural sexual act. However, when masturbation is used frequently as a self-medicating tool to enhance your mood, it can quickly become a compulsion. In basic terms, masturbation addiction is a compulsive need to masturbate. The addict loses the power to choose when and where to masturbate. This loss of choice and power is the basis of any sex addiction.
The question is how much is too much?
- Are you in control of when and where you masturbate?
- Are you troubled by how many times you need to masturbate?
- Are you often late to work because you have to masturbate in the morning?
- Do you take long lunch breaks and masturbate in your car?
- Do you have to masturbate at work?
- Do you have to masturbate before an important meeting or event?
- Has the need to masturbate increased substantially in the past six months?
- Have you had injuries due to excessive masturbation?
- Do you have to masturbate?
- Are there times when you choose to masturbate even though you are running late, have an injury or may be discovered and embarrassed?
- Do you use masturbation as a coping mechanism for stress, anxiety or difficult emotions?
- Is masturbating affecting sexual relations with your partner?
- Are you sometimes afraid that you would be unable to perform in actual sexual relations because of frequent masturbation?
- Are you sometimes nervous about being able to achieve and maintain an erection with your partner?
- Do you avoid sexual intimacy with a partner in favor of masturbation?
- Is your intimate relationship suffering because of masturbation?
- Are you not very interested in pleasuring your partner any more?
- Do you sometimes continue to masturbate even though there seems to be no pleasure?
- Do you sometimes worry that you may be looking at pornography excessively?
- Do you have a ritual around pornography and masturbation?
If you have answered “Yes” to several of these questions, you may have a problem with compulsive masturbation. Help is available! Don’t minimize or deny the issue. Get help from a qualified therapist who has knowledge and experience in Sex Addiction Treatment.
About Rochna:
Rochna Hazra is trained in Marriage and Family Therapy at Virginia Tech. She includes the emotional, psychological, spiritual and family aspects of a person in her work. Rochna has been trained by Dr. Pat Carnes, a pioneer in the field of Sex Addiction.
Rochna is also a Certified Advanced Relapse Prevention Specialist and trained in Sex Addiction and Mindfulness-based Therapy and Relapse Prevention.
Originally from India, she combines the Eastern traditions of mindfulness, non-judgment and a holistic approach to healing with the Western approach of realism and solution-focused action.
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