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TM99

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5. A single study of 20 people

Reply to PoliticAverse (Reply #1)

Wed Jul 24, 2013, 01:15 AM

Jul 2013

is now all that is needed to include a new 'diagnosis' in the DSM?

This is one of the main reasons why I no longer use it.

Compulsions are compulsions. Making a new 'addiction' will be abused, but hey it will be good business for the addiction industry. I have worked in one of the largest and most expensive treatment centers in the US. There is a LOT of money to be made for the board and share-holders as long as addictions are not curable and new ones are 'created'.

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just because it's bound to be talked about...sex addiction isn't in the DSM-5 [View all] HereSince1628 Jul 2013 OP

NY Magazine article on the issue... PoliticAverse Jul 2013 #1

Yes HereSince1628 Jul 2013 #2

A single study of 20 people TM99 Jul 2013 #5

Imo, it falls in the spectrum of other compulsive disorders cbayer Jul 2013 #3

I think discussion of hypersexuality is complicated HereSince1628 Jul 2013 #6

I agree that it is complicated. cbayer Jul 2013 #7

I can understand why the DSM-5 doesn't have that as a seperate heading . olddots Jul 2013 #4