David Duchovny's sex disorder likened to alcoholism.
Here's the deal. I just read this article
I admire the fact that he admitted his problem and is getting help. even after stating this:
"I'm not a sex addict," Duchovny told Playgirl magazine in a 1997 interview. "I have never been to those meetings. It's hurtful to my family and if I was involved with a woman in a monogamous relationship, it would be hurtful to her."
DENIAL. First sign that something is wrong. Shame. Hiding.
The ...ISM's:
Often likened to alcoholism, drug addiction or gambling, sex addiction is a form of compulsive behavior which is sending growing numbers of people into therapy but which is not formally recognized as a "diagnosable disorder" by the American Psychiatric Association...."There are a lot of people who are critical of the concept because we live in a society that tends to over medicalize and which makes every behavior, which deviates from the norm, an addiction or a disorder," Eichel said. (Dr. Steve Eichel, an addiction specialist who works in Delaware)
LOVE is still the answer. Love with guidelines. (see bottom of post)
WHAT'S THE NORM? Let's review history. Back to the garden. Back to the stone commandments. The 10 Commandments cover anything, anyone can come up with to be classified as an addiction.
The Answers:
And God spoke all these words, saying: 'I am the LORD your God…
- ONE: You shall have no other gods before Me.
- TWO: You shall not make for yourself a carved image--any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
- THREE: You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain.
- FOUR: Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
- FIVE: Honor your father and your mother.
- SIX: You shall not murder.
- SEVEN: You shall not commit adultery.
- EIGHT: You shall not steal.
- NINE: You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
- TEN: You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's.
Jesus summed it up:
"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?" Jesus replied: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments" (Matthew 22:36-40)
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