Basically I knew when all I couldn't stop thinking about was sex, porn, etc. My life revolved around it & I wanted to just devour myself up in that. I would spend hours devoted to that only & I'd lost out on social opportunities, family stuff, even school related activities. It becomes a part of you, a negative part of you. It's like a different person that you don't want to be associated with. Some people have no problem w/it & talk about sex & stuff all the time. But for us addicts, we try whatever we can in order to HIDE it & to keep it on the backburner. If you need to talk, just message me. Good luck!

~Chanel~

Believe it or not I spent over 30 years not even realising that there was such a thing as sex addiction.  I knew there was something wrong with me but I just thought that I was a particularly undisciplined and perverse person and hid it as best as I could.  I tried everything, cutting off from my sexuality, being celibate, avoiding men, reading every self help book I could.  But inside my head the fantasies and obsessions continued and I felt like I was another person inside to the one that everyone else saw. But it was having an affair that finally convinced me that there was something wrong because although I realised it was wrong there was no way I could stop and I didn't feel in the slightest bit guilty.

Thankfully I am in recovery now. Cara

im new here, and trying this out, but i know ive been an addict. i started masturbation 4 years ago. and its ben unstopable ever sense. i need help. i need someone who knows what to do.