The term “gateway drug” has been around for several decades. Generally, we have thought about gateway drugs as cigarettes, alcohol,…
Let’s look at an illustration of how porn addiction and denial tend to interact. Alfonso is a 35-year-old structural engineer…
By Robert Weiss, PhD, LCSW Believe it or not, denial is a much-needed survival mechanism – an evolutionary imperative that…
Written by Robert Weiss PhD, LCSW, CSAT OK, you’ve admitted that you’re an addict. You’ve apologized to your significant other,…
Pop culture calls it ‘love-crazy.’ Here’s when it’s a mental health problem. With all the confusion surrounding sex and love…
Dr. Robert Weiss is widely known for his therapeutic work and his books about addiction, in particular sex, porn, and love addiction. His latest book, Prodependence: Moving Beyond Codependency, is an extension of these efforts, focusing on the ways in which therapists (and the public) view and treat not just addicts, but spouses and family
Continued to take personal inventory, and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. Step ten is, in many ways, an ongoing version of steps four through nine. With step ten we take a quick inventory of the day or a specific situation, identify our part in any problems, and, when necessary, we self-correct and
Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. After completing your fourth step, you suddenly find yourself staring at step five. Step five is one of the simplest steps to work. However, many recovering addicts approach it with dread. And that is a perfectly understandable feeling
Sometimes people wonder if pleasurable behaviors can be addictive. Well, they can. In fact, they’re every bit as addictive as alcohol, cigarettes, cocaine, opiates, etc. And there is a great deal of research that proves this fact. For starters, and most notably, numerous studies tell us that addictive substances and addictive behaviors trigger the same