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A Woman Wants Help With Sex Addiction Relapses

Dr. Doug Weiss - 11/7/2007

I'm 19 and I used to masturbate 3 to 4 times a week. I am now down to about once or twice every 2 weeks. Those are my relapses. I want to stop completely. I am very religious and I want to make God happy. I wanted to know if there is any type of medicine i can take to reduce my hormones, most of the time I relapse because of them. I know that men can take salt peter but is there anything women can take? I am not having children so infertility isn't an issue. Are there things I can do, I try to distract myself, but I get sore and I give in because it is extremely uncomfortable. Afterwards I feel hopeless. I am making good progress and I have pinpointed two triggers that set me off. One being my hormones, the other is if I get depressed after a bad day. Then sometimes I do it after an awesome day. I'm working on those. I just need advise on the hormones. I wish I could have my ovaries taken out but they won't, they won't eve tie my tubes so I won't get pregnant! Thank you for your time.

What you want to do is get accountable to another woman on a daily basis. You need a way to process your more intense feelings that you mentioned such as your very up or very depressed days. There are a few strong emotions that seem to be difficult for some to manage. As far as hormones, talk to your doctor about this.

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