Articles About Addiction, Therapy & More
8 Celebrity Sex Addicts
Perhaps ironically, sex addiction is something that happens 'behind closed doors' in western society. We find it far easier to speak freely about alcoholism or drug addiction than we do sex addiction, and so create a cultural impression that sex addiction is less...
Why Your Inner Caveman Makes You Masturbate
The male brain evolved in a hunter-gatherer context but now lives in a technological world. Our brains have evolved to take advantage of opportunities to mate but cannot differentiate between opportunities we see on a screen and the ones that occur in real life. Due...
Understanding and Dealing With Internet Sex Addiction
The internet makes accessing sexually explicit content and conversation easier to access and keep discreet than it ever has been before. Pornography and Cybersex addiction are arguably the two most prevalent forms of sexual addiction in the modern age, but are so easy...
The 5 Stages of the Sexual Addiction Cycle, and How To Break It.
Sex addicts are stuck in a cycle. Their addiction is defined by a seemingly endless pattern that leads them again and again to doing the same empty things, feeling the same empty feelings, and thinking the same empty thoughts. Despite how hopeless escaping from that...
How Tinder is Designed to Control Your Mind
Most are not aware that the popular dating app Tinder has been designed very intentionally to keep its users swiping. Taking advantage of powerful cognitive mechanisms, the app hooks it's users, planting a seed in their mind that drives them to always come back to the...
Getting Help With Infidelity in Ottawa
If you've ever had a significant other cheat on you, you understand the hurricane of confusion and emotions that can result. We invest so much of our lives and identities into our relationships, and when we find out they are not what we thought they were, it can feel...
The Benefits Of Group Therapy For Ottawa Sex Addiction
So many sex addicts, wrapped up in feelings of shame, isolate their nature from others. They make their problems unknown to the world, and thus unknown to eachother. Sexual addictions are considerably more common than most would believe, but because they are hidden...
Which Type Of Ottawa Therapy Is Best For You?
Individual therapy, group therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, psychoanalytic therapy; there are so many variants and sub-variants of therapy that finding the one that is right for you can be a daunting and intimidating process. Leave choosing the best one for you...
Getting Help For A Pornography Addiction in Ottawa
An addiction to pornography is a particularly insidious form of sexual addiction. Because it takes place alone and behind closed doors, its a comparatively easy problem to hide. Coming forward about a pornography problem, especially a stranger, is a difficult step...
Helping Sex Addicted Loved Ones
When someone you know is struggling with Sex Addiction, or any addiction for that matter, they’re likely very accomplished at hiding their problem. They could be months or years deep into their addiction and have it so incorporated into their daily life that they...
The Importance Of Accountability
Recovery requires a team effort! It cannot be done by one's own volition alone. If it could then the person would not have been coming to therapy as they would have solved it on their own. Had that been the case then it was likely not an addiction or compulsion and/or...
12 Step Groups
At Whitestone Clinic we encourage clients to participate in TWELVE STEP groups. We consider our therapy approach as 12 step compatible. In anonymous 12 step groups like the original Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), or similar ones like Narcotics Anonymous (NA), CoDependents...
The Porn Industry
There has always been an underground economy and links to organized crime in the pornography industry. It is interesting to see the developments of this industry in the internet age. In a recent National Post article published October 24th, 2014,...
