Yes, and no!
Yes, it is a mental disorder, since as we've discussed here, it is correlated to ADHD, depression, etc.
And no, it isn't just a pure mental disorder that is why you see me posting things like prayers and theological discussions.
To put it in the realm of pure mental disorder, we deny the capacity of human beings to sin.
To put it in the realm of pure spiritual problem, we deny man's composition of a body, who is not just a soul.
We are attacking both, and is pushing for an integrated approach here.
We cannot attack its psychological aspects alone separated from its theological aspects. Such lone attack, the former or the latter, invites failure even in its initial phase.
Compared to depression which isn't a sin per se, or to schizophrenia which has a physical or organic cause that needs psychiatric medication, sexual addiction is itself a sin which doesn't have an immediate physical cause like schizophrenia that is nearly 80% of risk down to genes.
If depression is due to one's becoming an alcoholic due to habitual drinking, then drinking is what is sinful not depression itself. It's not a sin to inherit a tendency to develop schizophrenia. We can't categorize easily sexual addiction like the two above, since it's already like drinking out of moderation and is a sin in itself. And yet we are attacking it like how we attack depression, etc. believing it to be of help and an ease in living chastity as correlational studies show. It goes on to say that a sin's primary solution is spiritual like confession, prayers, the grace of God, etc. And though the psychological solutions we propose here are secondary, they do have that sense of accountability if for instance a coffee drank at night caused one to stay awake unnecessarily that provoked watching porn that triggered the relapse.
If I am, as a sexual addict, mentally ill, why do I behave normally? We've pointed out before that it seems sexual addiction's bad effect comes after like how we've discussed self-injected delution. But you still maintain freedom through your continuous chastity works though not fully. It matters to us that spiritual graces are the ones to forgive and heal the sin(primarily) of sexual addiction. And yet confession isn't just a spiritual thing as there are so many psychological findings that the practice of confession confers psychological health. Though let us clarify that the sacrament of confession's effect goes beyond what is merely psychological up to the unseen graces it confers on it's practitioners.
Oh Blessed Virgin Mother, have mercy on us!
Yes, it is a mental disorder, since as we've discussed here, it is correlated to ADHD, depression, etc.
And no, it isn't just a pure mental disorder that is why you see me posting things like prayers and theological discussions.
To put it in the realm of pure mental disorder, we deny the capacity of human beings to sin.
To put it in the realm of pure spiritual problem, we deny man's composition of a body, who is not just a soul.
We are attacking both, and is pushing for an integrated approach here.
We cannot attack its psychological aspects alone separated from its theological aspects. Such lone attack, the former or the latter, invites failure even in its initial phase.
Compared to depression which isn't a sin per se, or to schizophrenia which has a physical or organic cause that needs psychiatric medication, sexual addiction is itself a sin which doesn't have an immediate physical cause like schizophrenia that is nearly 80% of risk down to genes.
If depression is due to one's becoming an alcoholic due to habitual drinking, then drinking is what is sinful not depression itself. It's not a sin to inherit a tendency to develop schizophrenia. We can't categorize easily sexual addiction like the two above, since it's already like drinking out of moderation and is a sin in itself. And yet we are attacking it like how we attack depression, etc. believing it to be of help and an ease in living chastity as correlational studies show. It goes on to say that a sin's primary solution is spiritual like confession, prayers, the grace of God, etc. And though the psychological solutions we propose here are secondary, they do have that sense of accountability if for instance a coffee drank at night caused one to stay awake unnecessarily that provoked watching porn that triggered the relapse.
If I am, as a sexual addict, mentally ill, why do I behave normally? We've pointed out before that it seems sexual addiction's bad effect comes after like how we've discussed self-injected delution. But you still maintain freedom through your continuous chastity works though not fully. It matters to us that spiritual graces are the ones to forgive and heal the sin(primarily) of sexual addiction. And yet confession isn't just a spiritual thing as there are so many psychological findings that the practice of confession confers psychological health. Though let us clarify that the sacrament of confession's effect goes beyond what is merely psychological up to the unseen graces it confers on it's practitioners.
Oh Blessed Virgin Mother, have mercy on us!
