SHOWNOTES FOR EPISODE 019
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Mark Lassar is one of the current authorities on sexual addiction. In his book Faithful and True he gives us five characteristics of addictive behavior. I’ve listed characterisitics are in the shownotes on the website www.104podcast.com
1. REPETITIVE – Addictive behaviors happen on a regular basis. They may not happen everyday, but is your behavior something you keep coming back to over and over again. You could keep coming back to the same Internet clicking, the same channel, the same YouTube searching. It could be a relationship that you keep coming back to or a pattern of girls that you keep hooking up with. Repetitive.
2. DEGENERATIVE – An addictive behavior intensifies over time and gets worse. You need more of the behavior to satisfy you and to achieve the same effect. You need more for the same high, so you get deeper and your behavior becomes more risky. You degenerate.
3. UNMANAGEABLE – An addictive behavior is something you’re powerless against. It’s out of control. You want to quit, but you can’t. You quit 55 times and come back that 56th time. You keep doing the things you don’t want to do.
4. MEDICATIVE – We use addictive behaviors to alter our mood. Bring us up or bring us down. We use the behavior to escape pain or escape reality. We might be bored, so we act out. We can’t sleep, so we act out. We are lonely, so we act out. Maybe our life sucks so we go to our addictive behavior to make us feel better.
5. DESTRUCTIVE – We are seeing the consequences of this behavior in our life. Our work life suffers. Our marriage suffers. Our spiritual life suffers. We may get a disease. We may rack up thousands in credit card debt. Addictive behaviors always plunge us into destruction.
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