Friday, January 17th, 2025
Tolerance and Escalation
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of your addiction. Addicts of all types typically experience an increasing tolerance to the...
Tag Archives: Escalation
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Tuesday, December 10th, 2024Tolerance and Escalation
We can’t discover new lands without losing sight of the shore. If you’re struggling to understand how sex and porn addiction escalate, consider heroin addiction as an analogy. Nobody... -
Friday, May 24th, 2024
Addiction Consequences Build Over Time
Acceptance of addiction is the first step toward overcoming its consequences. Usually, sex and porn addiction build slowly over time. This makes it difficult to clearly see the ways... -
Wednesday, March 20th, 2024Porn Escalation: Why Does This Happen?
Dr. Robert Weiss LCSW, CSAT Most porn users, even those who are not addicted, find that their use of porn escalates over time. They spend more time online looking... -
Tuesday, September 5th, 2023
What Are Tolerance and Escalation?
Dr. David Fawcett In the most recent edition of its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (the DSM-5), the American Psychiatric Association states that Substance Use Disorder (Alcoholism... -
Friday, January 14th, 2022Pornography Addiction: Understanding Tolerance and Escalation
Robert Weiss PhD, LCSW, CSAT Internet pornography is, without question, a super-stimulant. What I mean by that is that pornography is not a naturally occurring phenomenon, and its ability... -
Monday, October 11th, 2021Problem Porn Use: Tolerance and Escalation
Robert Weiss PhD, LCSW, CSAT One of the questions most commonly asked by individuals who struggle with pornography is: “Why is it so hard to quit and stay quit?”... -
Friday, February 19th, 2021Pairing Substances with Sex and How This Affects the Brain
Dr. David Fawcett All addictive processes, whether with substances or behaviors, affect the brain in the same basic way: They impact the flow of various neurochemicals in order to... -
Friday, October 2nd, 2020Why Do Tolerance and Escalation Develop?
David Fawcett PhD, LCSW As stated in my previous post, tolerance and escalation are common signs of addiction. Tolerance occurs when the body requires increasingly larger or more potent...