Tag Archives: Escalation

  • Addiction Consequences Build Over Time
    Saturday, May 24th, 2025

    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...
  • Tolerance and Escalation
    Tuesday, February 25th, 2025

    Tolerance and Escalation

    We cannot turn back time and make a new start, but we can start from now and create a new ending. Nearly all sex and porn addicts experience tolerance...
  • Tolerance and Escalation
    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...
  • Tolerance and Escalation
    Tuesday, December 10th, 2024

    Tolerance 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...
  • Porn Escalation: Why Does This Happen?
    Wednesday, March 20th, 2024

    Porn 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...
  • What Are Tolerance and Escalation?
    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...
  • Problem Porn Use: Tolerance and Escalation
    Monday, October 11th, 2021

    Problem 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?”...