Tag Archives: Escalation

  • 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...
  • Tolerance and Escalation
    Sunday, February 25th, 2024

    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
    Wednesday, January 17th, 2024

    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...
  • 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?”...
  • Why Do Tolerance and Escalation Develop?
    Friday, October 2nd, 2020

    Why 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...
  • Sympathetic Arousal, Tolerance, and Escalation
    Friday, September 4th, 2020

    Sympathetic Arousal, Tolerance, and Escalation

    David Fawcett PhD, LCSW Methamphetamine, which elicits the release of nearly 14 times more dopamine than an orgasm, acts as a super-stimulant that quickly “hijacks” the reward circuitry of...