Tag Archives: Tolerance

  • 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...
  • 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?”...
  • The Brain’s Reward Circuitry
    Friday, December 18th, 2020

    The Brain’s Reward Circuitry

    Dr. David Fawcett Addictive processes involve several regions of the brain, but most are focused on a set of structures deep in the midbrain called the reward circuitry (also...
  • 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...