Hypersexual Couple? Try Dealing With This Way

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JAKARTA - Sexual relations in a marriage or domestic life are indeed one of the important things. There is something special in the bedroom that can bring you closer to your partner. However, when your partner often invites you to have sex at a time or place, even when the circumstances are not right, maybe you should be aware of the possibility that your partner is hypersexual or hypersexual.

Hypersexual or hypersex is a disorder that makes a person unable to contain the sexual desire that is felt. With the aim of fulfilling personal satisfaction, people with hypersex can cause relationship problems with their partners and other people around them.

If your partner is one of them, it is important that you recognize how to deal with a hypersexual partner below.

Help him to recognize the symptoms

Maybe when he tries to have sex with you in public, this could be a symptom of hypersexuality. So, you can help him recognize these symptoms so that he slowly becomes more alert. Launching the Mayo Clinic, Tuesday, March 1, there are six symptoms of hypersexuality, namely;

Have repetitive and intense sexual fantasies, urges, and behaviors and feel as though they are out of control. Driven to perform certain sexual behaviors, feeling the need to release the tension that is felt, but also feeling guilty or regretful afterwards. Unsuccessfully trying to reduce or control sexual fantasies, urges, or behavior. Use your hypersexual behavior as an escape from other problems, such as loneliness, depression, anxiety or stress. Continuing to engage in sexual behavior when it has serious consequences such as the potential to acquire or give another person a sexually transmitted infection, loss of an important relationship, problems at work, financial problems, or legal problems. It is difficult to build and maintain healthy and stable relationships. Help him to relax

Hypersex experienced by a partner may be a result of trauma or sexual violence that he has experienced before. So it could be, his hypersex disorder is triggered when he is stressed. For that, you can help him relax, invite him to be more open to you.

Some of the causes of hypersexuality that need to be known are;

Imbalance of natural chemicals in the brain. Certain chemicals in the brain (neurotransmitters) such as serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine help regulate mood. The imbalance of these three chemicals can be the cause of hypersexual behavior. Changes in brain pathways. Hypersexuality is an addiction that, over time, can cause changes in the brain's neural circuits, especially in the brain's strengthening centers. As with other addictions, more intense sexual content and stimulation is usually required from time to time for satisfaction or relief. Conditions that affect the brain. Certain diseases or health problems, such as epilepsy and dementia, can cause damage to parts of the brain that affect sexual behavior. In addition, treatment of Parkinson's disease with some dopamine agonist drugs can cause a person to become hypersexual. Communicate

How to deal with a hypersex partner can also be done honestly and communicate. You have to explain to him how the impact of hypersexual partner on you personally, then together invite him to recognize what hypersexuality is and its symptoms.

Be brave, and communicate with each other because this relationship can be maintained, when you communicate with each other.

Do sex therapy

If you and your partner feel you need professional help, try sex therapy. Hypersexuality is linked to bipolar disorder, so both you and your partner need therapy with someone who focuses on bipolar and hypersexual disorders to experience the benefits.