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HPA axis dysregulation in men with hypersexual disorder.
Abstract
Hypersexual disorder integrating pathophysiological aspects such as sexual desire deregulation, sexual addiction, impulsivity and compulsivity was suggested as a diagnosis for the DSM-5. However, little is known about the neurobiology behind this disorder. A dysregulation of the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal (HPA) axis has been shown in psychiatric disorders but has not been investigated in hypersexual disorder. The aim of this study was to investigate the function of the HPA axis in hypersexual disorder. The study includes 67 male patients with hypersexual disorder and 39 healthy male volunteers. Basal morning plasma levels of cortisol and ACTH were assessed and low dose (0.5mg) dexamethasone suppression test was performed with cortisol and ACTH measured post dexamethasone administration. Non-suppression status was defined with DST-cortisol levels ≥ 138 nmol/l. The Sexual Compulsive scale (SCS), Hypersexual disorder current assessment scale (HD:CAS), Montgomery-Åsberg Depression Scale-self rating (MADRS-S) and Childhood trauma questionnaire (CTQ), were used for assessing hypersexual behavior, depression severity and early life adversity. Patients with hypersexual disorder were significantly more often DST non-suppressors and had significantly higher DST-ACTH levels compared to healthy volunteers. The patients reported significantly more childhood trauma and depression symptoms compared to healthy volunteers. CTQ scores showed a significant negative correlation with DST-ACTH whereas SCS and HD:CAS scores showed a negative correlation with baseline cortisol in patients. The diagnosis of hypersexual disorder was significantly associated DST non-suppression and higher plasma DST-ACTH even when adjusted for childhood trauma. The results suggest HPA axis dysregulation in male patients with hypersexual disorder.
Sex Addiction US Gymnastics
How important do you think the vision of healthy sexuality is for our children?
Business Plan
North Coast Center for Healthy Sexuality and hope xp
1.1 Mission Statement
Passionately Leading Others into the Beauty of Recovery
The NCCHS mission is to become the recognized leader in its targeted market for healthy sexuality services including assessments for sex addiction, counseling, group therapy, and co occurring addiction recovery.
1.2 Services
NCCHS will render addiction treatment services to adults and children within the greater targeted community. NCCHS will also recognize revenues from ancillary services such as ongoing group therapy and government contract services as it relates to treating sex, alcohol and drug addictions.
1.3 Executive Mangement Team
NCCHS founder and CEO, Dr. Glen B. Maiden, is a 30 year marriage, family, and addiction counselor, earned a sex addiction certificate from AACC, and is a sex addiction and financial disorder professional trained by world renowned Dr. Patrick Carnes’ CSAT/CMAT treatment model.
1.4 Financial Projection
NCCHS fee schedule:
140 dollars an hour for individual treatment
150 dollars an hour for couples treatment
40 dollars an hour for group therapy
Total man hours per week: 27
1.5 Marketing Strategy
4% or 3,440 of the 86,000 people living in a 45 mile radius of NCCHS have problem sexuality. Adding the partner this means 6,880 people have addictive and coaddict behaviors.
Offering cybersex lectures and consult to non profits and businesses to promote NCCHS services.
Utilizing social media for advertising including listserv and Facebook pages.
Utilizing printed material sent to non profits and businesses.
Press releases for public speaking events.
Offering professional consult services to law enforcement.
Free online support groups
Free FMO group work
1.6 Future Strategy
NCCHS will establish centers in Washington, Astoria, Seaside, Cannon Beach, Lincoln City, Michigan, Hawaii and an online market.
1.7 Market Analysis;
NCCHS is the only healthy sexuality center on the west coast of Washington and Oregon. Cannon Beach, Seaside, and Gearhart beaches are part of the top 75 destination beaches in the world. NCCHS believes the lack of sexual health professionals and the destination reputation of the north coast beach communities will fill the void in professional sexual health therapy.
1.8 Financial Responsibility
2.0 Weekend Intensive
What you will receive: Articulate understanding of why sexuality has become unhealthy for you, a vision for intimate sexuality, assessments for sex addiction, post traumatic stress, partner survey, money obsession, a personalized plan for rebuilding relational trust, neurological rewiring, a rich support network including the top sex addiction therapists in the world, personal care, and if you wish a spiritual community of help.
3.0 Affordability
Therapy Groups
Online groups
Recovery Church
4.0 Marketing
Valentines Day…Ugh!
The day of love. Really? Do you feel the pressure? Fear? Ha.
Let’s look at the origins of V Day and you may see where the angst comes from.
“From Feb. 13 to 15, the Romans celebrated the feast of Lupercalia. The men sacrificed a goat and a dog, then whipped women with the hides of the animals (februa) they had just slain.
The Roman romantics ‘were drunk. They were naked,’ says Noel Lenski, a historian at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Young women would actually line up for the men to hit them, Lenski says. They believed this would make them fertile.
The brutal fete included a matchmaking lottery, in which young men drew the names of women from a jar. The couple would then be, um, coupled up for the duration of the festival — or longer, if the match was right.
The ancient Romans may also be responsible for the name of our modern day of love. Emperor Claudius II executed two men — both named Valentine — on Feb. 14 of different years in the 3rd century A.D.” http://www.npr.org/2011/02/14/133693152/the-dark-origins-of-valentines-day
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So now you see why red is so important on VDay. Now you also know how online dating started…in Rome. Drawing anonymous names from a jar. Then the hook up.
We live in a culture of love wired with pain, physical and emotional. Where is the richness of love? The honor. The dignity. The longevity of love?
The following video is rated PG-17. There is a scene at the end of two cartoon characters engaging in intercourse under the covers. The message however is powerful. I think you will appreciate it…unless your child or grandchild is watching with you. You may need to explain to innocent eyes what’s happening before you planned.
She left at 4:30A and they…never…spoke again. What about love, man?
Now, let’s look at the other side of the love boat.Sorry about that retro metaphor.
Millenials love throwbacks.
I do too.
A 1500 BC text states this about love, The man knew his wife and she conceived and bore a son. The word for knew is yada’, to know spiritually, cognitively, emotionally…it means intimacy. The word is similar in the Greek language, oida, meaning to know by seeing experientially.
One of the oldest words for sex in literary history is intimacy. The word sexus did not appear until the 14th century AD in latin meaning the gender distinction between cows.
Sex is intimacy. Love and sex wed the most beautiful of relationship truths. Think wholeness, completion of spirituality, honor, respect, with love.
Here is another iconic video of intimacy and love.
So, let’s pull it all together. Valentines Day is a retro Roman ritual involving sacrificing animals and whipping infertile women with bloody thongs combined with anonymous sex during a drug and alcohol fueled naked rave. Somewhere somehow we intuit this pain about modern VDay.
The best of love is intimacy. The capacity to see one’s partner, love is wholeness, respectful, loyal, beautiful.
What do you say we rethink and redo this day of love sans whips and rage?
Grateful
Gratitude:
I had a quick call with Pastor Glen the other day regarding the formation of Hope. Towards the end of the conversation Glen asked how he could pray for my wife and me; what were our current needs. I responded by saying that we were all good with no current prayer needs. I then went on to address how a few weeks back my son was watching ‘Aladdin’ where the genie grants (3) wishes. I walked into another room stumped as to what I would ask for if I was granted (3) wishes; the conclusion I arrived at is that I would give back them back. I have everything I need.
Getting into recovery was the greatest thing I have ever done. Offered $1 million or the opportunity to go through all of this again, I would easily choose the latter. Challenges faced have made me the person I am today. My hope is that everyone reaches this point. Jesus speaks to challenges as being opportunities and I could not agree more. When suffering, it was difficult to ‘rejoice’ in the challenges before me. Only after starting down the path towards recovery did I realize how lucky I was to have these challenges in my life. Rather than blaming God, I should have been thanking him.
Therefore, every day I say the following to God: I thank him for my wife and son. I thank him for everything he has done and continues to do in my life. I thank him for the challenges (but admittedly ask him to tone them down sometimes) in my life. I pray for the strength to do what is right. I pray for the strength to battle my own internal demons. I ask him to forgive my sins, which continually mount. And every day I ask God what it is I could do to best serve him.
Again, I have everything I need and am so thankful for it.
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