220: Rebroadcast - Getting Your Attention – Sex Addiction And Attention Deficit Disorder With Dr. John Sealy

The Addicted Mind Podcast

Duane Osterlind, LMFT

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Mental Health

4.8 • 621 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Part of the work we do to treat addiction is to work through the other preexisting conditions and environmental factors that could contribute to addictive behavior. Those who suffer from a co-morbid condition will notice that addiction recovery is much harder to treat without also addressing the other condition. Recently, we have more insight than ever before how Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) plays a role in sex addiction in particular. Today, our guest is Dr. John Sealy, who has been an advocate and forerunner in how ADD and Addiction influence one another. As we learn more and more about the treatment of ADD, we can also change how we treat sex addiction.

Dr. Sealy is passionate about ensuring that people get the help they need. He does not treat addiction as a single issue but looks at the whole patient to assess the care they need. Due to the inherent stigma and shame that many sufferers carry around Sex Addiction, it has historically been difficult for these people to receive treatment. Dr. Sealy is working to change that. We are excited to bring to you today all the latest research, methodology, and new insight that will be liberating for many in the recovery process. This will be an episode that is helpful and encouraging to those who are in recovery. Help and hope are available for you.

More to learn in this episode:

How our understanding and controversy of Sex Addiction has changed since the study was pioneered.

Understanding the diagnosis of Sexual Addiction.

The co-morbid conditions that we see playing a major role in Sex Addiction recovery.

How the unique cognitive hallmarks of ADD make it a likely co-morbid condition for addiction.

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Addicted Mind podcast. Today is episode 13. So I have a great guest today. His name is Dr. John Seeley, and he is going to talk about sex addiction and adult ADD or adult attention deficit disorder and how they kind of work together
0:24.0	in the addictive process and how treatment can really help individuals who are struggling with these
0:30.3	issues. So I've worked very closely with Dr. Seeley for the last three to four years and this is an
0:36.9	issue that really changed how I saw sex addiction
0:41.0	treatment. I'm really digging in and seeing how if someone is struggling with this comorbid issue,
0:48.2	they get the help they need. So I think this episode is going to be very useful for a lot of people in recovery.
0:57.3	Once you kind of can see how these intertwine and if it's something that you're struggling with,
1:03.0	getting a professional consultation is going to be key to getting that long-term recovery.
1:08.1	So I hope you enjoy this episode. I think it's really positive, really
1:13.4	meaningful, and it has a lot of great content. So I hope you guys enjoy. John, you want to
1:20.8	introduce yourself? Well, first of all, thank you, Duane, for having me here. It's a real
1:24.8	pleasure, and I'm excited to hopefully share some insights
1:28.5	into how this particular diagnosis, ADHD, which is attention deficit disorder with or without
1:36.0	hyperactivity. High activity may not be present. In the old days, that used to be the way it was
1:41.3	identified, but we now realize that's less the issue than the
1:45.0	inattention. But anyway, let me introduce myself. I'm just recently retired from being
1:50.5	assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at UCLA. I'm also in private practice. I was
1:56.3	the director of the Sexual Addiction Sexual Recovery Program at El Amal Hospital for about 15 to 20 years,
2:03.6	a program that Pat Carnes originally founded, and I am still following his guidelines from that day forward.
2:10.6	He eventually moved on to other venues, but we continue to respect his input. He's a true pioneer in psychology, and by that I mean somebody who's gone into an area that nobody else had before and left a tremendous imprint and import on understanding human behavior.
2:31.3	In this case, sexual addiction, which, by the way, sexual addiction may be
2:35.8	called a lot of other names, as you will know. It can be called hypersexuality, problematic
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