Hypersexual Disorder and DSM-5
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fifth edition (DSM-5) is set to be published officially in May, 2013. The DSM is the book which defines and describes psychiatric diagnoses. The diagnoses are currently being worked out prior to publication- you can learn more at DSM5.org There have been multiple proposed changes and new diagnoses, and one new diagnoses that has been proposed to be included by the American Psychiatric Association is Hypersexual Disorder (as opposed to having a "Sexual Addiction" or "Sex Addict").
What is Hypersexual Disorder?The hypersexual disorder would be diagnosed by "recurrent and intense sexual fantasies, sexual urges, and sexual behavior..." which may be characterized by "A great deal of time is consumed by sexual fantasies and urges, and by planning for and engaging in sexual behavior;" "Repetitively engaging in these sexual fantasies, urges, and behavior in response to dysphoric mood states (e.g., anxiety, depression, boredom, irritability);" "Repetitively engaging in sexual fantasies, urges, and behavior in response to stressful life events; "Repetitive but unsuccessful efforts to control or significantly reduce these sexual fantasies, urges, and behavior;" "Repetitively engaging in sexual behavior while disregarding the risk for physical or emotional harm to self or others."You can view the full criteria and support for hypersexual disorder at DSM5.org | |
| Is Hypersexual Disorder Sex Addiction? | The DSM-5 task force chose to not label this phenomenon a behavioral addiction (such as pathological gambling). However, one common expression of these types of behaviors is "sexual addiction," and these types of behaviors were previously not well recognized by the DSM-IV-TR and the proposal is to now have a diagnostic label in DSM-5 (Hypersexual Disorder).
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[Exs: ChronicDepressiveDisorder.com, TemperDysregulation.com, MixedAnxietyDepression.com, Non-suicidalselfinjury.com, neurocognitivedisorders.com, mildintellectualdisability.com (no longer Mental Retardation)]
Professionals and patients have already started going online to learn about these new proposals which will be officially published in May, 2013. They will have to learn about the new Chronic Depression diagnosis (which is replacing dysthymic disorder and the chronic form of Major Depressive Disorder). They will need to learn about Temper Dysregulation Disorder with Dysphoria which is a category intended to reduce Bipolar diagnoses in children (since they would be diagnosed with Temper Dysregulation instead). And given the reports about what the bulk of bandwidth use on the internet goes to, its possible some people may be interested in searching for this new "Hypersexual Disorder" diagnosis (perhaps some of the same people who use up all that bandwidth).
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