"Men always used to just be a distraction," says recovering sex and love addict Alice*, 32. "I used sex, love and romance to medicate uncomfortable feelings like guilt, stress, or fear - and that constant, obsessive search for male comfort took over my life. If I didn't have a sexual partner, I felt like I was staring into a black abyss."
This is a companion discussion topic for the original article at https://patient.info/news-and-features/what-its-like-to-be-a-recovering-sex-addict