On November 14, a 20-year-old woman named Lanah Burkhardt appeared before the school board of the Conroe Independent School District in Texas. Burkhardt told the board that, when she was 11, she read a Scholastic book that introduced her to "a single kiss." According to Burkhardt, her exposure to this Scholastic book was directly responsible for her developing a debilitating addiction to pornography.
  • Telorand@reddthat.com
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    11 months ago

    The diagnosis in DSM-V are the consensus of professionals. Diagnosis appear in it once there’s sufficient clinical evidence of the <>, and the members come to a consensus.

    I think it’s more accurate to say it’s a consensus, not the consensus. The consensus necessarily does and should change over time, and the DSM-V is a decade old.

    Religious trauma would be more correctly seen as a cause of PTSD of CPTSD, rather than a distinct diagnosis of it’s own…

    According to you and maybe the DSM, not necessarily the consensus of psychologists. It’s not a decided issue whether it should be a diagnosis of its own or not.

    Ultimately, maybe the woman in the article does have an addiction. Maybe she masturbates so much, she can’t function as an adult. I don’t know, but I know I’ve read a few studies, and they never used “porn addiction” (except to critique the notion), but they did use “sexual addiction.”

    Here’s one, and the relevant quote: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&amp;as_sdt=0%2C44&amp;q=porn+addiction&amp;btnG=#d=gs_qabs&amp;t=1701288070891&amp;u=%23p%3DNjIPuUqk95kJ

    However, despite all efforts, we are still unable to profile when engaging in this behavior becomes pathological. Common problems include: sample bias, the search for diagnostic instrumentals, opposing approximations to the matter, and the fact that this entity may be encompassed inside a greater pathology (i.e., sex addiction) that may present itself with very diverse symptomatology.