Golf superstar Tiger Woods suffers from sex addiction disease after the news was announced, the reporter visited from a number of hospitals, Wuhan also has a similar sex addiction patients, just can not be counted on the data of the disease. Typical disease: “Last July, the hospital came to a special couple.” Hubei Zhongshan Hospital, director of the mental health department Huang Hua introduced the day before yesterday, the husband Li Pi (a pseudonym) 48 years old, is a security guard, his wife Qu Ruo (a pseudonym) 45 years old, housewife. Qu Ruo said, the couple’s life before the age of 40 is quite sweet, 40 years old, her husband’s demand for conjugal life suddenly became strong, which makes her intolerable, especially after last year’s Spring Festival, her husband and her in the same room, but also shouted his sister, Qu Zhi (a pseudonym)’s name, and continued to shout for two or three months. One day in May last year, Qu Zhi with his parents to play at his sister’s home, Li Pi suddenly in front of the face of the crowd, holding his sister-in-law, shocked family members in time to stop the party did not make a big mistake. Li said he often guilt, remorse and shame afterward, but just can not self-control, very painful. Huang Hua said, although Li Pi is not considered a psychiatric patient, but the condition belongs to mental problems in the impulse control disorder, if in accordance with the definition of foreign experts on sex addiction: “a whole day to lock themselves in the room, spend most of the time browsing pornographic Web sites, did not try to express their sexuality through other channels of the person; or a person who knows their own needs for sex has seriously affected their work, economic ability and relationships with family and partners, but is unable to extricate himself from it, is considered to be suffering from sex addiction.” So Lippe must be a sex addict. Expert interpretation: “sex addiction” is what? Hu Yiwen, deputy chief physician of the mental health department of WUST Hospital, said a symptom lasts three months to six months or more can be diagnosed as “addiction”, sexual addiction and Internet addiction, drug addiction, tobacco addiction, alcohol addiction, once the addiction can not be satisfied, will show uncomfortable, decreased energy, anxiety, depression, insomnia and other symptoms, and even suicidal tendencies in severe cases. Severe cases even have suicidal tendencies. Hubei Provincial People’s Hospital Mental Health Center Psychology Associate Professor Chen Zhenhua that sex addiction is divided into three categories: one is compensatory behavior, that is, with an addiction to replace another addiction; the second is the pressure relief behavior, that is, with sex to relieve the pressure of another; the third is the pathological impulsive compulsive behaviors, or known as impulse control disorders. Expert prescription: there is no targeted drug treatment Wuhan Third Hospital, deputy director of urology Zhang Zhichao introduced, he personally received patients, at least eight women proposed to prescribe for their husbands to weaken the hypersexuality of the drug, but he refused to one by one. Zhang Zhichao said, blocking androgen drugs, can indeed weaken men’s sexual arousal, but the drug is generally used in the clinical treatment of prostate cancer, if simply used to weaken libido, only to lead to erectile dysfunction. Huang Hua, director of the mental health department of the provincial Sun Yat-sen Hospital, also said that she is currently prescribed for patients with sex addiction is mostly the treatment of schizophrenia drugs, patients take, the sexual urge can be temporarily controlled, but whether it can be cured after stopping the drug, is still not known. Addiction cases: transfer of attention, can quit sex addiction Hubei Provincial People’s Hospital Mental Health Center Associate Professor of Psychology Chen Zhenhua introduced, 32-year-old Chai Hu (a pseudonym) is a legal adviser, in order to have a healthy baby, in early 2008, Chai Hu quit smoking and alcohol, unexpectedly every weekend thereafter in the Internet about the strange women out of the room, lasted more than a year. Chai Hu is very contradictory, on the one hand is a beloved wife, on the other hand, but can not suppress sexual arousal, remorse, he decided to go to the hospital for treatment. Chen Zhenhua said, Chai Hu’s sex addiction belongs to the compensatory behavior, because an addictive behavior after withdrawal, must be replaced by another hobby behavior, Chai Hu that is a sexual addiction instead of tobacco addiction alcohol addiction. To quit sex addiction method is also very simple: may wish to cultivate some new interests, hobbies, instead of sex addiction. Smart Chaihu a little bit of understanding, and then a weekend, he consciously organized classmates gatherings, watching movies and a variety of collective activities, 3 months later, the sex addiction drug-free self-break.