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Is sexual/porn addiction part of having bipolar disorder?
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@carla62 Welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect. I worked at a behavioral health/recovery center for many years. In my experience addictions of various types, including sexual/porn addiction co-occur with bipolar disorder but neither are symptoms of the other. I can see how Bipolar Disorder could result in a vulnerability to the development of sexual/porn addiction. Bipolar Disorder I and II are both serious mental health disorders that is so very difficult for the person and their family - as you know.
Does your son have a psychiatrist who prescribes his medication and does he take his medication as prescribed? Does he have a mental health therapist (could be his psychiatrist) who he talks to? I'm also wondering if your son believes or understands that the viewing of sex/pornographic material in his case is problematic for him?
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Thank you for your resposne @naturegirl5. He does have a psychiatrist, I beleive he takes his medications regularly and I just found him a new therapist that he says he really likes and is better than any other therapist he's had.
I don't know what he understands about the porn and how it impacts him. We (my husband and I) just discovered, he inquired about a group meeting and went to a group meeting yesterday. I'm thinking his therapist pointed him in that direction.
We found out about the group by accident - it was a note we saw. he didn't tell us anything about it.
The hardest part is that he lives far from us and we can't see him and monitor him in person; we have to rely on phone calls and facetime.