Quote from: dalebert on February 04, 2012, 04:33:17 PM
I'd never heard of her before this. How exactly is she known? What is her claim to fame, so to speak?
It seems, at the moment, in the UK generally, being a celebrity is about having previously been a celebrity.
TV is filled to bursting with so called, reality shows, mostly featuring celebrities. When you're especially bored, you can check up the background to some of them and most, it seems are famous for being on a celebrity show.
I seem to recall, this woman made some claim, previously, to being a sex addict. Presumably that didn't attract the attention she was looking for, so she's come out with this little titbit.
Incidently, addictions are not my speciality, but I'm pretty sure, based upon what I can recall from my own medical studies, that so called sex addiction isn't an addiction, its a compulsion. On the surface the same thing, but actually very different.
An addiction is where there is a dependence upon a substance, nicotine, alcohol, drugs and so on. Withdrawal produced symptoms. But, more importantly, perhaps crutially, if the substance is given in an alternative form, such as nicotine gum, then the craving will disappear.
A compulsion is a repeated behaviour that has a negative effect. Such as compulsive hand washing. I've had patients who couldn't stop washing their hands and they had literally washed their skin to the point where it bleeds profusely. Other compulsions are continually checking the front door, continual body movements, many other things.
The important point though is that stopping the behaviour produces an excessive anxiety condition where the patient can even feint, or harm themselves in other ways.
A smiling, seeming well balanced woman, managing to pull even a few men, let alone 100, then talk about it, so cheerfully on TV, isn't really obsessive compulsive neurotic material. These people are generally miserable, anxious, in poor physical conditon and actually quite ill.
No I do need to qualify this by pointing out that, in the last 20 or so years, especially, there have been a whole library of new conditions, invented. They mostly have enigmatic three letter titles and require the services of expensive therapists. )In laymens terms, baloney.
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