Relationship Factors in Psychosexual Disorders
Psychosexual disorders undermine not only the person who suffer from them personally, but also the people in their everyday relationships too. Whether family, friends, or, particularly, their lover – psychosexual disorders can have such a power that, if not dealt with properly, can severe the most precious relationships. An individual’s psychosexual disorders, such as sexual dysfunctions and perversions, are rarely discussed in the open. However understanding a friend may be, some disorders are so abnormal and are such a source of anxieties that it creates a positive feedback cycle: If you cloak your disorders from your friends, then you are denying your inner anxieties; if you deny your inner anxieties, you alienate your honest relationships; if you are unwilling to risk and alienate your honest relationship, then it is not worth discussing your disorders.
Psychosexual disorders first and foremost impact a patient’s inclinations to have sex. Therefore, of all relationships, psychosexual disorders – even the most mundane – are going to impact the relationship of spouses. Sexual dysfunctions such as lack of sexual desire are the most common form of disorder that is sought treatment for. Knowing the relationship factors is the first step of the treatment of psychosexual disorders. The reasons vary, but primarily it is because sexual dysfunctions are highly common that it is no longer stigmatized or avoided.
Sufferers of psychosexual disorders cannot hide them from their partner. Among the symptoms of psychosexual disorders include a lack of sexual desire or arousal, inability to properly engage in sexual activity, i.e. impotence, or even suffering from pain or anxieties during sex. Though the sources of these inadequacies may be physiological, it is increasingly being treated as psychological disorders mostly through psychotherapy. Though sexual dysfuncitons can be sourced to stress or anxieties from childhood; stress, guilt, or disappointment from the sexual relationship can be a key cause to it too. Naturally, lovers attempt to avoid these accusations, but if they are the source, then it is difficult to trick the mind into believing otherwise. Psychosexual disorders factors into relationships between lovers by interrupting their natural and healthy routines and treatment of psychosexual disorders is essential for recovery of such relationships. Generally psychotherapy will be helpful as a treatment.
Some relationships actively play a role in the exacerbating the sympthoms of psychosexual disorders through a person’s life. For example, cross-gender identifications – in where a person is more comfortable in the skin of the opposite sex – are a common reason for parental disownment in many societies. It is anger that their offspring is not comfortable in reproducing or behave within normal society that puts stress on sufferers forcing them to suppress these psychosexual urges. Worse, sometimes the pressure convinces the patient to deny them and get into a relationship with the opposite sex, which produces a whole heap of problems waiting to happen. Likewise, psychosexual perversions, such as voyeurism or sadism, can create such a disagreement between partners that those who get their rocks off from them have no outlet and are forced to suppress them. Obviously, following our every urge is not encouraged by any psychologist. But, with no avenue to express or channel these urges, a cycle of low self-esteem and problems in maintaining healthy relationships is created.
[ad#downcont]Relationships and how the important relationships in a patient’s life engage in sexual dysfunctions make a profound difference in treatment of those psychosexual disorders. Because psychosexual disorders are psychological and the relationship factor makes a big difference in these psychological disorders play themselves out.