Although I go by the DSM a lot, the DSM is just a book...do you know that the DSM does not really discuss sex addiction as an addiction either?

Don't get me wrong, the DSM is a beneficial text, a really beneficial text...but I also feel we need to be concerned about how to help define Blues question--and specifically help him figure it out on his own, not the APA terminology of addict.

Besides, a lot of DSM is NOS...so...

Dunno...no one likes labels, but sometimes we get the labels even if we dont want them or not. LABELS dont really matter, it is how we DEAL with ourselves and those others perceptions of our labels (which still dont really matter)...