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Hypersexuality as a Result of Abuse | Kati Morton

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    Hey, everybody. Happy Thursday. Now
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    today's video is on a topic that we
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    haven't discussed in years. And that topic
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    is hypersexuality as a result of
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    childhood sexual abuse or sexual assault.
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    And the question I got was, "Hey, Katie, I
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    was raped as a child and as a consequence
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    I'm hypersexual. You've discussed how
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    painful and hard it can be to have a
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    healthy sex life after being sexually
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    abused but you haven't talked about how
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    else one might react, such as, being
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    overly sexual. It would be interesting to
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    see what you think about it. I feel we're
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    a minority and it's not talked about much.
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    I may be wrong but since it's not
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    something widely discussed, I wouldn't
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    know. It's something that I struggle with
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    daily and has gotten me into many
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    dangerous situations, so I'm curious to
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    know." And the first thing that I want to
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    say is, that the truth about childhood
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    sexual abuse or sexual assault at any age.
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    The most common response is actually to be
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    hypersexual and so I just want to put that
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    out there, that you are not in the
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    minority, you're actually in the majority.
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    So, know that you're not alone. And I know
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    a lot of you out there watching this video
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    who haven't gone through this are
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    thinking doesn't that, isn't that like the
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    opposite. Isn't that counterintuitive? Why
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    would someone who was harmed sexually as
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    a child or at some point in their life,
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    then turn around and be hypersexual. Why
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    would they do that? Why would they hurt
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    themselves with the very thing that hurt
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    them in beginning? And there are many
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    reasons that we do it. The first, is that
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    it's a way to regain control, to take it
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    back. Many of my clients have told me
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    that they will be hypersexual, they'll
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    put themselves into dangerous sexual
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    situations because it's their way of
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    saying "It's my body, I decide. I do what
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    I want." And it's almost like they get to
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    reverse the role. Instead of feeling like
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    someone has control over them and can do
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    whatever they want to them and even
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    saying no isn't stopping it. They get to
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    choose and they get to have as much sex as
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    they want. The second reason many people
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    become hypersexualized, is validation.
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    Imagine if we were sexually abused as
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    children. We were raised in that
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    environment. Thorugh that time in our
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    formative years. We were shown that maybe
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    the only way we got one on one attention
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    was with sex. Maybe the only time we were
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    really told that we were loved was through
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    sex. Maybe that's how we knew we were
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    worthwhile and we were important. And all
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    of those things. Maybe that was something
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    we were told while we were being sexually
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    abused. So you can see, how if that's what
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    happening in our formative years, even
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    into our teens. We will associate love,
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    support, validation with sex. Therefore in
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    order to get what we all need, right, we
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    all need love, validation and support. We
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    will then turn to sex to fill that need.
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    And if you're new to my channel, don't
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    forget to subscribe and make sure you
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    click that bell icon on my homepage so
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    that you get notified. I've heard from a
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    lot of you, that you're being made aware
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    of the videos when I put them up. So
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    clicking that bell and turning on your
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    notifications should change that. But the
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    third reason that I know of, in my
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    experience is chemical dependency. And
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    that sounds like we're talking about
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    addiction and we kind of are. Sex can
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    release those feel good hormones. You know
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    how I've talked about different chemicals
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    in our brain, like dopamine and
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    norepinephrine. And all those things that
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    swirl around and make us feel really good.
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    Sex releases those. Therefore, if we've
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    been hypersexualized we're already maybe
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    used to being abused and being sexualized
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    for many night, maybe every night growing
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    up. When we get older we still seek out
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    that same feeling and that's why when you
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    talk about treatment for this, the next
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    stage then is, like, dual treatment. We
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    need to treat potentially the addiction
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    and that like yearning for that feel good,
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    that dopamine, that serotonin, that
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    norepinephrine that gets released. We may
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    seek that out, so we need to deal with the
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    addiction, the sex addiction. And
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    secondly we have to heal from our trauma
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    and you I did those videos with Alexa,
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    where we talked about trauma therapy and
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    EMDR. And all the different ways that you
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    can heal from a trauma. And as always
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    leave in the comments your own experience.
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    I'm just sharing what I know and those are
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    only three reasons that I'm aware of.
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    Maybe they're others that I'm forgetting.
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    Please let us know. And if you want more
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    videos about this and you like this kind
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    of content, like I said we haven't talked
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    about it in maybe years. Then give us a
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    thumbs up and let me know as well. And
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    I hope that you found this helpful, I hope
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    this is healing and lets you know that you
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    are not in the minority. You are instead
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    in the majority and things can and will
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    get better. And I will see you next time.
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    Bye!
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Hypersexuality as a Result of Abuse | Kati Morton
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