 [ Symptoms ] how is sexual addiction treated [ Disease ] most sex addicts live in denial of their addiction and treating an addiction is dependent on the person accepting and admitting that he or she has a problem in many cases it takes a significant event    such as the loss of a job the break up of a marriage an arrest or health crisis    to force the addict to admit to his or her problem treatment of sexual addiction focuses on controlling the addictive behavior and helping the person develop a healthy sexuality treatment includes education about healthy sexuality individual counseling and marital andor family therapy support groups and 12 step recovery programs for people with sexual addictions like sex addicts anonymous also are available in some cases medications used to treat obsessive compulsive disorder may be used to curb the compulsive nature of the sex addiction these drugs could include prozac and anafranil