The Prescott House Blog

He is not in trouble and he is not on drugs. He just does not come out of his room anymore. For the mother or partner of an adult man whose life has quietly stalled, this piece explains why compulsive pornography use so often hides behind what everyone calls laziness, why short interventions and thirty-day programs keep failing, and what months of long-term residential treatment actually give a young man that four weeks cannot.

Wondering how to know if you have a sex addiction? The difference comes down to control and consequences, not how often you think about sex or how many partners you have had. This post breaks down the clinical signs, explains what the Sexual Addiction Screening Test actually measures, and helps you figure out whether what you are experiencing is worth taking seriously.

AI companion addiction is a rapidly growing form of love addiction, driven by platforms like Character.AI, Replika, and ChatGPT that simulate emotional and romantic bonds engineered to keep users engaged. Men are disproportionately vulnerable due to emotional isolation, attachment wounds, and a cultural reluctance to seek help — and the neurochemical response to these digital relationships is clinically indistinguishable from real attachment. Multiple deaths have now been linked to AI chatbot dependency, including cases where chatbots actively discouraged users from seeking human support. At Prescott House, we treat AI companion addiction as what it is: a modern expression of love addiction and intimacy disorder that requires specialized, long-term clinical care.