Do they ever go away?

What does it mean if you've had them since you were younger than 5 years old? Are some people wired for paraphilia? Is it something you have at birth?

And do they ever go away? Is this something you will have to battle for the rest of your life?

Unfortunately, I'd say yes, paraphilias are forever.

I very much seem to have been wired for a paraphilia. In fact, some of my very earliest memories are associated with my paraphilia. I was 3 years old when my first attraction developed.

All I know is that most paraphiliacs don't recover, though I have heard it is manageable.

If anyone else has any studies concerning paraphilia treatment, I'd be interested in taking a look.

I refuse to believe that I can't get better.
Maybe something happened in my infant/toddler years....I won't resign myself to a life of perversion.

Sigh....Been contemplating suicide all day long (I won't do anything, but I want to....part of me feels utterly hopeless).

Hey, are you feeling better?
Why do you want it to go away, maybe it isn't so bad.
Being born a certain way or feeling a certain way is no reason to take your own life.

Paraphilias can faze out.

They have with myself when i was younger with some of the more extreme and abnormal one's. How it happend i couldnt tell you, or the reason's why. So all i can offer is to tell you that it is possible.

There is treatment. Though it's usually offered to men.

"Treatment approaches have included traditional psychoanalysis, hypnosis, and behavior therapy techniques. More recently, a class of drugs called antiandrogens that drastically lower testosterone levels temporarily have been used in conjunction with these forms of treatment. The drug lowers the sex drive in males and reduces the frequency of mental imagery of sexually arousing scenes. This allows concentration on counseling without as strong a distraction from the paraphiliac urges. Increasingly, the evidence suggests that combining drug therapy with cognitive behavior therapy can be effective."

http://psychologytoday.com/conditions/p ... #Treatment