{"id":183654,"date":"2024-02-26T11:26:49","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T17:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/scientists-find-link-between-adhd-depression-and-hypersexuality"},"modified":"2024-02-26T11:26:49","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T17:26:49","slug":"scientists-find-link-between-adhd-depression-and-hypersexuality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/scientists-find-link-between-adhd-depression-and-hypersexuality","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Find Link Between ADHD, Depression and Hypersexuality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-find-link-between-adhd-depression-and-hypersexuality2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although the interplay between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.issm.info\/sexual-health-qa\/what-is-the-connection-between-mental-health-and-sexual-health\" class=\"\">sex and mental health<\/a> is well-studied, a new study suggests there may be a complex correlation between seemingly disparate disorders.<\/p>\n<p>In a new paper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S2666915324000155\" class=\"\">published in the <em>Journal of Affective Disorders Reports<\/em><\/a>, a group of Italian psychology researchers say they\u2019ve found a correlation between attention-deficit\/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), depressive symptoms, hypomania (the clinical term for \u201cmania\u201d or high energy) and hypersexuality, or an intense preoccupation with sexual thoughts and acts \u2014 and that people who experience these sets of symptoms may use sex as a sort of \u201cself-medication.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Study coauthors Giacomo Ciocca, a sexual psychology assistant professor at Rome\u2019s Sapienza University, and Davide Doroldi, a clinical psychologist, told <em>PsyPost<\/em> that they were inspired to look into the possible link after observing higher rates of hypersexuality among people with ADHD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the interplay between sex and mental health is well-studied, a new study suggests there may be a complex correlation between seemingly disparate disorders. In a new paper published in the Journal of Affective Disorders Reports, a group of Italian psychology researchers say they\u2019ve found a correlation between attention-deficit\/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), depressive symptoms, hypomania (the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47,1901],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}