“…Reid et al studied patients seeking help for hypersexual behavior and reported that emotional unsteadiness, weakness against stress, and alexithymia are substantially seen in association with hypersexual behavior, and that certain aspects of alexithymia, the inability to identify and describe emotions, had a stronger correlation with the hypersexual disorder (11). Furthermore, evaluation of mindfulness, emotional dysregulation, impulsivity, and stress proneness in people with HD, as compared to normal people, revealed that people with HD have higher scores in problems with emotional regulation, compared to the group of normal people (24).…”