I never thought of it as an addiction

it Sounds bizarre to me to say that I have a sex addiction because I never thought being sexual as a secret was a bad thing but when I think about how much it’s affected my life… it’s amazing. Starting from a very young age. Ridiculously young age. I’ve realized that I have always given the attention that I long for to others for so long that I never have paid attention to my problems because I want to fix everyone else’s problems. This thought just came to me the other day and I can’t believe it took me this long. Why didn’t anyone teach me or tell me to pay attention to myself and how important it was?!?! Or did I just not hear them???