An ex Charlene deGuzman had slept with wasn’t texting her straight straight right back. For many people, this could be annoying—a explanation to wallow for an night while blasting Beyoncй. However for deGuzman, who had been when you look at the throes of love and intercourse addiction during the time, not receiving a reply from an “unavailable” man lead her perilously near to suicide.

“That had been my moment that is first seeing I experienced really become unwell,” the 33-year-old from l . a . recalls. “I seriously wished to destroy myself—like, in a really severe means,” she says, due to “a man whom never ever liked me personally to start out with perhaps not texting me personally right back.”