Post-SSRI sexual dysfunction
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Post-SSRI sexual dysfunction
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#2Glad to see this finally getting attention. This is not what teenagers have in mind when they ask for "help".
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#3Seems I'm geo-blocked. My Location is Turkey.
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#4Seems I'm geo-blocked. My Location is Turkey.
Same in Russia. Archive:
https://web.archive.org/web/20210911150504/https://rxisk.org...
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#5Seems I'm geo-blocked. My Location is Turkey.
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#6Anecdata: an ex experienced this on SSRIs. Was brutal on her and tough for me. A friend had the same issue.
Antidepressants are an awfully tough thing to get right. Whenever my friends talk to me about them I recommend therapy and all the other things before starting ssris or the other families of brain drugs.
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#7Hmm.. a bum side effect especially since it looks like that SSRI antidepressant might be a treatment for covid.
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#8This was one of the factors that made me think twice about going back on anti-depressants, until I made peace with the fact that my ability to orgasm wasn't going to pull me out of the hole I was in. It's a shitty choice but the desire to not be suicidal forces your hand.
It's literally like flipping a switch. One day, the plumbing works. The next day, it doesn't. Many times I'd just give up, out of boredom.
The side-effects are clearly stated but to use myself as an example, I vastly underestimated just how strong they would be.
That said, if you're dealing with the big black dog as it were, don't use it as a reason to avoid anti-depressants if you really need them. Keep your doctor up to date about the side-effects so they can adjust your prescription. And don't be shy just because you're talking about your private parts.
And make sure you have a therapist too.
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#9Ugh. Yes. Not meaning to be crude here and I’m incredibly sympathetic to the men I date, but as a woman in her late 30s it’s hard to find a man my age who doesn’t have problems getting / keeping it up. Most of them link back to antidepressant use.
What about modern society drives the need for such widespread use of antidepressants? Is that something we should be willing to give up? It hasn’t always been this way, has it?
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#10On the flipside, if you have problems with premature ejaculation, taking one of those might mitigate the issue.
Not a doctor, by the way.