Looking forward to the class action lawsuit. The drug companies owe us. Especially given the fact that we were uninformed that PSSD was even a possibility. I'd have dealt with my anxiety in other ways.
This will turn out to be a huge scandal. In absolute numbers, many people are affected by this. Also, lots of people don't know they have it since it can affect only one facet of sexuality (libido, arousal, erection/lubrication, sensitivity, loss of pleasure during orgasm) or they are told that their loss of sexuality is due to anxiety/depression. This is why the new diagnostic guideline is so important. Before doctors prescribe SSRIs/SNRIs, informed consent is what should be practiced. This condition literally ruins a lot of lives. Research is urgently needed. Thanks so much for spreading awareness! ❤
If someone doesn’t know they have it, that’d be crazy. I knew it as soon as I couldn’t feel my genitals or partner in me. When you can’t get aroused by anything or even FEEL love or romance then you know somethings wrong. It’s the most bizarre feeling and I wouldn’t wish it on anyone.
@@pinklady1812 There are cases in which everything is fine except for the ability to get (physically) aroused. This is still a form of PSSD and I mean these people who probably won't realize that they have it because it's too mild. But yes, I totally agree with you that the impact on quality of life is tremendous in severe cases.
@@pinklady1812 A lot of people who have already gone to doctors were told that their difficulties were the result of something else and have moved on. After hormone treatment didn't work, I was told that the numbness was the result of my circumcision and there was nothing that could be done. Granted I never 'lost' feeling as I have nothing to compare it to, I was on SSRIs from the ages of 9 to 18 (I am now 36). Most people who have it likely haven't heard about it yet.
Absolutely under recognized. Not a single of the four doctors who either recommended or prescribed it warned me about this possibility. I took SNRIs for years and over time lost more and more interest in sex, when I always had a high libido and high desire. I honestly think my being a woman contributed to the lack of warning, since they probably assume it’s normal for women not to want sex. I’ve been without SNRIs for a year. Being generous, I’ve gained back maybe 20% of my former desire. My new psychiatrist who I saw for ADHD-after I told her I’m concerned about dead libido due to my history with SNRIs-told me that it’s so common that SNRI/SSRIs reduce sex drive, that they often prescribe them for people with extreme sexual desire and behavior (the kind that interferes with daily life). I was horrified. No one warned me of this.
Hey! We have a lot in common: I'm also a woman, I have stopped taking antidepressants one year ago, I used to have high libido and desire, I also have ADHD, and obviously PSSD. Have you tried anything that helped improving your libido/genital sensation/orgasm intensity? I've tried damiana, but it only affected lubrification which is the least of my concerns for now since I have very low genital sensation and very mild orgasms compared to how it was before I took antidepressants.
@@extraterrestrialbug5095 hi! I’m sorry you’re also experiencing this. I have not found success. I refuse to try Addyi which is another psychosomatic and was barely better than placebo in trials. I’ve treated my hormones several times, all normal. I even got a prescription cream that is supposed to help bring blood to the area but it hasnt done much, if anything at all. Best I can do for desire is read erotic romance. It helps a bit short term.
My psychiatrist explicitly said she doesn’t believe in PSSD. Russia, Saint Petersburg, July 2024. I was prescribed escitalopram for the second time in my life, but now I’m more informed than I used to be. I won’t take it.
I prescribed SSRIs just before the onset of puberty. For years, I was led upon what is called a "medical misadventure", in which doctors tossed drugs at my brain like lawn darts to treat depression and ADHD. My depression turned out to be not chemical, but environmental--I was a lonely child with few friends in classes above what was appropriate for my emotional development. The scars those drugs left in me continue to impact my romantic and social life to this day. Today, decades later, I have just learned about PSSD. I'm shocked at how little information exists or interest there has been in talking about this issue. Why is there so little information available? Thank you for discussing this--hopefully this will be the start of more to come
Sorry to hear. Sexual function with antidepressants is being discussed more and newer antidepressants developed have focused on avoiding this SE. But it's still something that is not asked enough. Wish you well.
Brother, you should look into what is called Post Finasteride Syndrome (PFS) as well. You have been chemically castrated and the drugs they prescribed to you have damaged you on an epigenetic level. But there is hope for you. Unfortunately you will NEVER be cured by the same people that did this to you in the first place! There is no “approved” cure for what was done to you. You were mislead and poisoned and it damaged your genes. You will never find a doctor who will take you seriously or give you the answers or tools that you need to recover. And I’m here to tell you that I have experienced it too and I healed myself. It took many years but I learned the hard way that it is possible to take your life back and heal yourself. I teach others how to heal themselves and after years of trial and error I figured out how to reclaim my old self and I saved my life. I can help you do in 4 months what took me 6 years to finally figure out. Contact me at (732) 682-6276 or my email zacl2010@gmail.com. I devote my life now to helping other men get their life back! Let’s get you back to being YOU!
I can't thank you enough for making this video and addressing what most Doctors will not acknowledge. There are thousands of us worldwide suffering from this, and probably thousands more who just think they are broken because their doctors have shut them down or told it must be this or that. This condition is far greater than the sexual dysfunction.....our entire lives have been severely disrupted/ruined. Thank you again Dr for doing this.....but please don't forget about us. We need Dr's like you to be our voice!
@@PsychiatrySimplified Hi Dr Sanil Rege, Can you please explain to me what causes PSSD in some patients whilst other patients who take SSRI's return to previous sexual function once discontinuing?
@@mo87m we don’t know the exact reasons. In the video we discuss some of these. Hormonal , immunological , neurological aspects are some aspects mentioned. It may be a pre existing vulnerability but we don’t know what that is exactly.
Sorry to hear. The ssexual side effects are being discussed more and now some agents have minimal or do not lead to sexual side effects that should be considered.
Lucas. Aqui ngn sabe sobre isso. Eu me arrependo tanto de ter tomado o pondera(antidepressivo) e agora acho q vou ter q tomar tadalafila ou Viagra ou qualquer merda pra ereção para sempre
All the potential side effects are reported as though they only exist in tandem with the duration on the medication, never as post-use of the medication. I cant believe this is not talked about more. To think that taking a med could permanently chemically castrate you is terrifying.
Thank you SO much for making a video about this. I’m one of the ones who’ve fallen victim to this horrible condition. And to get some recognition goes a long way. I hope more researchers and scientists look into this condition. I’ve had it for 2 years and it’s been tough day by day to live with my emotional blunting and sexual dysfunction. Compared to depression, I’d rather have my depression.
This dr here won‘t actually tell you anything, he says PSSD exists, congrats that’s the first line of Google…. Of course it is also clear that he wouldn’t just know sh*t, it’s a complex problem and once damage is done that seems to be it (ap 2023)
Brother, you should look into what is called Post Finasteride Syndrome (PFS) as well. You have been chemically castrated and the drugs they prescribed to you have damaged you on an epigenetic level. But there is hope for you. Unfortunately you will NEVER be cured by the same people that did this to you in the first place! There is no “approved” cure for what was done to you. You were mislead and poisoned and it damaged your genes. You will never find a doctor who will take you seriously or give you the answers or tools that you need to recover. And I’m here to tell you that I have experienced it too and I healed myself. It took many years but I learned the hard way that it is possible to take your life back and heal yourself. I teach others how to heal themselves and after years of trial and error I figured out how to reclaim my old self and I saved my life. I can help you do in 4 months what took me 6 years to finally figure out. Contact me at (732) 682-6276 or my email zacl2010@gmail.com. I devote my life now to helping other men get their life back! Let’s get you back to being YOU!
Brother, you should look into what is called Post Finasteride Syndrome (PFS) as well. You have been chemically castrated and the drugs they prescribed to you have damaged you on an epigenetic level. But there is hope for you. Unfortunately you will NEVER be cured by the same people that did this to you in the first place! There is no “approved” cure for what was done to you. You were mislead and poisoned and it damaged your genes. You will never find a doctor who will take you seriously or give you the answers or tools that you need to recover. And I’m here to tell you that I have experienced it too and I healed myself. It took many years but I learned the hard way that it is possible to take your life back and heal yourself. I teach others how to heal themselves and after years of trial and error I figured out how to reclaim my old self and I saved my life. I can help you do in 4 months what took me 6 years to finally figure out. Contact me at (732) 682-6276 or my email zacl2010@gmail.com. I devote my life now to helping other men get their life back! Let’s get you back to being YOU!
I recently started taking sertraline. After 3 days i found it difficult to become aroused. I could get erect but i physically couldn't ejaculate. I looked into PSSD over the next few days and was honestly terrified. I stopped taking sertraline after 6 days. That was 3 days ago and THANKFULLY I've felt my libido increase and have been able to masturbate twice successfully since stopping treatment. My doctor did not make me aware of PSSD in any way before prescribing me the medication. I will seek an alternative treatment to my depression but it will NEVER be antidepressants again. Thank you for the video. This needs to be common knowledge
Yes. Thank you for this video. I was on Wellbutrin at one point, but the one that really caused me issues was Sertraline. Anorgasmia, ED, decreased libido, and I have honestly never been the same. I took it when I was 19 for about a year and a half, and I feel like it truly ruined parts of me I worry will never come back. Sadly. It has been 5 years, and I wish I had never taken Sertraline (Zoloft).
@@JA-gz6cj thankfully my depression and anxiety have never returned to a level of needing to get on hard medications since that time 5-6 years ago, but I am extremely hesitant to try any medications with extreme side effects, because it's not worth it.
Almost same as me.I exposed myself different kind of stimuluses and used different types of things.Computer games, gingko biloba, trying to listening music as old times, pushing myself to using my cognitive abilites harder, trying to imagine sexual contents and resting and thinking about my internal emotions,values and trying to understand and classifying them.And maybe time make me near as my old self.Except ; not anhedonic but less hedonic orgasms, decreased libido maybe i'm 26 now and im not in my late teens. Even if i didn't take sertralin i couldn't get enough pleasure from orgasm idk.I was totally apathic but i tried to feel even the smallest emotion.And i tried to repeating it.And after many years some real life experiments made me feel raw anxiety.And i tried to manipulate this raw feelings to positive ones.Maybe i sound so meaningless, goofy but endlessly trying this analogies gave me positive result. I think one of the main reasons of apathy and sexual dysfunction is you are no longer the same person who you were before starting ssri.Roughly when you quit it your mind,brain can not adapt the new situation.And trying to mix the person,character,emotion before ssri and in ssri.And this makes huge cognitive dissonance and apathy.Trying to reorder my values by time helped me the most.
People need to read side effects and they need to be comfortable with the risk, for any medication. Doctors also need to be honest about these side effects.
I tested positive for Erectile dysfunction after having a Horrible outbreak, and felt the same way you described in your interview. Listening to you share your overcome experience gave me the glim of hope i needed to hear. i am glad that there is people like you out there who just want to help other people who are struggling with the same issues. Your words gave me the courage I needed to hear today to know that it's ok. I can still be myself and now I'm enjoy my life the way I am supposed to. It is a blessing i came across you Igho Channel
Brother, you should look into what is called Post Finasteride Syndrome (PFS) as well. You have been chemically castrated and the drugs they prescribed to you have damaged you on an epigenetic level. But there is hope for you. Unfortunately you will NEVER be cured by the same people that did this to you in the first place! There is no “approved” cure for what was done to you. You were mislead and poisoned and it damaged your genes. You will never find a doctor who will take you seriously or give you the answers or tools that you need to recover. And I’m here to tell you that I have experienced it too and I healed myself. It took many years but I learned the hard way that it is possible to take your life back and heal yourself. I teach others how to heal themselves and after years of trial and error I figured out how to reclaim my old self and I saved my life. I can help you do in 4 months what took me 6 years to finally figure out. Contact me at (732) 682-6276 or my email zacl2010@gmail.com. I devote my life now to helping other men get their life back! Let’s get you back to being YOU!
It cannot save other people there is no way i could have found this without suffering through the problem these psycatric drugs should be completely banned 🚫 or given only after a concent that this to this could happen ... Damn
Brother, you should look into what is called Post Finasteride Syndrome (PFS) as well. You have been chemically castrated and the drugs they prescribed to you have damaged you on an epigenetic level. But there is hope for you. Unfortunately you will NEVER be cured by the same people that did this to you in the first place! There is no “approved” cure for what was done to you. You were mislead and poisoned and it damaged your genes. You will never find a doctor who will take you seriously or give you the answers or tools that you need to recover. And I’m here to tell you that I have experienced it too and I healed myself. It took many years but I learned the hard way that it is possible to take your life back and heal yourself. I teach others how to heal themselves and after years of trial and error I figured out how to reclaim my old self and I saved my life. I can help you do in 4 months what took me 6 years to finally figure out. Contact me at (732) 682-6276 or my email zacl2010@gmail.com. I devote my life now to helping other men get their life back! Let’s get you back to being YOU!
Thank you soooo much for addressing this topic. All of the doctors we have been to know nothing about this. Thanks especially for addressing possible treatments. Now if we can only find a doctor that will address the issues.
Brother, you should look into what is called Post Finasteride Syndrome (PFS) as well. You have been chemically castrated and the drugs they prescribed to you have damaged you on an epigenetic level. But there is hope for you. Unfortunately you will NEVER be cured by the same people that did this to you in the first place! There is no “approved” cure for what was done to you. You were mislead and poisoned and it damaged your genes. You will never find a doctor who will take you seriously or give you the answers or tools that you need to recover. And I’m here to tell you that I have experienced it too and I healed myself. It took many years but I learned the hard way that it is possible to take your life back and heal yourself. I teach others how to heal themselves and after years of trial and error I figured out how to reclaim my old self and I saved my life. I can help you do in 4 months what took me 6 years to finally figure out. Contact me at (732) 682-6276 or my email zacl2010@gmail.com. I devote my life now to helping other men get their life back! Let’s get you back to being YOU!
Brother, you should look into what is called Post Finasteride Syndrome (PFS) as well. You have been chemically castrated and the drugs they prescribed to you have damaged you on an epigenetic level. But there is hope for you. Unfortunately you will NEVER be cured by the same people that did this to you in the first place! There is no “approved” cure for what was done to you. You were mislead and poisoned and it damaged your genes. You will never find a doctor who will take you seriously or give you the answers or tools that you need to recover. And I’m here to tell you that I have experienced it too and I healed myself. It took many years but I learned the hard way that it is possible to take your life back and heal yourself. I teach others how to heal themselves and after years of trial and error I figured out how to reclaim my old self and I saved my life. I can help you do in 4 months what took me 6 years to finally figure out. Contact me at (732) 682-6276 or my email zacl2010@gmail.com. I devote my life now to helping other men get their life back! Let’s get you back to being YOU!
Oh wow there’s a doctor that knows instead of turning the cheek for the next pay check, dang relief. We need more publicity, so many lives being destroyed because of the lack of research. I’m sure we’d appreciate psychiatry more if it did more to be more innovative and forward thinking, the medical field is just lacking in new technology and research. I’d love to participate in research to save people’s lives, I currently suffer with minor sexual issues after trying an SSRI and an antipsychotic for 2 months, im just really disappointed but I’m at the point now I’d rather die trying than die giving up on this topic.
Brother, you should look into what is called Post Finasteride Syndrome (PFS) as well. You have been chemically castrated and the drugs they prescribed to you have damaged you on an epigenetic level. But there is hope for you. Unfortunately you will NEVER be cured by the same people that did this to you in the first place! There is no “approved” cure for what was done to you. You were mislead and poisoned and it damaged your genes. You will never find a doctor who will take you seriously or give you the answers or tools that you need to recover. And I’m here to tell you that I have experienced it too and I healed myself. It took many years but I learned the hard way that it is possible to take your life back and heal yourself. I teach others how to heal themselves and after years of trial and error I figured out how to reclaim my old self and I saved my life. I can help you do in 4 months what took me 6 years to finally figure out. Contact me at (732) 682-6276 or my email zacl2010@gmail.com. I devote my life now to helping other men get their life back! Let’s get you back to being YOU!
Thank you for doing this video. I have had PSSD for 8 years now after an SSRI was prescribed for PMS. I can categorically state that it has ruined my life- nothing has helped. As PSSD was only recognised in 2019, I am one of the numerous people told that my sexual dysfunction was just 'one of those things' and that there was no possible cause for my genital numbness. Within 48 hours of taking the SSRI my genitals went numb. I continued taking the SSRI for 18 months, even doubling the dose. Interestingly, every time I tried to talk to my GP SSRI side effects, even common ones such as weight gain, I was told that the drug was unlikely to be to blame. SSRIs are a very well used class of drugs, so it is a spectacular failure of pharmacovigilance for such a devastating side effect to be ignored for over 3 decades. Every doctor who told their injured patients that the SSRI was not the cause should hang their head in shame- they are part of the reason it took so long for PSSD to be recognised- adverse drug events were not being recorded. I find it ridiculous that SSRIs are a) used as first choice drugs and b) dished out by GPs as a panacea given their horrific side effects, temporary and permanent, and awful withdrawal. I only had access to kinder antidepressants with negligible side effects once I went private after my chemical castration. It was too late by then. I also am not particularly excited by the emerging research into PSSD: finding out which drugs give tiny improvements that are clinically insignificant does not help anyone. We need to find the cause of the genital numbness, we need a test for PSSD and we need to quantify the scale of the problem. Psychiatry has jumped from 'PSSD is not a thing' to 'PSSD is very rare' rather too seamlessly. No research has ever been done to establish how many people truly recover sexually from taking SSRIs.
@@PsychiatrySimplified I have tried tadalafil which improves the physiological response. I have also tried bupropion, vortioxetine and agomelatine. The latter 2 did nothing whatsoever. Bupropion maybe improved things 5% by improving libido, but I still had no sexual sensation or sexual pleasure. Unfortunately, many doctors have some very strange views about female sexual function and insinuate that there are other 'benefits' of having sex besides sexual pleasure. They started waffling on about 'intimacy' instead. I don't think it has occurred to these doctors that PSSD destroys the feeling of intimacy, so all sexual contact is cringeworthy. I get the impression that they think that PSSD is somehow not as bad for women. I fully expect the research into PSSD to be conducted on men and women will be an afterthought.
@@sarahbrowne5712 flibanserin is a recent one approved for women. Has that been discussed? Uncertain whether it targets all aspects of the sexual cycle though?
@@sarahbrowne5712 I checked it’s not. Here is an article with range of options psychscenehub.com/psychinsights/sexual-dysfunction-with-antidepressants/
I took fluvoxamine for just 7 days and landed in sexual dysfunction. It’s been 9 months now still no recovery. Please spread awareness. These SSRI’s must be neurotoxic and prescribing SSRI’s should be considered as crime
Brother, you should look into what is called Post Finasteride Syndrome (PFS) as well. You have been chemically castrated and the drugs they prescribed to you have damaged you on an epigenetic level. But there is hope for you. Unfortunately you will NEVER be cured by the same people that did this to you in the first place! There is no “approved” cure for what was done to you. You were mislead and poisoned and it damaged your genes. You will never find a doctor who will take you seriously or give you the answers or tools that you need to recover. And I’m here to tell you that I have experienced it too and I healed myself. It took many years but I learned the hard way that it is possible to take your life back and heal yourself. I teach others how to heal themselves and after years of trial and error I figured out how to reclaim my old self and I saved my life. I can help you do in 4 months what took me 6 years to finally figure out. Contact me at (732) 682-6276 or my email zacl2010@gmail.com. I devote my life now to helping other men get their life back! Let’s get you back to being YOU!
Thank you. I have been anogasmia for 30 years. Constantly complained to different gp’s and been ignored. I knew it started when I went on SSRI’s in my 20’s but I didn’t understand why I still have the issue in my 50’s.
Sorry to hear. Other conditions such a female orgasmic disorder can also contribute to anorgasmia. An assessment by a doctor specialising in sexual disorders or a gynaecologist can assist.
That is interesting. Thanks for sharing. Make or female? Prescribed? For which specific symptoms. This would really help in learning and ofcourse help others.
@@PsychiatrySimplified Male, 24 yo. Can be prescribed but I just order it myself through peptide websites. In my case, I have sexual desire but no arousal. PDE-5 inhibitors really don’t have an effect. I do sub-q injections of the pt-141, from my research the nasal spray isn’t very effective.
I had depression prior to these drugs I had no issues with ED. Many Doctors will not listen. The problem is laser surgery regarding genitals is not covered by most health care insurance. It's classified as cosmetics and is expensive. The health care system is corrupt . I told my former psychiatrist about trazodon. He said that has serotonin too he said it can cause seizures. Yet so can all antidepressants. My psychiatrist was arrogant. Wanted his way did not listen ignored my complaints. He was a bully
They know the side effects and that's the whole point why they prescribe them. It's all a giant scam to kill off and sterilize people in western countries who fall for their lies. I've had doctors try offer me anti-depressants and after doing my research I have no intention of taking them. I'll stick to weed and having a sex drive!
The majority of psychiatric drug trials are conducted and commissioned by the pharmaceutical industry or those who have extensive ties with them. This industry has a long history burying negative results, and of manipulating research to highlight positive outcomes.
The tendency of SSRI’s to cause sexual dysfunction is one of the most terrible, serious, and unacceptable flaws of modern medicine. The entire point of giving an antidepressant to someone is to make them feel better, and to reduce emotional turmoil. But causing serious sexual dysfunction is an awful side effect because it significantly reduces the patients ability to have healthy intimate relationships and to feel sexual pleasure, and is completely at odds with the goal of improving mental health and someone’s satisfaction with their lives. The fact that SSRI’s cause sexual dysfunction in 50% of patients who receive them, and can cause severe long term sexual dysfunction in rare cases of PSSD is genuinely abhorrent, and makes me wish that these medications were removed from general practice decades ago.
Looking into the price side, these SSRI tablets doesn't cost much more than other medications so it's not a big business. Also why the governments allowing pharma companies and psychiatrists make havoc on sexual life of it's citizens.
@@sarathua1976 I’m not sure Sarah, I think the financial conflict of interest from pharmaceutical companies is a huge reason why these SSRI’s became so popular in the first place- a giant marketing campaign to make money, even though an honest look at the data suggests that SSRI’s are barely better then placebo for mild-moderate mental health problems and have serious side effects I wouldn’t be surprised if sexual dysfunction was intentionally underplayed by these companies to sell more medicine initially- it’s genuinely baffling and unethical and unacceptable that as a society we tolerate this.
@@alexanderscott3404 But Alexander we have various agencies like US FDA, European Medicines Agency, and various national institutions that are self-proclaimed to safeguard the interests of its citizens like health and safety which then allows pharma companies to indulge in such a horrendous crime. A person who received SSRI medication during his/her teens will suffer from massive problems in adulthood, even well functioning adults become sexually dysfunctional on receiving the SSRI treatment. So SSRI is actually anti citizen, thus anti national. What a world this is. We can understand state of agencies in developing world, most of them will be corrupted, why developed countries' agencies allowing this.
Totally agree with you all. We are running into a public health emergency. It's unbelievable that such a catastrophe is possible in medicine in 2022. This renders me speechless.
Brother, you should look into what is called Post Finasteride Syndrome (PFS) as well. You have been chemically castrated and the drugs they prescribed to you have damaged you on an epigenetic level. But there is hope for you. Unfortunately you will NEVER be cured by the same people that did this to you in the first place! There is no “approved” cure for what was done to you. You were mislead and poisoned and it damaged your genes. You will never find a doctor who will take you seriously or give you the answers or tools that you need to recover. And I’m here to tell you that I have experienced it too and I healed myself. It took many years but I learned the hard way that it is possible to take your life back and heal yourself. I teach others how to heal themselves and after years of trial and error I figured out how to reclaim my old self and I saved my life. I can help you do in 4 months what took me 6 years to finally figure out. Contact me at (732) 682-6276 or my email zacl2010@gmail.com. I devote my life now to helping other men get their life back! Let’s get you back to being YOU!
I took my last escitalopram pill on 2020 Dec and from there my withdrawal effects began after one month and got to its extreme. After 17 months of utter torture my side-effects finally got lil better. The side-effects I suffered from: Headache Brain-zaps Hairfall Brittle hair Scalp tingling during sleep Dry skin Anhedonia Brain-fog Cognitive disability Walking without balance Insomnia (2 hours max sleep) Zero motivation Suicidal thoughts Numb genitals 10% libido Delayed ejaculation Erectile dysfunction Muscle twitches Weight gain GERD Extreme sweating Heart palpitations Now my remaining side-effects are: Mild erectile dysfunction Mild genital numbness 6 hours sleep max Weak libido Low motivation Weak memory Groin pain Hope my remaining side-effects escalate and hope for every sufferer a speedy recovery. 😗
@@user-ge2vv4hs6z After 17 months I noticed recovery and it is slow. I never tried anything and waited for time to heal every other issue and it worked for me but needs patience. Dont risk taking other antidepressant, alcohol or any other herb for treatment.
This is one of the guys who actually cares about people, in case you didnt notice guys. Thank you for being the person you are. I will put all this information to good use by finding all herbs and supplements in every online clinical science based study... which agonise or antagonise these biomechanisms, until I can post a total solution or publish a book with the details for all. What you have done is clearly intended to help people and professional understand a better safer humane way of looking after and treating patients. Very humanitarian. Thank you very much. U could have stayed ignorant and arogant reading basal abstracts and in stead your impetues to research this is given valence by your salient humane inclines in the context of your works construct. What more can you do. So i thank u from the feeling I soaked up from your clear intent. Doc.
I’ve been on antidepressants since age 8 (I’m 29) and have never had an orgasm. I don’t know if it’s PSSD or something else. I’ve tried multiple treatments, been to a urologist who discovered nothing, been to a sex therapist, and so far nothing has improved. No one has really taken it seriously. Most of my past psychiatrists and neurologists didn’t believe me. I don’t have penile numbness, just no orgasm. Best I’ve ever had was on par with a sneeze, worst have been painful. I’ve pretty much come to terms that this is just life, but I’m still hopeful to one day actually feel something on the pleasure scale beyond a 1/10 during sex/masturbation.
@@PsychiatrySimplified I’m currently on Wellbutrin and Paroxetine, as well as buspar, clonidine and trazadone for sleep. As far as I’m aware my hormone levels have always been fine. I know I’ve had testosterone checked multiple times. I’m not sure but I think I also had prolactin levels taken about 5 years ago. I can feel penile stimulation/pleasure and ejaculation is no problem when I’m alone (much more difficult with other people but that’s probably trauma-related - that trauma occurring in young adulthood so not related to anorgasmia). I just have never felt pleasure from orgasm, penile or prostate (nor can I ejaculate at all from prostate massage, etc).
Brother, you should look into what is called Post Finasteride Syndrome (PFS) as well. You have been chemically castrated and the drugs they prescribed to you have damaged you on an epigenetic level. But there is hope for you. Unfortunately you will NEVER be cured by the same people that did this to you in the first place! There is no “approved” cure for what was done to you. You were mislead and poisoned and it damaged your genes. You will never find a doctor who will take you seriously or give you the answers or tools that you need to recover. And I’m here to tell you that I have experienced it too and I healed myself. It took many years but I learned the hard way that it is possible to take your life back and heal yourself. I teach others how to heal themselves and after years of trial and error I figured out how to reclaim my old self and I saved my life. I can help you do in 4 months what took me 6 years to finally figure out. Contact me at (732) 682-6276 or my email zacl2010@gmail.com. I devote my life now to helping other men get their life back! Let’s get you back to being YOU!
Thank you for this video. I have sexual dysfunction that has gone on over a year with every symptom you mentioned. This started after going on and off fluoxetine in a span of a year. I had a terrible reaction that resembled serotonin syndrome. Akathisia, feelings of terror, no sleep for about a week, non-stop diarrhea and nausea, jerking in my legs and tongue. When this triggered for me I also lost my sexual functioning like a light switch and my anhedonia got worse (now unable to feel music). Thankfully all of those symptoms got better over time but the sexual dysfunction and anhedonia remain. I had taken SSRI’s in the past with no issues other than delayed orgasm (fluoxetine for OCD and later Sertraline for situational depression) I also wanted to add I had the genital numbness the last few times on fluoxetine but I had no issues with erections or pleasure with orgasms. Now after being off I have issues with every aspect Is there any way to treat the remaining sexual dysfunction and anhedonia? Thank you 🙏🏼
Sorry to hear; it's difficult to provide individual advice but dopaminergic agents such as Bupropion can help both for sexual dysfunction and anhedonia. there are other dopaminergic agents that can be considered covered in the video. PS not advice. Wish you well.
Brother, you should look into what is called Post Finasteride Syndrome (PFS) as well. You have been chemically castrated and the drugs they prescribed to you have damaged you on an epigenetic level. But there is hope for you. Unfortunately you will NEVER be cured by the same people that did this to you in the first place! There is no “approved” cure for what was done to you. You were mislead and poisoned and it damaged your genes. You will never find a doctor who will take you seriously or give you the answers or tools that you need to recover. And I’m here to tell you that I have experienced it too and I healed myself. It took many years but I learned the hard way that it is possible to take your life back and heal yourself. I teach others how to heal themselves and after years of trial and error I figured out how to reclaim my old self and I saved my life. I can help you do in 4 months what took me 6 years to finally figure out. Contact me at (732) 682-6276 or my email zacl2010@gmail.com. I devote my life now to helping other men get their life back! Let’s get you back to being YOU!
I only took SSRI for a week. I was 17 when I took it. Im 26 now. Still suffering from PSSD. This is a crime. They stole my youth. Im still hoping to recover by losing weight. Its getting slowly better when Iose weight so lets keep hope
Its not important for a patient to ask aboit any side effect, THEY SHOULD BE TOLD!!!!!!! But patient's are told NOTHING!!!!! Because if they were told they would not take them.
Doc gave me zoloft to save my life and i was hesitant to use antidepressant but finally agreed. 3years later, PSSD makes me feel worse than during those dark times because not only am i angry at the system, i am angry at myselft for taking that medecine. ( my life is not in danger. I wanna heal, not die )
I have experienced emotional blunting after discontinuation that has never gone away. My libido has remained high. I think these drugs are not worth the risk, they are almost identical to placebo in efficacy. This is a case of a medication slipping through the regulatory process with a very high potential for iatrogenic harm. This is due to the short term nature and limited scope of pharmaceutical trials at the time. They have been over marketed and grandfathered in. They are insanely overprescribed, back when I was put on them my quack of a doctor decided to put me on paxil for an “add” diagnoses and “generalized anxiety disorder.” These are both bs terms coined by marketing departments to sell medications. Its normal for a college student to be anxious and have trouble paying attention at times. People are just getting maimed in the name of quarterly prophets. This is an all to familiar theme in our modern society and we as a people are just passively accepting the mass casualties of corporate greed as if it were a force of nature that we are at the mercy of. It’s no conspiracy, just sloppy trial design and a lack of follow up research.
SSRI have contributed a great deal to my quality of life and the impotence is a side effect I can put up with because I don't miss the horrible depression I used to suffer.
If I ever see the person who made citalopram I’d punch them in the face. I’ve been called crazy by many Drs too many times . Yes big pharmaceutical is responsible
After just 3 days on anxiety meds this happened to me. Genital numbness was first to go then my emotions. Along with cognitive issues. I stopped the meds but things got worse. I have trouble with speech,memory and balance now.Some of my emotions have came back but I cant feel them all the way. I can find something funny but can't laugh if that makes sense. Numb genitals was one thing but the loss of emotions and not being able to feel pleasure at all was nothing but torture. Music didn't feel the same. I still don't dream anymore. I couldn't get out of bed. I wouldn't wish that on anyone. Now my son who is adhd/ocd and only 5 his drs want to medicate him. I know he needs it cause things have gotten bad but I can not allow this to happen to him.
@@ishesabi3467 and as for me my emotions never fully returned. They returned about 50 percent. I feel disconnected most of the time. Numbness went away my sex life is back to normal. But my mental state since those pills has never been the same. I attempted to take my life twice. I would have never done that before. I feel disconnected from who I used to be. Almost like i can look at old pictures and have memories of who i was but cant connect to them like they are someone else's? If that makes sense? My bad emotions are magnified. My good emotions are barely hanging on but they are there. I still.cant feel excitement or laugh. I still have a stutter when I talk and lose my words constantly. My memory is still shot. I was not like this before those 3 pills. They changed me within days. I have good days and really bad days when I feel nothing but doom. I have a great husband for support which helps tons.
I have PSSD since i started with SSRI citalopram when I was 16 years old till now 32 years old. its so freaking sad and I still hope there will come some cure on 1 day or a solution...
For me it's been 41 years with no libido, genital anesthesia, and difficulty knowing when I need to urinate. However. I've never taken SSRIs, but was injected with Haldol. You can find my story in the text video on my channel and in the "about me".
@@Protracted-Withdrawal How can you be so sure? These is not your first negative reaction to people. If there is no way except suicide - as you say before- what are you waiting for? Stop promoting hopelessness. This is inhuman.
I tested positive for Erectile dysfunction after having a Horrible outbreak, and felt the same way you described in your interview. Listening to you share your overcome experience gave me the glim of hope i needed to hear. i am glad that there is people like you out there who just want to help other people who are struggling with the same issues. Your words gave me the courage I needed to hear today to know that it's ok. I can still be myself and now I'm enjoy my life the way I am supposed to. It is a blessing i came across you Igho Channel
Thank you to everyone that's shared their experiences down below! I have history with genital numbness and I was prescribed nexito today. My doc never asked about my history or warned me. I don't think I'm going to take it
Doctor, thank you very much for raising awareness, but please beware that virtually any antidepressant including trazodone and mirtazapine can also cause PSSD. No antidepressant is completely safe with regards to sexual function except maybe tianeptine which has very different mechanism of action. In my case it was trazodone that gave me this awful syndrome. Even though I've managed to recover significantly over the course of several years, I still have some residual symptoms which linger to this day and remind me of those difficult times. Personally I've met many people who got PSSD (and severe one!) from trazodone or mirtazapine and some of them have had it for 10+ years without any improvements so I consider myself very lucky. In addition, I would like to add that there's been increasingly more evidence that epigenetic gene expression might be behind this condition which I guess is not good news for the sufferers.
Sorry to hear that this happened to you my doctor wanted to try me on trazodone as well I thought that one was at least safe as well as the other one you mentioned.
I have had PSSD for over 3 years. Just wondering if anyone has had a continuation of tinnitus as well. Never had tinnitus until taking the SSRI but after discontinuing my ears have not stopped ringing for over 3 yrs
Are you having any other features of mixed state? Sleep disturbances - racing thoughts , difficulty falling asleep , nightmares or night sweats , early morning awakening. Inner restlessness , agitation, other depressive thoughts along with this or is it only tinnitus with pssd.
@@PsychiatrySimplified I had no other side effects to the Fluoxetine and those two side effects started within two weeks of initially taking the med and neither side effect has gone away.
Depression may be caused by low dopamine all along yet all these doctors prescribe serotonin as if that's gonna help. All increasing serotonin does is lower your sex drive and make you a suicidal robot with no emotions.
@@oldmancigar8865 I did have low dopamine. A doctor put me on Risperdal when I was 18. I became severely depressed. Low sex drive. Didn't enjoy life anymore. I kept going to doctor after doctor. In and out of psychiatric wards for severe depression. The doctors kept lying to me and saying Risperdal doesn't do those things even though I read online it does. I felt this way even after stopping the Risperdal and I only took it for a month. They wanted to put me on SSRI drugs. I turned it down. I discovered cabergoline reading on the internet. The doctors at first didn't want to put me on it. I finally found a doctor willing to let me try it and I've been on it for 13 years now.
@@blackflyingfox3365 similar thing happened to me. I was given melatonin (which lowers dopamine) at the start of high school in 7th grade every night and it ruined my school grades, I got kicked out of highschool by the way. I was smart before that. Then I became depressed after being out of school, they gave me ssris. Even worse, lost all motivation and almost ended my life. I wonder why all these doctors love serotonin and melatonin so much, these make people feel worse in almost every case. Dopamine is what we need 🤦♂️🤦♂️ and then they say it has nothing to do with the drug, just like you said. They trick you.
@@oldmancigar8865 I had no idea melatonin lowers dopamine. You just taught me something new. They've been marketing melatonin as a sleep aid for years.
@@blackflyingfox3365 yes they gave it to me as a kid and told me it was safe. I also forgot to mention, I was also prescribed risperidone because I had anger issues from taking ssris (yes i know its insane, they gave me a drug, the drug made me crazy and they prescribed a similar drug to try help me) I was smart enough to fake taking all of the pills. I never took a single one. My parents were forcing me to take it and they watched me, I put it in the corner of my mouth and spat it into tissues. Good thing did that, maybe risperidone would mess me up even more.
I'm 16 and I have PSSD from fluoxetine, I took it for 2 weeks last year just before I turned 15 in order to help mild depression, hated the way it made me feel within 2 weeks, I felt more suicidal, so I quit fast. Ended up with severe anhedonia and numb penis. The numb penis has gotten better since last year but orgasm is still blunted (feels the same as taking a piss so masturbation is pointless) and I find it very hard to enjoy anything at all, it's all boring to me. This whole world is boring, it feels like a joke in a way. I haven't even lost my V card and I have PSSD, and I no longer want to lose it. Shit. What's the point if it doesn't feel good?
Sorry to hear. Please see a medical professional. Medical causes should be ruled out and if deprrssion is present then that should be adequately treated
@@PsychiatrySimplified all of these psych meds are very toxic and should be used last but primary care is giving them out without even doing blood work or asking about possible behavior or personality which would indicate underlying conditions, please help us with a video on how to treat all of the mentioned effects with natural substances or something, i heard also the gut and microbiome is affected big time as well and some recovery with a FMT
I honestly thought SSRIs would blunt my emotions but they didn't. Im still crazy emotional, but mostly good ones. They also helped me realise that a lot of people are boring 😂
We have a group of more than 170 people from all around the world having post finasteride syndrome. (Finasteride/dutesteride for hair loss/alopecia)The side effects are also almost same as pssd, loss of lobido, no sexual desire, depression, brain fog, i am also victim. Ruined our life. Dr. Melcangi is doing research but only for pfs.
Sorry to hear. I've mentioned it in the video along with isotretinoin - one wonders how SSRIs, isotretinoin and finasteride with significantly different mechanisms of action lead to similar symptoms.
@@PsychiatrySimplified Sir i am presenting two facts :- 1) i took finasteride for a month, and quit as i felt loss of libido, sexual sides, damaged body hair quality and digestive side effects. After 3 months of quitting the drug, i suddenly felt 100% recovered for 7 days and again crashed though i never had touch the drug after quitting at the first time. I always wonder how it can be possible? All my hormone test are normal.(LH,FSH,SHBG,TESTESTORONE,DHT,PROLACTINE,B12,D, THYROID, ESTROGEN ETC) 2) another one guy took just one pill(finasteride), yes only one pill and he has been suffering from permanent side effect, since may be 2 year or more. Females have also same sides and sexual sides is common(after ssris etc), so the thing here is not with hormonal isuee, but may be with the GABA receptor or any bounding agent ? I don't know exactly.
@@darpat5117 thanks for sharing that. It certainly is a mystery. yes it might not be the usual neurotransmitter aspects as those take time. One possibility is the receptor channel effect - transient receptor potential discussed or neurotoxicity. Certainly a lot isn't known.
One of the biggest mysteries of PSSD is what the pathophysiology is. If we could figure out what the biological cause of the disorder is, we could cure the condition. But the fundamental mechanism unfortunately remains a mystery.
Really wish I hadn’t been on these hellish drugs since childhood, would have been nice to know about this before I could truly consent. No one can tell me that an child can consent to this.
always everyone just talking and preaching to the choir but is anyone gonna work on a cure???? had this for more than a decade from these stupid meds big pharma make.
A lot of people have recovered, it's hard to see the statistics of this because it's not documented. I believe that it's a 60% perm, 40% recover. Most people don't wake up one day and feel recovered, it's like an overtime thing. Everyday a bit better. This is why you may not hear people say they recovered, because they're still making progress as time goes on and they don't know when they will be back to 100%.
@@baka3489 they gave me the lowest possible dose. But it hit me super hard, like a train.. I had lots of anxiety, sweating, palpations.. So I stopped the meds after 4 days without tapering. I had low libido while taking them but in the weeks after stopping, it slowly went away, completely. I still haven't recovered
I actually had an MDMA induced long term comedown. Turned out my HPA axis was totally messed up, eventually I got on TRT and it solved the problem. I did not however have emotional blunting or very severe sexual issues (just low libido) in the LTC.
Hi does this work for women also? I too suffered from MDMA long term and suffered with bad depression & anxiety after. I’m on fluoxetine now but my sex drive is non existent, I have been on them for 2 years and want to come off but scared of falling into depression again
@@simb2603 Well for women it wouldn't be TRT but you can test for HPA dysfunction like checking pregnenolone, cortisol, DHEA-S etc. In the begininng of my long term comedown my pregnenolone was completely shot
Hi, I would like to know if one pill (50 mg) can cause permanent sexual disfunction? Side effect such as low libido was felt but I am worried it may be permanent.
Persistent SD is rare - sexual dysfunction with SSRIs is more common. Persistent post SSRI sexual dysfunction is SD that persists after all treatments have been tried. For many the range of treatments aren't implemented.
Finasteride and dutasteride only cause ED if you let your estrogen get too high. Since they decrease conversion of testosterone to DHT, they increase conversion of test to estrogen. Anyone who takes a 5-alpha reductase inhibitor like finasteride/dutasteride should also take an aromatase inhibitor like aromasin, anastrozole, or letrozole, to decrease conversion of test to both DHT and estrogen at the same time
The finasteride induced stuff is probably more related to allopregnanolone than anything else. By inhibiting 5AR you inhibit the conversion of progesterone to allopregnanolone and allo has effects at GABA-A. DHT itself also has effects at this receptor. In fact allopreganolone may be involved for PSSD too.
These drugs have ruined my life, you feel buried alive Sexually, everything is deaf with me! No doctor is willing to help me or believe it's a real nightmare!!! 24 And my life is broken.
Have you tried anything that will increase your dopamine. Bupropion , agomelatine. That may bring back you sexual function. I’m on agomelatine now. So far nothing much has happened. I still don’t feel normal or back to how I used to be before anti depressants. My mum took it upon herself to drug me at a young age instead of getting me out of the abusive unsafe home environment
@@andre.s7224 I hope it gets better for us I really do. I’m on something called aglomelatine. It increases your dopamine. Maybe try something that increases dopamine and not seratonin.
Bupropion can be helpful for anxiety if the anxiety is in the context of depression / ADHD. Generally bupropion can worsen anxiety if it’s part of hyperarousal. See the video on anxiety vs hyperarousal
I’m on agomelatine. Will it bring back anything? I have been ssris for years and yes it takes away your sex drive and even attraction to the opposite gender. My mum put me on sertraline at 16 to deal with my depression instead of me leaving my abusive home environment. She numbed out the symptoms and not the cause. I have never been the same person since. And at 22 going on 23 I’m concerned I will never get my old self back. I recently came of the sertraline in August this year. After years of being on it. After coming of it my anxiety got so bad that I had to go back on anti depressants now I’m on aglomelatine and I still feel really abnormal and not myself anymore. I feel like what these drugs have done to me is criminal and I’m so angry that I got put on mild altering drugs at such a young age I could barely consent. I’m now a drugged up zombie and half of who I used to be.
Brother, you should look into what is called Post Finasteride Syndrome (PFS) as well. You have been chemically castrated and the drugs they prescribed to you have damaged you on an epigenetic level. But there is hope for you. Unfortunately you will NEVER be cured by the same people that did this to you in the first place! There is no “approved” cure for what was done to you. You were mislead and poisoned and it damaged your genes. You will never find a doctor who will take you seriously or give you the answers or tools that you need to recover. And I’m here to tell you that I have experienced it too and I healed myself. It took many years but I learned the hard way that it is possible to take your life back and heal yourself. I teach others how to heal themselves and after years of trial and error I figured out how to reclaim my old self and I saved my life. I can help you do in 4 months what took me 6 years to finally figure out. Contact me at (732) 682-6276 or my email zacl2010@gmail.com. I devote my life now to helping other men get their life back! Let’s get you back to being YOU!
@@PsychiatrySimplified ruclips.net/video/Wo4-6VBBNu0/видео.html Thank you Dr Sanil Rege, making me tear up a little. Here’s another young guys story similar to mine but in Spanish ruclips.net/video/pozmdbh_AYM/видео.html
Depends on the person. Some people have it forever, some people have it for 1 year and it goes away, some people have it for 10 years and it goes away. It's a russion roulette
@bullet P My PSSD went away in the past few months, or at least all the sexual symptoms are greatly reduced my libido is high and my O feels normal, im not sure if it feels worse compared to before but it's better than the numbness I used to have. Emotional blunting still comes and goes but I do experience emotion now. i took ssris from 2021 july to around august, and quit. symptoms improved summer 2022 and towards the end a lot of things improved. but as i said im not sure, sometimes i feel like i've been crashed again, like mood wise, libido gets crashed less often though than the blunting.
@bullet P So here's the order on me from what improved the most to what improved the least, most is the top least is bottom: 1. Libido 2. Sensation 3. Emotions 4. Disconnection feeling (This started ever since i first took ssris and has been a reoccurring thing, occasionally I just feel disconnected from everyone else, or the world in general, and feel like doing nothing.)
@@oldmancigar8865 brother I too 7 days 2021 SEP only erection problem came then I stopped waited for months went to police training now 2022 mar months I got worse effect so Dr prescribed me fluoxetine to take I don't know what to do
think my doc tried to render me impotent by prescribing anti anxiety med, went for a UTI and high BP, got the BP meds but the anti anxiety was not needed, threw them in the trash after seeing this and the comments, going to find another doctor also.
This literally happened to me, and how I got deceived into psych meds without even being told they were psych meds. Went in for BP meds, I was given some BP meds that also tamper with your brain, then they sneaked out the BP portion and was left off with just anxiety meds. Absolutely disgusting.
@@juanzavala9023 yeah I took half a lexapro this morning and had the squirts for a good hour or two this morning, that with reading all these comments.....things went straight into the trash, I'll manage my anxiety some other way, castration isn't an option.
Looking forward to the class action lawsuit. The drug companies owe us. Especially given the fact that we were uninformed that PSSD was even a possibility. I'd have dealt with my anxiety in other ways.
Totally agree! These prescribers need to be in prison!
@@yes55504 chemical castration
How are you now? Signs of recovery?
I have PSSD. My libido is still high but I can’t get erect without Prozac. I’ve been off of it for 6 years
This will turn out to be a huge scandal. In absolute numbers, many people are affected by this. Also, lots of people don't know they have it since it can affect only one facet of sexuality (libido, arousal, erection/lubrication, sensitivity, loss of pleasure during orgasm) or they are told that their loss of sexuality is due to anxiety/depression. This is why the new diagnostic guideline is so important.
Before doctors prescribe SSRIs/SNRIs, informed consent is what should be practiced. This condition literally ruins a lot of lives. Research is urgently needed.
Thanks so much for spreading awareness! ❤
If someone doesn’t know they have it, that’d be crazy. I knew it as soon as I couldn’t feel my genitals or partner in me. When you can’t get aroused by anything or even FEEL love or romance then you know somethings wrong.
It’s the most bizarre feeling and I wouldn’t wish it on anyone.
@@pinklady1812 There are cases in which everything is fine except for the ability to get (physically) aroused. This is still a form of PSSD and I mean these people who probably won't realize that they have it because it's too mild.
But yes, I totally agree with you that the impact on quality of life is tremendous in severe cases.
Thank you for sharing your personal experience
@@pinklady1812 A lot of people who have already gone to doctors were told that their difficulties were the result of something else and have moved on. After hormone treatment didn't work, I was told that the numbness was the result of my circumcision and there was nothing that could be done. Granted I never 'lost' feeling as I have nothing to compare it to, I was on SSRIs from the ages of 9 to 18 (I am now 36). Most people who have it likely haven't heard about it yet.
I just found out I have Cowper issue I wonder if this is responsible .
I really wish I didn’t take SSRI, it was so not worth it ..
Absolutely under recognized. Not a single of the four doctors who either recommended or prescribed it warned me about this possibility. I took SNRIs for years and over time lost more and more interest in sex, when I always had a high libido and high desire. I honestly think my being a woman contributed to the lack of warning, since they probably assume it’s normal for women not to want sex.
I’ve been without SNRIs for a year. Being generous, I’ve gained back maybe 20% of my former desire.
My new psychiatrist who I saw for ADHD-after I told her I’m concerned about dead libido due to my history with SNRIs-told me that it’s so common that SNRI/SSRIs reduce sex drive, that they often prescribe them for people with extreme sexual desire and behavior (the kind that interferes with daily life). I was horrified. No one warned me of this.
Hey! We have a lot in common: I'm also a woman, I have stopped taking antidepressants one year ago, I used to have high libido and desire, I also have ADHD, and obviously PSSD. Have you tried anything that helped improving your libido/genital sensation/orgasm intensity? I've tried damiana, but it only affected lubrification which is the least of my concerns for now since I have very low genital sensation and very mild orgasms compared to how it was before I took antidepressants.
@@extraterrestrialbug5095 hi! I’m sorry you’re also experiencing this. I have not found success. I refuse to try Addyi which is another psychosomatic and was barely better than placebo in trials. I’ve treated my hormones several times, all normal. I even got a prescription cream that is supposed to help bring blood to the area but it hasnt done much, if anything at all. Best I can do for desire is read erotic romance. It helps a bit short term.
I wasn't warned when being prescribed stimulants either. And I'm a man. I think they don't know or care honestly.
My psychiatrist explicitly said she doesn’t believe in PSSD.
Russia, Saint Petersburg, July 2024.
I was prescribed escitalopram for the second time in my life, but now I’m more informed than I used to be.
I won’t take it.
I prescribed SSRIs just before the onset of puberty. For years, I was led upon what is called a "medical misadventure", in which doctors tossed drugs at my brain like lawn darts to treat depression and ADHD. My depression turned out to be not chemical, but environmental--I was a lonely child with few friends in classes above what was appropriate for my emotional development. The scars those drugs left in me continue to impact my romantic and social life to this day.
Today, decades later, I have just learned about PSSD. I'm shocked at how little information exists or interest there has been in talking about this issue. Why is there so little information available?
Thank you for discussing this--hopefully this will be the start of more to come
Sorry to hear. Sexual function with antidepressants is being discussed more and newer antidepressants developed have focused on avoiding this SE. But it's still something that is not asked enough. Wish you well.
I could write that exact same comment
Did SSRIs stunt your height by any chance?
Brother, you should look into what is called Post Finasteride Syndrome (PFS) as well. You have been chemically castrated and the drugs they prescribed to you have damaged you on an epigenetic level. But there is hope for you. Unfortunately you will NEVER be cured by the same people that did this to you in the first place! There is no “approved” cure for what was done to you. You were mislead and poisoned and it damaged your genes. You will never find a doctor who will take you seriously or give you the answers or tools that you need to recover. And I’m here to tell you that I have experienced it too and I healed myself. It took many years but I learned the hard way that it is possible to take your life back and heal yourself. I teach others how to heal themselves and after years of trial and error I figured out how to reclaim my old self and I saved my life. I can help you do in 4 months what took me 6 years to finally figure out. Contact me at (732) 682-6276 or my email zacl2010@gmail.com. I devote my life now to helping other men get their life back! Let’s get you back to being YOU!
This is a huge step for bringing much needed awareness to the pssd community. Looking forward to this discussion!
I can't thank you enough for making this video and addressing what most Doctors will not acknowledge. There are thousands of us worldwide suffering from this, and probably thousands more who just think they are broken because their doctors have shut them down or told it must be this or that.
This condition is far greater than the sexual dysfunction.....our entire lives have been severely disrupted/ruined.
Thank you again Dr for doing this.....but please don't forget about us. We need Dr's like you to be our voice!
Thank you for your feedback
I can go about my life free to have sex at my pleasure. Jobama not so much.
@@PsychiatrySimplified Hi Dr Sanil Rege, Can you please explain to me what causes PSSD in some patients whilst other patients who take SSRI's return to previous sexual function once discontinuing?
@@mo87m we don’t know the exact reasons. In the video we discuss some of these. Hormonal , immunological , neurological aspects are some aspects mentioned. It may be a pre existing vulnerability but we don’t know what that is exactly.
@@PsychiatrySimplified Thank you for replying. Do you know how approximately how many people worldwide are prescribed clomipramine.
I have it for 3 years now and it's worsening
SSRIS caused PSSD which drove my granddaughter to suicide one month after her 21st birthday. BIG PHARMA shrugs.
I'm so sorry for your loss 😔
SSRIs and floroquinolones are poison
That's terrible:( RIP
How long she used the drugs
@@PiyariBegum-ke1lp 18 months zoloft
Sir, Thank you for shedding light on this horrible disorder (PSSD) .
I wish this issue gained more strength here in Brazil, many people are going through this here, but most psychiatrists are unaware of the PSSD. 😢
Sorry to hear. The ssexual side effects are being discussed more and now some agents have minimal or do not lead to sexual side effects that should be considered.
De qual estado você é Lucas?
@@gabrielyfernandes8152Do Ceará Gabi.
Lucas. Aqui ngn sabe sobre isso. Eu me arrependo tanto de ter tomado o pondera(antidepressivo) e agora acho q vou ter q tomar tadalafila ou Viagra ou qualquer merda pra ereção para sempre
@luiscruzsta Cara só 6 meses após, da pra saber se é PSSD, caso contrário pode Retornar.
All the potential side effects are reported as though they only exist in tandem with the duration on the medication, never as post-use of the medication. I cant believe this is not talked about more. To think that taking a med could permanently chemically castrate you is terrifying.
Thank you SO much for making a video about this. I’m one of the ones who’ve fallen victim to this horrible condition. And to get some recognition goes a long way.
I hope more researchers and scientists look into this condition. I’ve had it for 2 years and it’s been tough day by day to live with my emotional blunting and sexual dysfunction. Compared to depression, I’d rather have my depression.
Sorry to hear
How long have you taken the antidepressant?
How can we get out of this hell?
Thats the neat part, you cant.
PSSD destroyd my life!
Sorry to hear.
Same :-/
@@PsychiatrySimplified how can I bring the pleasure back when I orgasm?
This dr here won‘t actually tell you anything, he says PSSD exists, congrats that’s the first line of Google…. Of course it is also clear that he wouldn’t just know sh*t, it’s a complex problem and once damage is done that seems to be it (ap 2023)
Brother, you should look into what is called Post Finasteride Syndrome (PFS) as well. You have been chemically castrated and the drugs they prescribed to you have damaged you on an epigenetic level. But there is hope for you. Unfortunately you will NEVER be cured by the same people that did this to you in the first place! There is no “approved” cure for what was done to you. You were mislead and poisoned and it damaged your genes. You will never find a doctor who will take you seriously or give you the answers or tools that you need to recover. And I’m here to tell you that I have experienced it too and I healed myself. It took many years but I learned the hard way that it is possible to take your life back and heal yourself. I teach others how to heal themselves and after years of trial and error I figured out how to reclaim my old self and I saved my life. I can help you do in 4 months what took me 6 years to finally figure out. Contact me at (732) 682-6276 or my email zacl2010@gmail.com. I devote my life now to helping other men get their life back! Let’s get you back to being YOU!
Amazing video, thank you for making this , it's very much appreciated. We need PSSD to go viral to spread awareness
Thank you for your feedback 🙏🏼
Brother, you should look into what is called Post Finasteride Syndrome (PFS) as well. You have been chemically castrated and the drugs they prescribed to you have damaged you on an epigenetic level. But there is hope for you. Unfortunately you will NEVER be cured by the same people that did this to you in the first place! There is no “approved” cure for what was done to you. You were mislead and poisoned and it damaged your genes. You will never find a doctor who will take you seriously or give you the answers or tools that you need to recover. And I’m here to tell you that I have experienced it too and I healed myself. It took many years but I learned the hard way that it is possible to take your life back and heal yourself. I teach others how to heal themselves and after years of trial and error I figured out how to reclaim my old self and I saved my life. I can help you do in 4 months what took me 6 years to finally figure out. Contact me at (732) 682-6276 or my email zacl2010@gmail.com. I devote my life now to helping other men get their life back! Let’s get you back to being YOU!
I recently started taking sertraline. After 3 days i found it difficult to become aroused. I could get erect but i physically couldn't ejaculate. I looked into PSSD over the next few days and was honestly terrified. I stopped taking sertraline after 6 days. That was 3 days ago and THANKFULLY I've felt my libido increase and have been able to masturbate twice successfully since stopping treatment. My doctor did not make me aware of PSSD in any way before prescribing me the medication. I will seek an alternative treatment to my depression but it will NEVER be antidepressants again. Thank you for the video. This needs to be common knowledge
Pssd is underreported
Yes. Thank you for this video. I was on Wellbutrin at one point, but the one that really caused me issues was Sertraline. Anorgasmia, ED, decreased libido, and I have honestly never been the same. I took it when I was 19 for about a year and a half, and I feel like it truly ruined parts of me I worry will never come back. Sadly. It has been 5 years, and I wish I had never taken Sertraline (Zoloft).
These drugs are just pure neurotoxins. Crazy world to allow this madness.
this is the saddest thing, young men who are already depressed getting robbed of their sexuality. have you tried anything that has helped?
@@JA-gz6cj thankfully my depression and anxiety have never returned to a level of needing to get on hard medications since that time 5-6 years ago, but I am extremely hesitant to try any medications with extreme side effects, because it's not worth it.
@@therudimentroom yea I was thinking of trying Wellbutrin to see if it would help, but then I read that it actually caused PSSD for some people
Almost same as me.I exposed myself different kind of stimuluses and used different types of things.Computer games, gingko biloba, trying to listening music as old times, pushing myself to using my cognitive abilites harder, trying to imagine sexual contents and resting and thinking about my internal emotions,values and trying to understand and classifying them.And maybe time make me near as my old self.Except ; not anhedonic but less hedonic orgasms, decreased libido maybe i'm 26 now and im not in my late teens. Even if i didn't take sertralin i couldn't get enough pleasure from orgasm idk.I was totally apathic but i tried to feel even the smallest emotion.And i tried to repeating it.And after many years some real life experiments made me feel raw anxiety.And i tried to manipulate this raw feelings to positive ones.Maybe i sound so meaningless, goofy but endlessly trying this analogies gave me positive result.
I think one of the main reasons of apathy and sexual dysfunction is you are no longer the same person who you were before starting ssri.Roughly when you quit it your mind,brain can not adapt the new situation.And trying to mix the person,character,emotion before ssri and in ssri.And this makes huge cognitive dissonance and apathy.Trying to reorder my values by time helped me the most.
This is a crime
People need to read side effects and they need to be comfortable with the risk, for any medication.
Doctors also need to be honest about these side effects.
I tested positive for Erectile dysfunction after having a Horrible outbreak, and felt the same way you described in your interview. Listening to you share your overcome experience gave me the glim of hope i needed to hear. i am glad that there is people like you out there who just want to help other people who are struggling with the same issues. Your words gave me the courage I needed to hear today to know that it's ok. I can still be myself and now I'm enjoy my life the way I am supposed to. It is a blessing i came across you Igho Channel
Brother, you should look into what is called Post Finasteride Syndrome (PFS) as well. You have been chemically castrated and the drugs they prescribed to you have damaged you on an epigenetic level. But there is hope for you. Unfortunately you will NEVER be cured by the same people that did this to you in the first place! There is no “approved” cure for what was done to you. You were mislead and poisoned and it damaged your genes. You will never find a doctor who will take you seriously or give you the answers or tools that you need to recover. And I’m here to tell you that I have experienced it too and I healed myself. It took many years but I learned the hard way that it is possible to take your life back and heal yourself. I teach others how to heal themselves and after years of trial and error I figured out how to reclaim my old self and I saved my life. I can help you do in 4 months what took me 6 years to finally figure out. Contact me at (732) 682-6276 or my email zacl2010@gmail.com. I devote my life now to helping other men get their life back! Let’s get you back to being YOU!
Thanks for the video and for bringing awareness. It's too late for us but at least it can save other people.
yes, this condition is permament, you will never recover, fuck other people, we already dead
It cannot save other people there is no way i could have found this without suffering through the problem these psycatric drugs should be completely banned 🚫 or given only after a concent that this to this could happen ... Damn
@@sooryanshnarayan8thc324 Well I found this video mate and I haven't started taking SSRI yet so it's saved me!
Brother, you should look into what is called Post Finasteride Syndrome (PFS) as well. You have been chemically castrated and the drugs they prescribed to you have damaged you on an epigenetic level. But there is hope for you. Unfortunately you will NEVER be cured by the same people that did this to you in the first place! There is no “approved” cure for what was done to you. You were mislead and poisoned and it damaged your genes. You will never find a doctor who will take you seriously or give you the answers or tools that you need to recover. And I’m here to tell you that I have experienced it too and I healed myself. It took many years but I learned the hard way that it is possible to take your life back and heal yourself. I teach others how to heal themselves and after years of trial and error I figured out how to reclaim my old self and I saved my life. I can help you do in 4 months what took me 6 years to finally figure out. Contact me at (732) 682-6276 or my email zacl2010@gmail.com. I devote my life now to helping other men get their life back! Let’s get you back to being YOU!
Thank you soooo much for addressing this topic. All of the doctors we have been to know nothing about this. Thanks especially for addressing possible treatments. Now if we can only find a doctor that will address the issues.
Brother, you should look into what is called Post Finasteride Syndrome (PFS) as well. You have been chemically castrated and the drugs they prescribed to you have damaged you on an epigenetic level. But there is hope for you. Unfortunately you will NEVER be cured by the same people that did this to you in the first place! There is no “approved” cure for what was done to you. You were mislead and poisoned and it damaged your genes. You will never find a doctor who will take you seriously or give you the answers or tools that you need to recover. And I’m here to tell you that I have experienced it too and I healed myself. It took many years but I learned the hard way that it is possible to take your life back and heal yourself. I teach others how to heal themselves and after years of trial and error I figured out how to reclaim my old self and I saved my life. I can help you do in 4 months what took me 6 years to finally figure out. Contact me at (732) 682-6276 or my email zacl2010@gmail.com. I devote my life now to helping other men get their life back! Let’s get you back to being YOU!
Worth watching
I see number of patients in opd post ssri sexual dysfunction
Beautifully explained the MOA
excellent
Thank you for your feedback.
Brother, you should look into what is called Post Finasteride Syndrome (PFS) as well. You have been chemically castrated and the drugs they prescribed to you have damaged you on an epigenetic level. But there is hope for you. Unfortunately you will NEVER be cured by the same people that did this to you in the first place! There is no “approved” cure for what was done to you. You were mislead and poisoned and it damaged your genes. You will never find a doctor who will take you seriously or give you the answers or tools that you need to recover. And I’m here to tell you that I have experienced it too and I healed myself. It took many years but I learned the hard way that it is possible to take your life back and heal yourself. I teach others how to heal themselves and after years of trial and error I figured out how to reclaim my old self and I saved my life. I can help you do in 4 months what took me 6 years to finally figure out. Contact me at (732) 682-6276 or my email zacl2010@gmail.com. I devote my life now to helping other men get their life back! Let’s get you back to being YOU!
Oh wow there’s a doctor that knows instead of turning the cheek for the next pay check, dang relief. We need more publicity, so many lives being destroyed because of the lack of research. I’m sure we’d appreciate psychiatry more if it did more to be more innovative and forward thinking, the medical field is just lacking in new technology and research. I’d love to participate in research to save people’s lives, I currently suffer with minor sexual issues after trying an SSRI and an antipsychotic for 2 months, im just really disappointed but I’m at the point now I’d rather die trying than die giving up on this topic.
Sorry to hear. Hope things get better for you. There is more recognition of this condition and sexual side effects of antideorssants in general
Brother, you should look into what is called Post Finasteride Syndrome (PFS) as well. You have been chemically castrated and the drugs they prescribed to you have damaged you on an epigenetic level. But there is hope for you. Unfortunately you will NEVER be cured by the same people that did this to you in the first place! There is no “approved” cure for what was done to you. You were mislead and poisoned and it damaged your genes. You will never find a doctor who will take you seriously or give you the answers or tools that you need to recover. And I’m here to tell you that I have experienced it too and I healed myself. It took many years but I learned the hard way that it is possible to take your life back and heal yourself. I teach others how to heal themselves and after years of trial and error I figured out how to reclaim my old self and I saved my life. I can help you do in 4 months what took me 6 years to finally figure out. Contact me at (732) 682-6276 or my email zacl2010@gmail.com. I devote my life now to helping other men get their life back! Let’s get you back to being YOU!
Thank you for doing this video. I have had PSSD for 8 years now after an SSRI was prescribed for PMS. I can categorically state that it has ruined my life- nothing has helped. As PSSD was only recognised in 2019, I am one of the numerous people told that my sexual dysfunction was just 'one of those things' and that there was no possible cause for my genital numbness. Within 48 hours of taking the SSRI my genitals went numb. I continued taking the SSRI for 18 months, even doubling the dose. Interestingly, every time I tried to talk to my GP SSRI side effects, even common ones such as weight gain, I was told that the drug was unlikely to be to blame.
SSRIs are a very well used class of drugs, so it is a spectacular failure of pharmacovigilance for such a devastating side effect to be ignored for over 3 decades. Every doctor who told their injured patients that the SSRI was not the cause should hang their head in shame- they are part of the reason it took so long for PSSD to be recognised- adverse drug events were not being recorded. I find it ridiculous that SSRIs are a) used as first choice drugs and b) dished out by GPs as a panacea given their horrific side effects, temporary and permanent, and awful withdrawal. I only had access to kinder antidepressants with negligible side effects once I went private after my chemical castration. It was too late by then.
I also am not particularly excited by the emerging research into PSSD: finding out which drugs give tiny improvements that are clinically insignificant does not help anyone. We need to find the cause of the genital numbness, we need a test for PSSD and we need to quantify the scale of the problem. Psychiatry has jumped from 'PSSD is not a thing' to 'PSSD is very rare' rather too seamlessly. No research has ever been done to establish how many people truly recover sexually from taking SSRIs.
I’m so sorry to hear. Were agents such as bupropion or dopaminergic agents trialled ?
@@PsychiatrySimplified I have tried tadalafil which improves the physiological response. I have also tried bupropion, vortioxetine and agomelatine. The latter 2 did nothing whatsoever. Bupropion maybe improved things 5% by improving libido, but I still had no sexual sensation or sexual pleasure.
Unfortunately, many doctors have some very strange views about female sexual function and insinuate that there are other 'benefits' of having sex besides sexual pleasure. They started waffling on about 'intimacy' instead. I don't think it has occurred to these doctors that PSSD destroys the feeling of intimacy, so all sexual contact is cringeworthy. I get the impression that they think that PSSD is somehow not as bad for women. I fully expect the research into PSSD to be conducted on men and women will be an afterthought.
@@sarahbrowne5712 flibanserin is a recent one approved for women. Has that been discussed? Uncertain whether it targets all aspects of the sexual cycle though?
@@PsychiatrySimplified This has never been discussed. Is it available in the UK?
@@sarahbrowne5712 I checked it’s not. Here is an article with range of options psychscenehub.com/psychinsights/sexual-dysfunction-with-antidepressants/
I took fluvoxamine for just 7 days and landed in sexual dysfunction. It’s been 9 months now still no recovery. Please spread awareness. These SSRI’s must be neurotoxic and prescribing SSRI’s should be considered as crime
Yo igual tu también tienes los testiculos fríos???
De cuantos dosis tomastes???
Have you improved
@randomcosmoswave No i haven’t improved. I have landed in permanent sexual dysfunction (PSSD)
Hii.. bro r y from india
Thank you for posting this video! This condition really needs to be researched into so treatment can be developed!
Yes absolutely.
Been suffering from this since 2018 and nothing's changed. Don't really know what to do at this point, felt like I tried everything.
So sorry to hear.
Which medication did you take that caused it
Brother, you should look into what is called Post Finasteride Syndrome (PFS) as well. You have been chemically castrated and the drugs they prescribed to you have damaged you on an epigenetic level. But there is hope for you. Unfortunately you will NEVER be cured by the same people that did this to you in the first place! There is no “approved” cure for what was done to you. You were mislead and poisoned and it damaged your genes. You will never find a doctor who will take you seriously or give you the answers or tools that you need to recover. And I’m here to tell you that I have experienced it too and I healed myself. It took many years but I learned the hard way that it is possible to take your life back and heal yourself. I teach others how to heal themselves and after years of trial and error I figured out how to reclaim my old self and I saved my life. I can help you do in 4 months what took me 6 years to finally figure out. Contact me at (732) 682-6276 or my email zacl2010@gmail.com. I devote my life now to helping other men get their life back! Let’s get you back to being YOU!
THESE EFFECTS NEVER END
Fuck me.
I just want to say thanks for bringing awareness
Thank you. I have been anogasmia for 30 years. Constantly complained to different gp’s and been ignored. I knew it started when I went on SSRI’s in my 20’s but I didn’t understand why I still have the issue in my 50’s.
Sorry to hear. Other conditions such a female orgasmic disorder can also contribute to anorgasmia. An assessment by a doctor specialising in sexual disorders or a gynaecologist can assist.
@@PsychiatrySimplified I have the right language to get them to listen to me now. It should make a difference.
Why dont our doctors warn us about this? I watched a video in which the host said they should be warning us about this but ive never been warned 😅
PT-141 is the only thing that works for me with PSSD. An absolute godsend, and I employ everyone to research it.
That is interesting. Thanks for sharing. Make or female? Prescribed?
For which specific symptoms. This would really help in learning and ofcourse help others.
@@PsychiatrySimplified Male, 24 yo. Can be prescribed but I just order it myself through peptide websites. In my case, I have sexual desire but no arousal. PDE-5 inhibitors really don’t have an effect. I do sub-q injections of the pt-141, from my research the nasal spray isn’t very effective.
I had depression prior to these drugs I had no issues with ED. Many Doctors will not listen. The problem is laser surgery regarding genitals is not covered by most health care insurance. It's classified as cosmetics and is expensive. The health care system is corrupt . I told my former psychiatrist about trazodon. He said that has serotonin too he said it can cause seizures. Yet so can all antidepressants. My psychiatrist was arrogant. Wanted his way did not listen ignored my complaints. He was a bully
Pharma must have tested the medicine before putting it on the market. They must have known the side effects.
Those criminals must be sued.
They know the side effects and that's the whole point why they prescribe them. It's all a giant scam to kill off and sterilize people in western countries who fall for their lies. I've had doctors try offer me anti-depressants and after doing my research I have no intention of taking them. I'll stick to weed and having a sex drive!
The majority of psychiatric drug trials are conducted and commissioned by the pharmaceutical industry or those who have extensive ties with them. This industry has a long history burying negative results, and of manipulating research to highlight positive outcomes.
I appreciate you Dr Sanil and I hope your channel grows you're a blessing sir.
The tendency of SSRI’s to cause sexual dysfunction is one of the most terrible, serious, and unacceptable flaws of modern medicine.
The entire point of giving an antidepressant to someone is to make them feel better, and to reduce emotional turmoil. But causing serious sexual dysfunction is an awful side effect because it significantly reduces the patients ability to have healthy intimate relationships and to feel sexual pleasure, and is completely at odds with the goal of improving mental health and someone’s satisfaction with their lives.
The fact that SSRI’s cause sexual dysfunction in 50% of patients who receive them, and can cause severe long term sexual dysfunction in rare cases of PSSD is genuinely abhorrent, and makes me wish that these medications were removed from general practice decades ago.
Looking into the price side, these SSRI tablets doesn't cost much more than other medications so it's not a big business. Also why the governments allowing pharma companies and psychiatrists make havoc on sexual life of it's citizens.
@@sarathua1976 I’m not sure Sarah, I think the financial conflict of interest from pharmaceutical companies is a huge reason why these SSRI’s became so popular in the first place- a giant marketing campaign to make money, even though an honest look at the data suggests that SSRI’s are barely better then placebo for mild-moderate mental health problems and have serious side effects
I wouldn’t be surprised if sexual dysfunction was intentionally underplayed by these companies to sell more medicine initially- it’s genuinely baffling and unethical and unacceptable that as a society we tolerate this.
@@alexanderscott3404 But Alexander we have various agencies like US FDA, European Medicines Agency, and various national institutions that are self-proclaimed to safeguard the interests of its citizens like health and safety which then allows pharma companies to indulge in such a horrendous crime. A person who received SSRI medication during his/her teens will suffer from massive problems in adulthood, even well functioning adults become sexually dysfunctional on receiving the SSRI treatment. So SSRI is actually anti citizen, thus anti national. What a world this is. We can understand state of agencies in developing world, most of them will be corrupted, why developed countries' agencies allowing this.
@@sarathua1976 I 100% agree with you, I was a bit unclear about the way you worded your first comment but I completely agree with what you are saying
Totally agree with you all. We are running into a public health emergency. It's unbelievable that such a catastrophe is possible in medicine in 2022. This renders me speechless.
It is real I have gotten this took a year off my life deep depression from pssd brought me to a very dark place
Sorry to hear
Brother, you should look into what is called Post Finasteride Syndrome (PFS) as well. You have been chemically castrated and the drugs they prescribed to you have damaged you on an epigenetic level. But there is hope for you. Unfortunately you will NEVER be cured by the same people that did this to you in the first place! There is no “approved” cure for what was done to you. You were mislead and poisoned and it damaged your genes. You will never find a doctor who will take you seriously or give you the answers or tools that you need to recover. And I’m here to tell you that I have experienced it too and I healed myself. It took many years but I learned the hard way that it is possible to take your life back and heal yourself. I teach others how to heal themselves and after years of trial and error I figured out how to reclaim my old self and I saved my life. I can help you do in 4 months what took me 6 years to finally figure out. Contact me at (732) 682-6276 or my email zacl2010@gmail.com. I devote my life now to helping other men get their life back! Let’s get you back to being YOU!
I took my last escitalopram pill on 2020 Dec and from there my withdrawal effects began after one month and got to its extreme. After 17 months of utter torture my side-effects finally got lil better.
The side-effects I suffered from:
Headache
Brain-zaps
Hairfall
Brittle hair
Scalp tingling during sleep
Dry skin
Anhedonia
Brain-fog
Cognitive disability
Walking without balance
Insomnia (2 hours max sleep)
Zero motivation
Suicidal thoughts
Numb genitals
10% libido
Delayed ejaculation
Erectile dysfunction
Muscle twitches
Weight gain
GERD
Extreme sweating
Heart palpitations
Now my remaining side-effects are:
Mild erectile dysfunction
Mild genital numbness
6 hours sleep max
Weak libido
Low motivation
Weak memory
Groin pain
Hope my remaining side-effects escalate and hope for every sufferer a speedy recovery. 😗
Iam 15 months off, 3pills of escitalopram, no improvements, please tell me when you started to feel improvments
Sorry to hear. Thank you for sharing. Hope you continue to improve.
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After 17 months I noticed recovery and it is slow. I never tried anything and waited for time to heal every other issue and it worked for me but needs patience.
Dont risk taking other antidepressant, alcohol or any other herb for treatment.
That's bad, how much was your dose?
@@jimmyisherenow
10mg for 3 months, again 5mg for 3 months
This is one of the guys who actually cares about people, in case you didnt notice guys.
Thank you for being the person you are.
I will put all this information to good use by finding all herbs and supplements in every online clinical science based study... which agonise or antagonise these biomechanisms, until I can post a total solution or publish a book with the details for all.
What you have done is clearly intended to help people and professional understand a better safer humane way of looking after and treating patients. Very humanitarian.
Thank you very much.
U could have stayed ignorant and arogant reading basal abstracts and in stead your impetues to research this is given valence by your salient humane inclines in the context of your works construct.
What more can you do.
So i thank u from the feeling I soaked up from your clear intent. Doc.
I’ve been on antidepressants since age 8 (I’m 29) and have never had an orgasm. I don’t know if it’s PSSD or something else. I’ve tried multiple treatments, been to a urologist who discovered nothing, been to a sex therapist, and so far nothing has improved. No one has really taken it seriously. Most of my past psychiatrists and neurologists didn’t believe me. I don’t have penile numbness, just no orgasm. Best I’ve ever had was on par with a sneeze, worst have been painful. I’ve pretty much come to terms that this is just life, but I’m still hopeful to one day actually feel something on the pleasure scale beyond a 1/10 during sex/masturbation.
So sorry to hear . Assuming that all hormonal tests are also normal ? Has bupropion been tried as well ? Are you currently on SSRI ?
@@PsychiatrySimplified I’m currently on Wellbutrin and Paroxetine, as well as buspar, clonidine and trazadone for sleep. As far as I’m aware my hormone levels have always been fine. I know I’ve had testosterone checked multiple times. I’m not sure but I think I also had prolactin levels taken about 5 years ago. I can feel penile stimulation/pleasure and ejaculation is no problem when I’m alone (much more difficult with other people but that’s probably trauma-related - that trauma occurring in young adulthood so not related to anorgasmia). I just have never felt pleasure from orgasm, penile or prostate (nor can I ejaculate at all from prostate massage, etc).
Brother, you should look into what is called Post Finasteride Syndrome (PFS) as well. You have been chemically castrated and the drugs they prescribed to you have damaged you on an epigenetic level. But there is hope for you. Unfortunately you will NEVER be cured by the same people that did this to you in the first place! There is no “approved” cure for what was done to you. You were mislead and poisoned and it damaged your genes. You will never find a doctor who will take you seriously or give you the answers or tools that you need to recover. And I’m here to tell you that I have experienced it too and I healed myself. It took many years but I learned the hard way that it is possible to take your life back and heal yourself. I teach others how to heal themselves and after years of trial and error I figured out how to reclaim my old self and I saved my life. I can help you do in 4 months what took me 6 years to finally figure out. Contact me at (732) 682-6276 or my email zacl2010@gmail.com. I devote my life now to helping other men get their life back! Let’s get you back to being YOU!
Suffering from pssd since 13 years old im a grown up now and still nothing has changed no matter what i did
La PSSD mi ha distrutto la vita
Sorry to hear
Pssd ruined my life I'm completely debilitated and dehumanized now
Thank you for this video. I have sexual dysfunction that has gone on over a year with every symptom you mentioned.
This started after going on and off fluoxetine in a span of a year. I had a terrible reaction that resembled serotonin syndrome. Akathisia, feelings of terror, no sleep for about a week, non-stop diarrhea and nausea, jerking in my legs and tongue. When this triggered for me I also lost my sexual functioning like a light switch and my anhedonia got worse (now unable to feel music). Thankfully all of those symptoms got better over time but the sexual dysfunction and anhedonia remain.
I had taken SSRI’s in the past with no issues other than delayed orgasm (fluoxetine for OCD and later Sertraline for situational depression)
I also wanted to add I had the genital numbness the last few times on fluoxetine but I had no issues with erections or pleasure with orgasms. Now after being off I have issues with every aspect
Is there any way to treat the remaining sexual dysfunction and anhedonia? Thank you 🙏🏼
Sorry to hear; it's difficult to provide individual advice but dopaminergic agents such as Bupropion can help both for sexual dysfunction and anhedonia. there are other dopaminergic agents that can be considered covered in the video. PS not advice. Wish you well.
Brother, you should look into what is called Post Finasteride Syndrome (PFS) as well. You have been chemically castrated and the drugs they prescribed to you have damaged you on an epigenetic level. But there is hope for you. Unfortunately you will NEVER be cured by the same people that did this to you in the first place! There is no “approved” cure for what was done to you. You were mislead and poisoned and it damaged your genes. You will never find a doctor who will take you seriously or give you the answers or tools that you need to recover. And I’m here to tell you that I have experienced it too and I healed myself. It took many years but I learned the hard way that it is possible to take your life back and heal yourself. I teach others how to heal themselves and after years of trial and error I figured out how to reclaim my old self and I saved my life. I can help you do in 4 months what took me 6 years to finally figure out. Contact me at (732) 682-6276 or my email zacl2010@gmail.com. I devote my life now to helping other men get their life back! Let’s get you back to being YOU!
This shit has destroyed my life. Never knew about the risk before taking the medication.
I'm sorry to hear.
Gracias 🙏 por hablar sobre pssd tenía 18 años cuando esto destruyo mi vida acá en México es menos hablado sobre esto 💔
Lo siento. Espero que te vaya bien. Gracias por su mensaje.
Amigo soy de Mexico podemos hablar?
Hi I just want to say thank you very much for giving us all this inknowledge wisdom and understanding.
Thank you for raising awareness. It's a very strange issue.
This is happening to me right now! I was wondering why my sex drive wasn’t coming back very well.
Sorry to hear , please discuss it with your doctor . Wish you well
How you doin now?
I only took SSRI for a week. I was 17 when I took it. Im 26 now. Still suffering from PSSD. This is a crime. They stole my youth. Im still hoping to recover by losing weight. Its getting slowly better when Iose weight so lets keep hope
So sorry to hear? Were there any other aspects that you noticed? Want were the specific symptoms if you don't mind sharing for my and others learning?
How bad was your pssd when you first noticed it?
Its not important for a patient to ask aboit any side effect, THEY SHOULD BE TOLD!!!!!!!
But patient's are told NOTHING!!!!!
Because if they were told they would not take them.
Doc gave me zoloft to save my life and i was hesitant to use antidepressant but finally agreed.
3years later, PSSD makes me feel worse than during those dark times because not only am i angry at the system, i am angry at myselft for taking that medecine. ( my life is not in danger. I wanna heal, not die )
I have experienced emotional blunting after discontinuation that has never gone away. My libido has remained high. I think these drugs are not worth the risk, they are almost identical to placebo in efficacy. This is a case of a medication slipping through the regulatory process with a very high potential for iatrogenic harm. This is due to the short term nature and limited scope of pharmaceutical trials at the time. They have been over marketed and grandfathered in. They are insanely overprescribed, back when I was put on them my quack of a doctor decided to put me on paxil for an “add” diagnoses and “generalized anxiety disorder.” These are both bs terms coined by marketing departments to sell medications. Its normal for a college student to be anxious and have trouble paying attention at times. People are just getting maimed in the name of quarterly prophets. This is an all to familiar theme in our modern society and we as a people are just passively accepting the mass casualties of corporate greed as if it were a force of nature that we are at the mercy of. It’s no conspiracy, just sloppy trial design and a lack of follow up research.
Which medication were you on?
Thank you for ur supoort to show the world about this issues
These drugs are dangerous and I am so glad I am completely off them. The problem is most doctors do not understand antidepressants and what they do.
This shit has destroyed my life
sorry to hear
SSRI have contributed a great deal to my quality of life and the impotence is a side effect I can put up with because I don't miss the horrible depression I used to suffer.
Thank you for sharing. Importantly for sharing a personal risk benefit analysis.
Use of long-term antidepressants can cause disasters
thank you very much Dr Sanil
If I ever see the person who made citalopram I’d punch them in the face. I’ve been called crazy by many Drs too many times . Yes big pharmaceutical is responsible
Punch them? I would do something way worse than that to be honest
@@KingBongBoon I'm so pissed, cuz I don't feel pleasure when I orgasm. My life is over
After just 3 days on anxiety meds this happened to me. Genital numbness was first to go then my emotions. Along with cognitive issues. I stopped the meds but things got worse. I have trouble with speech,memory and balance now.Some of my emotions have came back but I cant feel them all the way. I can find something funny but can't laugh if that makes sense. Numb genitals was one thing but the loss of emotions and not being able to feel pleasure at all was nothing but torture. Music didn't feel the same. I still don't dream anymore. I couldn't get out of bed. I wouldn't wish that on anyone. Now my son who is adhd/ocd and only 5 his drs want to medicate him. I know he needs it cause things have gotten bad but I can not allow this to happen to him.
@@ishesabi3467 im confused you asked if he got better.. are you referring to my son? Did his adhd get better?
@@ishesabi3467 and as for me my emotions never fully returned. They returned about 50 percent. I feel disconnected most of the time. Numbness went away my sex life is back to normal. But my mental state since those pills has never been the same. I attempted to take my life twice. I would have never done that before. I feel disconnected from who I used to be. Almost like i can look at old pictures and have memories of who i was but cant connect to them like they are someone else's? If that makes sense? My bad emotions are magnified. My good emotions are barely hanging on but they are there. I still.cant feel excitement or laugh. I still have a stutter when I talk and lose my words constantly. My memory is still shot. I was not like this before those 3 pills. They changed me within days. I have good days and really bad days when I feel nothing but doom. I have a great husband for support which helps tons.
@@ishesabi3467 it's been 9 months
I have PSSD since i started with SSRI citalopram when I was 16 years old till now 32 years old. its so freaking sad and I still hope there will come some cure on 1 day or a solution...
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Go to Aayurvedic treatment
@@Shehzad1199 what treatment is that?
@@sgrogan955 Aayurvedic is a herbal treatment suggestion ....
For me it's been 41 years with no libido, genital anesthesia, and difficulty knowing when I need to urinate. However. I've never taken SSRIs, but was injected with Haldol. You can find my story in the text video on my channel and in the "about me".
Thank you for this video
My pleasure
Pssd ruined my life
So sorry to hear
@@Protracted-Withdrawal How can you be so sure? These is not your first negative reaction to people. If there is no way except suicide - as you say before- what are you waiting for? Stop promoting hopelessness. This is inhuman.
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I tested positive for Erectile dysfunction after having a Horrible outbreak, and felt the same way you described in your interview. Listening to you share your overcome experience gave me the glim of hope i needed to hear. i am glad that there is people like you out there who just want to help other people who are struggling with the same issues. Your words gave me the courage I needed to hear today to know that it's ok. I can still be myself and now I'm enjoy my life the way I am supposed to. It is a blessing i came across you Igho Channel
Thank you to everyone that's shared their experiences down below! I have history with genital numbness and I was prescribed nexito today. My doc never asked about my history or warned me. I don't think I'm going to take it
Doctor, thank you very much for raising awareness, but please beware that virtually any antidepressant including trazodone and mirtazapine can also cause PSSD. No antidepressant is completely safe with regards to sexual function except maybe tianeptine which has very different mechanism of action.
In my case it was trazodone that gave me this awful syndrome. Even though I've managed to recover significantly over the course of several years, I still have some residual symptoms which linger to this day and remind me of those difficult times. Personally I've met many people who got PSSD (and severe one!) from trazodone or mirtazapine and some of them have had it for 10+ years without any improvements so I consider myself very lucky.
In addition, I would like to add that there's been increasingly more evidence that epigenetic gene expression might be behind this condition which I guess is not good news for the sufferers.
Sorry to hear that this happened to you my doctor wanted to try me on trazodone as well I thought that one was at least safe as well as the other one you mentioned.
I have had PSSD for over 3 years. Just wondering if anyone has had a continuation of tinnitus as well. Never had tinnitus until taking the SSRI but after discontinuing my ears have not stopped ringing for over 3 yrs
Are you having any other features of mixed state? Sleep disturbances - racing thoughts , difficulty falling asleep , nightmares or night sweats , early morning awakening. Inner restlessness , agitation, other depressive thoughts along with this or is it only tinnitus with pssd.
@@PsychiatrySimplified I had no other side effects to the Fluoxetine and those two side effects started within two weeks of initially taking the med and neither side effect has gone away.
@@PsychiatrySimplified I am not currently or ever had the other symptoms that you mentioned.
@@jefffrancisco761 have they investigated it further? Or attempted to treat it?
Yes, I had a ringing in the ears for a few months after stopping my SNRI.
This is why I take Cabergoline everyday. Cabergoline is a dopamine agonist. It does wonders for my depression too.
Depression may be caused by low dopamine all along yet all these doctors prescribe serotonin as if that's gonna help. All increasing serotonin does is lower your sex drive and make you a suicidal robot with no emotions.
@@oldmancigar8865 I did have low dopamine. A doctor put me on Risperdal when I was 18. I became severely depressed. Low sex drive. Didn't enjoy life anymore. I kept going to doctor after doctor. In and out of psychiatric wards for severe depression. The doctors kept lying to me and saying Risperdal doesn't do those things even though I read online it does. I felt this way even after stopping the Risperdal and I only took it for a month. They wanted to put me on SSRI drugs. I turned it down. I discovered cabergoline reading on the internet. The doctors at first didn't want to put me on it. I finally found a doctor willing to let me try it and I've been on it for 13 years now.
@@blackflyingfox3365 similar thing happened to me. I was given melatonin (which lowers dopamine) at the start of high school in 7th grade every night and it ruined my school grades, I got kicked out of highschool by the way.
I was smart before that. Then I became depressed after being out of school, they gave me ssris. Even worse, lost all motivation and almost ended my life.
I wonder why all these doctors love serotonin and melatonin so much, these make people feel worse in almost every case. Dopamine is what we need 🤦♂️🤦♂️ and then they say it has nothing to do with the drug, just like you said. They trick you.
@@oldmancigar8865 I had no idea melatonin lowers dopamine. You just taught me something new. They've been marketing melatonin as a sleep aid for years.
@@blackflyingfox3365 yes they gave it to me as a kid and told me it was safe.
I also forgot to mention, I was also prescribed risperidone because I had anger issues from taking ssris (yes i know its insane, they gave me a drug, the drug made me crazy and they prescribed a similar drug to try help me)
I was smart enough to fake taking all of the pills. I never took a single one. My parents were forcing me to take it and they watched me, I put it in the corner of my mouth and spat it into tissues. Good thing did that, maybe risperidone would mess me up even more.
First few days this happened, I was numb, then it went back to normal. Now 2 years later Im a right mess. Why didnt my doctor warn me
How is it now?
Wow! Never even saw that coming! I take bupropion now, but took sari’s for a while. Having some problems that way. Beginning to wonder….
Olá a bupropiona ajudou?
I'm 16 and I have PSSD from fluoxetine, I took it for 2 weeks last year just before I turned 15 in order to help mild depression, hated the way it made me feel within 2 weeks, I felt more suicidal, so I quit fast. Ended up with severe anhedonia and numb penis. The numb penis has gotten better since last year but orgasm is still blunted (feels the same as taking a piss so masturbation is pointless) and I find it very hard to enjoy anything at all, it's all boring to me. This whole world is boring, it feels like a joke in a way.
I haven't even lost my V card and I have PSSD, and I no longer want to lose it. Shit. What's the point if it doesn't feel good?
Sorry to hear. Please see a medical professional. Medical causes should be ruled out and if deprrssion is present then that should be adequately treated
What milligrams were you on and did it completely take away your sexual function? What color were your pills?
I’m 17 and have same exact problem everything
@@PsychiatrySimplified all of these psych meds are very toxic and should be used last but primary care is giving them out without even doing blood work or asking about possible behavior or personality which would indicate underlying conditions, please help us with a video on how to treat all of the mentioned effects with natural substances or something, i heard also the gut and microbiome is affected big time as well and some recovery with a FMT
It’s criminal
I honestly thought SSRIs would blunt my emotions but they didn't. Im still crazy emotional, but mostly good ones. They also helped me realise that a lot of people are boring 😂
Stay away from those dangerous placebo
We have a group of more than 170 people from all around the world having post finasteride syndrome. (Finasteride/dutesteride for hair loss/alopecia)The side effects are also almost same as pssd, loss of lobido, no sexual desire, depression, brain fog, i am also victim. Ruined our life. Dr. Melcangi is doing research but only for pfs.
Sorry to hear. I've mentioned it in the video along with isotretinoin - one wonders how SSRIs, isotretinoin and finasteride with significantly different mechanisms of action lead to similar symptoms.
@@PsychiatrySimplified Sir i am presenting two facts :-
1) i took finasteride for a month, and quit as i felt loss of libido, sexual sides, damaged body hair quality and digestive side effects. After 3 months of quitting the drug, i suddenly felt 100% recovered for 7 days and again crashed though i never had touch the drug after quitting at the first time. I always wonder how it can be possible? All my hormone test are normal.(LH,FSH,SHBG,TESTESTORONE,DHT,PROLACTINE,B12,D, THYROID, ESTROGEN ETC)
2) another one guy took just one pill(finasteride), yes only one pill and he has been suffering from permanent side effect, since may be 2 year or more.
Females have also same sides and sexual sides is common(after ssris etc), so the thing here is not with hormonal isuee, but may be with the GABA receptor or any bounding agent ? I don't know exactly.
@@darpat5117 thanks for sharing that. It certainly is a mystery. yes it might not be the usual neurotransmitter aspects as those take time. One possibility is the receptor channel effect - transient receptor potential discussed or neurotoxicity. Certainly a lot isn't known.
@@darpat5117 170 people? What? There are thousands of people destroyed by that drug.
One of the biggest mysteries of PSSD is what the pathophysiology is. If we could figure out what the biological cause of the disorder is, we could cure the condition. But the fundamental mechanism unfortunately remains a mystery.
I don’t want to live anymore because of pssd. Every bit of humanity has been stripped off of me.
Really wish I hadn’t been on these hellish drugs since childhood, would have been nice to know about this before I could truly consent. No one can tell me that an child can consent to this.
Crimes against humanity period
always everyone just talking and preaching to the choir but is anyone gonna work on a cure???? had this for more than a decade from these stupid meds big pharma make.
Has anybody cured from this? I’ve hardly seen any cases of people recovering from this, including on the reddit forum
A lot of people have recovered, it's hard to see the statistics of this because it's not documented.
I believe that it's a 60% perm, 40% recover. Most people don't wake up one day and feel recovered, it's like an overtime thing.
Everyday a bit better. This is why you may not hear people say they recovered, because they're still making progress as time goes on and they don't know when they will be back to 100%.
@@oldmancigar8865 99% don't recover
@@sahydyxh5how do you know this
@@oldmancigar886540% recover? 😂 ahhahaha maybe 0,1%
Pls help the people with PSSD. I am from Greece 😥
Sertraline for 4 days caused this for me. It's been almost 3 years now with no improvement.
What doses did u take? Are u better?
@@baka3489 they gave me the lowest possible dose. But it hit me super hard, like a train.. I had lots of anxiety, sweating, palpations.. So I stopped the meds after 4 days without tapering. I had low libido while taking them but in the weeks after stopping, it slowly went away, completely. I still haven't recovered
I actually had an MDMA induced long term comedown. Turned out my HPA axis was totally messed up, eventually I got on TRT and it solved the problem. I did not however have emotional blunting or very severe sexual issues (just low libido) in the LTC.
What doctor did you see and where?
Hi does this work for women also? I too suffered from MDMA long term and suffered with bad depression & anxiety after. I’m on fluoxetine now but my sex drive is non existent, I have been on them for 2 years and want to come off but scared of falling into depression again
@@simb2603 Well for women it wouldn't be TRT but you can test for HPA dysfunction like checking pregnenolone, cortisol, DHEA-S etc. In the begininng of my long term comedown my pregnenolone was completely shot
Did you take any vitamin supplements to help cure the issue or improve symptoms?
@@NICK.00 I did take various supplements but the biggest one was probably pregnenolone since my levels were low after the MDMA
Devastating
Thanks alot Dr for such a wonderful information most urologist prescribe this also one thing does uses of local anesthetic is also dangerous??
Hi, I would like to know if one pill (50 mg) can cause permanent sexual disfunction? Side effect such as low libido was felt but I am worried it may be permanent.
It is rare. Any side effects should be discussed with the doctor immediately.
@@PsychiatrySimplified also is genital numbness the same as erectile dysfunction? What if erection does occur but no libido is felt?
@@Servantchild It's not rare, it's underreported!
Persistent SD is rare - sexual dysfunction with SSRIs is more common. Persistent post SSRI sexual dysfunction is SD that persists after all treatments have been tried. For many the range of treatments aren't implemented.
No they are different. Genital numbing can be an early indicator of PSSD and should be discussed with the doctor. Please see the latest video on PSSD
It's admitted to that antipsychotics can cause permanent grimmacing. SSRIs causing permanent sexual dysfunction is absolutely realistically possible.
Finasteride and dutasteride only cause ED if you let your estrogen get too high. Since they decrease conversion of testosterone to DHT, they increase conversion of test to estrogen. Anyone who takes a 5-alpha reductase inhibitor like finasteride/dutasteride should also take an aromatase inhibitor like aromasin, anastrozole, or letrozole, to decrease conversion of test to both DHT and estrogen at the same time
The finasteride induced stuff is probably more related to allopregnanolone than anything else. By inhibiting 5AR you inhibit the conversion of progesterone to allopregnanolone and allo has effects at GABA-A. DHT itself also has effects at this receptor. In fact allopreganolone may be involved for PSSD too.
This is happening to me
great that you can take a pill and suddenly your life is screwed
These drugs have ruined my life, you feel buried alive Sexually, everything is deaf with me! No doctor is willing to help me or believe it's a real nightmare!!! 24 And my life is broken.
Same I’m around the same age. I was put on ssris at 16 and it numbed me out and ruined my life.
Have you tried anything that will increase your dopamine. Bupropion , agomelatine. That may bring back you sexual function. I’m on agomelatine now. So far nothing much has happened. I still don’t feel normal or back to how I used to be before anti depressants. My mum took it upon herself to drug me at a young age instead of getting me out of the abusive unsafe home environment
I’m now 22 going on 23 and still haven’t found a solution.
@@Megapint78 Yes, this is like a bad nightmare that has become real
@@andre.s7224 I hope it gets better for us I really do. I’m on something called aglomelatine. It increases your dopamine. Maybe try something that increases dopamine and not seratonin.
Would buproprion be useful ( anxiety may result to the slight rise In dopamine. Ask your practioner.
Buproprion can cause Pssd!!
Bupropion can be helpful for anxiety if the anxiety is in the context of depression / ADHD. Generally bupropion can worsen anxiety if it’s part of hyperarousal. See the video on anxiety vs hyperarousal
I’m on agomelatine. Will it bring back anything? I have been ssris for years and yes it takes away your sex drive and even attraction to the opposite gender. My mum put me on sertraline at 16 to deal with my depression instead of me leaving my abusive home environment. She numbed out the symptoms and not the cause. I have never been the same person since. And at 22 going on 23 I’m concerned I will never get my old self back. I recently came of the sertraline in August this year. After years of being on it. After coming of it my anxiety got so bad that I had to go back on anti depressants now I’m on aglomelatine and I still feel really abnormal and not myself anymore. I feel like what these drugs have done to me is criminal and I’m so angry that I got put on mild altering drugs at such a young age I could barely consent. I’m now a drugged up zombie and half of who I used to be.
Brother, you should look into what is called Post Finasteride Syndrome (PFS) as well. You have been chemically castrated and the drugs they prescribed to you have damaged you on an epigenetic level. But there is hope for you. Unfortunately you will NEVER be cured by the same people that did this to you in the first place! There is no “approved” cure for what was done to you. You were mislead and poisoned and it damaged your genes. You will never find a doctor who will take you seriously or give you the answers or tools that you need to recover. And I’m here to tell you that I have experienced it too and I healed myself. It took many years but I learned the hard way that it is possible to take your life back and heal yourself. I teach others how to heal themselves and after years of trial and error I figured out how to reclaim my old self and I saved my life. I can help you do in 4 months what took me 6 years to finally figure out. Contact me at (732) 682-6276 or my email zacl2010@gmail.com. I devote my life now to helping other men get their life back! Let’s get you back to being YOU!
Pssd=hell
I have this problem
Sorry to hear. Hope you can get treatment
@@vladimirbaulin5381 The treatment modalities are ones discussed in the video
I just made a video, trying my best to spread awareness and save lives, I suffer with this and it’s very personal
Thanks for doing that. You can share a link on comments if you wish
@@PsychiatrySimplified
ruclips.net/video/Wo4-6VBBNu0/видео.html
Thank you Dr Sanil Rege, making me tear up a little.
Here’s another young guys story similar to mine but in Spanish
ruclips.net/video/pozmdbh_AYM/видео.html
I’m so unlucky to have this happen to me from 1 pill. 1 year later and I’m still suffering with no sexual function or emotion.
So sorry to hear. Hope you can get some help . Wish you well
Hello, what did you take ?
@@josefdez8258 Celexa
Is PSSD IS permanant or goes awy after stoping medication..?
Depends on the person. Some people have it forever, some people have it for 1 year and it goes away, some people have it for 10 years and it goes away. It's a russion roulette
@bullet P My PSSD went away in the past few months, or at least all the sexual symptoms are greatly reduced my libido is high and my O feels normal, im not sure if it feels worse compared to before but it's better than the numbness I used to have.
Emotional blunting still comes and goes but I do experience emotion now. i took ssris from 2021 july to around august, and quit. symptoms improved summer 2022 and towards the end a lot of things improved. but as i said im not sure, sometimes i feel like i've been crashed again, like mood wise, libido gets crashed less often though than the blunting.
@bullet P So here's the order on me from what improved the most to what improved the least, most is the top least is bottom:
1. Libido
2. Sensation
3. Emotions
4. Disconnection feeling (This started ever since i first took ssris and has been a reoccurring thing, occasionally I just feel disconnected from everyone else, or the world in general, and feel like doing nothing.)
@@oldmancigar8865 brother I too 7 days 2021 SEP only erection problem came then I stopped waited for months went to police training now 2022 mar months I got worse effect so Dr prescribed me fluoxetine to take I don't know what to do
It's permanent
think my doc tried to render me impotent by prescribing anti anxiety med, went for a UTI and high BP, got the BP meds but the anti anxiety was not needed, threw them in the trash after seeing this and the comments, going to find another doctor also.
This literally happened to me, and how I got deceived into psych meds without even being told they were psych meds.
Went in for BP meds, I was given some BP meds that also tamper with your brain, then they sneaked out the BP portion and was left off with just anxiety meds. Absolutely disgusting.
@@juanzavala9023 yeah I took half a lexapro this morning and had the squirts for a good hour or two this morning, that with reading all these comments.....things went straight into the trash, I'll manage my anxiety some other way, castration isn't an option.