Placo
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- Feb 14, 2024
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Lately I feel like I've lost my libido, I don't know whether to blame the drugs, the depression or both but the fact is that I feel asexual.
eatantz
I luv dolls
- Nov 4, 2023
- 560
Are you upset by this? I'm thinking of maybe taking antidepressants since i don't mind loosing my libido
Placo
Life and Death
- Feb 14, 2024
- 905
Not so much, the fact is that motivation in general seems low to me and this is a big problem, I had read that SSRIs can cause a sort of amotivational syndrome as well as destroying libido, but it is difficult at this point to establish whether it is to fault them or depression.
Placo
Life and Death
- Feb 14, 2024
- 905
That seems to me to happen when you stop taking the SSRI but the sexual dysfunction continues, I'm under treatment at the moment so I can't determine that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_serotonin_reuptake_inhibitor#Post-SSRI
Obviously the problem of sexual dysfunction also exists during treatment.
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seph25
Member
- Jun 21, 2024
- 16
That is definetly due to the SSRI. No doubt at all. Depression does not cause sexual dysfunction.
Just read this.
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DaniDee
Member
- May 11, 2019
- 10
My depression definitely cut into my libido quite a bit, but as soon as I started taking meds it was annihilated ... which makes life even harder when your partner has a healthy functioning libido and can't understand why you don't... basically I just pretend all the time. It's been almost 18 years now of playing pretend. Oh well.
Placo
Life and Death
- Feb 14, 2024
- 905
I noticed that cariprazine has a positive effect on libido, perhaps it can counteract SSRIs but it has its side effects, bupropion can also be a good idea but obviously has side effects too.
