More Evidence Antidepressants Might Induce Sexual Dysfunction Even After Stopping Them
A retrospective study in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry identified 183 possible cases of people who suffered sexual dysfunction that endured even after stopping taking SSRI antidepressants. Of these, the Israeli researchers identified "23 high-probability cases" of "Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction" (PSSD).
"Possible cases were subjects with normal pretreatment sexual function who first experienced sexual disturbances while using a single SSRI/SNRI, which did not resolve upon drug discontinuation for 1 month or longer," wrote the researchers. "High-probability cases were also younger than 50-year-olds; did not have confounding medical conditions, medications, or drug use; and had normal scores on the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale."
"Limitations of the study include retrospective design and selection and report biases that do not allow generalization or estimation of incidence," noted the researchers. "However, our findings add to previous reports and support the existence of PSSD, which may not be fully explained by alternative nonpharmacological factors related to sexual dysfunction, including depression and anxiety."
The website RxISK has been tracking cases of apparent post-SSRI sexual dysfunction.
Ben-Sheetrit, Joseph, Dov Aizenberg, Antonei B. Csoka, Abraham Weizman, and Haggai Hermesh. “Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction: Clinical Characterization and Preliminary Assessment of Contributory Factors and Dose-Response Relationship.” Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology, March 2015, 1. doi:10.1097/JCP.0000000000000300. (Abstract)
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“High-probability cases were also younger than 50-year-olds; did not have confounding medical conditions, medications, or drug use; and had normal scores on the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale.”
Absolutely true. And the psychiatrists have no clue what the adverse withdrawal effects of their antidepressants are. So they misdiagnose the common symptoms of antidepressant withdrawal syndrome as the major “mental illnesses,” and put innocent and healthy patients on their neuroleptics.
And when a psychiatrist puts a non-psychotic person on an antipsychotic, well, it can make the innocent and healthy person psychotic. Proof from drugs.com:
“neuroleptics … may result in … the anticholinergic intoxication syndrome … Central symptoms may include memory loss, disorientation, incoherence, hallucinations, psychosis, delirium, hyperactivity, twitching or jerking movements, stereotypy, and seizures.”
Then the psychiatrists misdiagnose the central symptoms of neuroleptic induced anticholinergic intoxication syndrome as either bipolar or schizophrenia. And they try to make the person psychotic, with the antipsychotics forever, because this is what is profitable for the psychiatrists.
Psychiatry is just a big scam.
Although I have never taken SSRIs myself, I have corresponded with some people who have been damaged by them in this way. One of them, a young man with much promise, committed suicide because of it. I read his suicide note.
Haven’t you heard? The “mentally ill” aren’t supposed to have and enjoy sex! That seems to be the prevailing attitude amongst “doctors.”
And the general public appears to thing so, too. After all, if you are “mentally ill” you should be out of sight, out of mind and preferably locked up on a ward somewhere.
That’s right. Wouldn’t want them to reproduce too much. This is a brilliant eugenics program in that the sexual dysfunction is framed by psychiatry and big pharma as being an unfortunate side-effect of a necessary medical treatment. Responsibility is diffused and no one is held accountable.
How ironic. Sex is an excellent anti-depressant.
Nice way to make your depression permanent…