Doctors reveal how antidepressants can PERMANENTLY destroy your sex life, cause pleasureless orgasms...

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Doctors reveal how antidepressants can PERMANENTLY destroy your sex life, cause pleasureless orgasms...
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It's widely accepted that sexual side-effects happen while people are actually taking antidepressants. There is now growing recognition that sexual problems can continue after stopping the drug.

When 25-year-old Rebekah Kane was prescribed antidepressants at the age of 15, she had no idea of the devastating consequences.‘I have total genital numbness, zero libido and have no response to sexual stimuli.’

These include antidepressants known as SNRIs and some of the older antidepressants known as tricyclics. The lawsuit was filed by Dr Antonei B. Csoka, a molecular biologist at Howard University in Washington DC, who has been researching sexual dysfunction since the early 2000s. His theory is that the drugs, by interfering with serotonin levels, cause modifications to genes that regulate sexual function.

Carlton Ellison, 25, was prescribed the antidepressant nortriptyline when he was 14. It wasn't until he was 18 that he noticed his libido was lower than his friends' Joanna Moncrieff, a professor of critical and social psychiatry at University College London, explains: ‘No one knows exactly why but people’s sexuality is impaired by drugs that interfere with the brain chemical serotonin. This is why antidepressants have been trialled for premature ejaculation and why they are given to sex offenders to reduce their sex drive.’

The NHS recommends talking therapy such as cognitive behavioural therapy or an antidepressant for treating OCD. In Rebekah’s case, the psychiatrist she saw recommended both.‘I was told sertraline had an excellent safety profile and the worst that could happen is that I may experience nausea for a few weeks.’But there was another side-effect.

‘I spent a lot of my time on my own because social interaction wasn’t enjoyable any more,’ she says. ‘I had lost all the drive and ambition I used to have so my studies suffered. Rebekah’s problems led to her leaving university in 2022, a year before she was due to finish, and she moved back in with her parents - who thought she was suffering from depression.In January 2023 Rebekah decided to stop taking antidepressants in the hope her condition would improve, but since then she has deteriorated.

Rebekah went online and found a community of people suffering similar symptoms after taking antidepressant medication – a group of around 13,000 on Reddit for those with PSSD. When Carlton Ellison, 25, a student in the North East, was 14, he was diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome . ‘Looking back, I wish they’d suggested I’d changed my diet rather than just give me medication, but no one ever mentioned that,’ says Carlton.He began taking the nortriptyline along with the mebeverine. He was given a repeat prescription of both and continued to take them for the next eight years.

‘It was the first time I started to realise that something was wrong with my sexual function and libido.’ ‘So I switched, but after a month I decided to come off all the drugs as I didn’t like the fact that I was on medication for such a long time. I just wanted to live a healthy life.’

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