LifeInSalt

I’m done. A life without sexuality will never be a life worth living to me. I could handle being a half zombie but this I can’t. I’ve tried filling the void #PSSD left with the gym and a bunch of other shit but it just doesn’t work. Nothing is going to replace this nor is anything going to make me feel less abused or humiliated. I will never again look at other people and not hate them for having sth that was taken away from me. I don’t know how people in this community find a way to continue but I’m not one of them.

”The dose makes the poison” does not apply when it comes to antidepressants. They are inherently toxic even at prescribed doses. reddit.com/r/PSSD/s/Ab8re…

Randy was killed by his neurologist two years ago. He was a kind man and a talented artist, only 34 years old, with a full life ahead of him. But listening to his doctor altered his course and ultimately ended it all. I miss our talks, and I’m so angry that you were taken.

@hanna_pssd I‘m so tired of the ‘have you tried keto and long walks in the park’ comments. Yes, we’ve tried everything. It’s a brain injury. If you care about victims donate to research instead of implicitly victim blaming us as if our lifestyle was what caused PSSD.

When we were still healthy, we were given neurotoxins. Now that they have severely disabled us, this is what we are being told. We never needed the poison. But we do need treatment now.

I wouldn’t be surprised if these drugs do cause issues like this in humans. We know that SSRIs cause PSSD in humans, which is a devastating neuroendocrine disorder with no treatment. If you are on these meds, you must taper off slowly when going off: theinnercompass.org/taper

Everyday with PSSD is hell. Whole life taken away all because I took a common medication, SSRI antidepressant, in 2019 to help my generalized anxiety. Quit after 25 days because it made me 100% numb with no pleasure and still stuck this way over 5 years later. Time to end it all

@lilorangemini @ActivateAmyMode @TheHorizonsCall @_celia_bedelia_ I had the exact same experience. Now I have no emotion and no libido, and I’ve been off all antidepressants for well over a decade now.

When you don't fit into the traditional narrative, they create a new one to resolve their dissonance.

This psychiatrist, Ben Sessa, is only suspended for 12 months? He had a romantic relationship with a vulnerable patient and "the patient has since taken her life." 12 months is not a consequence. abc.net.au/news/2024-03-0…

@hanna_pssd They can make you feel nothing at all… permanently!

Oh yes there is! If they only knew… reddit.com/r/AskPsychiatr…

@Unstoppable218 You guys are such a cute couple ❤️

Behind every strong man is a strong woman. I've gotta give the biggest shoutout to my wife. She has been so incredibly supportive throughout horrific PFS journey. There's no way I could do this all this without her. Thank you for what you do, baby. Together, we'll change the world for the better.

Man sollte vielleicht bedenken dass sich wegen PSSD schon unzählige Menschen das Leben genommen haben. Wir hatten im letzten Jahr über zwanzig bestätigte Fälle. Es geht dabei auch nicht nur um’s ficken sondern um die Fähigkeit eine feste Beziehung zu haben, vllt eine Familie irgendwann die einem genommen wird. Dazu kommt noch das PSSD nicht nur sexuell ist sondern auch mit totaler emotionaler Betäubtheit einhergeht. Man ist im Prinzip schon tod. Bin selbst betroffen und kann nur sagen PSSD ist 20 mal schlimmer als die Panikattacken wegen denen ich ADs genommen hab.

Was für eine bescheuertes Argument, man solle seine verschriebenen Antidepressiva nicht nehmen, weil sie dir die sexuelle Lust nehmen. Alter erstens, wenn ich nen depressiven Schub habe dann ist ficken jetzt eh nicht meine Priorität. Zweitens, was nützt dir denn ein Ständer, wenn

A lot of young people are on antidepressants… “Teens Are Forgoing a Classic Rite of Passage - The Atlantic” theatlantic.com/family/archive…

I strongly believe @POTUS @SecKennedy needs to trigger a national emergency for psychiatry. Millions of people with brain damaged from psych medications. How is millions brain damaged not a national emergency? #akathisia #tardivedyskinesia

Die Studie ist übrigens viel zu niedrig angesetzt. Man hat dabei nur Männer die Viagra oder Ähnliches nehmen miteinbezogen. Frauen wurden gar nicht berücksichtigt. Die Tatsache, dass viele Männer mit PSSD keine Tabletten nehmen weil es sich nicht lohnt Sex zu haben wenn man eh nichts fühlt wurde nicht berücksichtigt. Dann gab es da noch ziemlich extreme Ausschlusskriterien z.B. durften die nie im Leben Zigaretten geraucht haben. Klar das die Prevalenz dann viel niedriger ausfällt als sie tatsächlich ist. Eine kanadische Studie hat übrigens gezeigt, dass 1/7 Menschen die SSRIs genommen haben bis zu einem gewissen Grad an bleibender genitaler Taubheit leiden.

@yerilith @playgroundbrown @Amyrlin_ Korrigiert wegen Zahlendreher: Laut dieser Studie bei etwa 1 von 216 Patienten. PSSD -> post-SSRI sexual dysfunction …-general-psychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… PS: Bin übrigens nicht gegen Antidepressiva, aber Mist ist das mit diesem Risiko schon. 🫤

I have a question for #PSSD sufferers that have windows. Do you experience a slew of awful physical symptoms along with them or do you just feel back to normal?

I guess some of them hold that voicing suicidal ideation is just attention seeking. Maybe she thought she was calling you out on it? While others will have you locked up at the slightest hint. Either way zero compassion. You can tell they follow their (poor pseudo scientific training) the human being in front of them doesn’t matter

If I had to use one word and one word only to describe my experience of being a psychiatric patient for decades, it would be "humiliating". It was relentlessly humiliating. From being talked to and treated like I was an idiot from my first brush with "mental healthcare" and the sugar-coated lie that is "you're not crying because of the bullies at school- you're crying because you have a brain chemical imbalance" To every negative development in my life being attributed to my diagnosis (ie my faulty brain) and every positive development being attributed to "the paroxetine's clearly helping so why don't you stay on it for another six months" To the times I was laughed at- literally- by psychiatrists for daring to suggest stopping paroxetine can cause withdrawal symptoms and what I was experiencing was withdrawal. I was severely harmed by a psychiatric drug and the system as a whole, with physical, tangible consequences. But the way that harm was caused and then denied was utterly humiliating- and for me that sense of humiliation might be the most insidious and persistent harm of all.

@fkthismarket @CRYPT0N1TE @nypost No I’m not about to take more of the same shit that chemically castrated me

@LifeInSalt @CRYPT0N1TE @nypost Did you try mianserine

Gen Zers says antidepressants have ruined their sex lives: ‘I’m dead inside’ trib.al/K0upH8B

Catching up with Daniel Demers in DC from PSSD network. PSSD network has led one of the fastest and most effective drug injury advocacy campaigns I’ve ever seen. We can all learn from their efforts !