[–] LegendaryAsshole [S] ago (edited ago)
You explained it great. I haven't checked your sources but some of the things you mention were my sneaking suspicions. Serotonin...it all just seems so counter productive. Young person is having trouble dealing with life in general, let's give them a medication that will give them erectile dysfunction! I know it's not technically erectile dysfunction but to a young person any one of those could be ED.
I was put on these medsas a 16 year old, turns out my parents just hit me too much and there wasn't actually anything wrong with me, until I took these and my dick stopped working. Took me a long time to figure out what was going on.
Recently I battled alcoholism, docs wanted to put me on antidepressants, I tried to talk about what they did to me and they treated me like I was an idiot and tried really hard to push them on me. 3 years sober and still wondering what those fuckos were thinking.
Anyways, thanks!
[–] HelloPanda26 ago (edited ago)
You're welcome! I'm actually trying to get an article published on ED in SSRIs so getting the chance to explain it helps me out too. It's my belief that not enough doctors and pharmacists talk about this side effect. As such, we have people thinking there's something wrong with them when it's actually the medications. I was talking to a pharmacist just a week ago about this situation and she told me not counseling on the side effect of ED for one of her patients almost caused a divorce. When it was finally discussed, the patient broke down crying saying that his wife had been accusing him or cheating and not loving her anymore due to the lack of physical intimacy when it was really the side effect that no one told him about.
I'm so sorry all of these things happened to you. I know how you feel about the abusive parents and doctors just wanting to fix it with drugs. It happened to me too. It's unprofessional for doctors to not listen or to be completely dismissive. I think any time you have a case like that, it's time to find another doctor because the current one has become jaded. I'm glad you're doing better now! Keep up the sobriety!