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SSRIS can cause permanent sexual dysfunction and Doctors underestimate the severity and likelihood of side effects

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Evidence suggests that SSRIs, a class of antidepressants, can cause PERMANENT damage to sexual function, says leading sexual medicine physician Dr. Irwin Goldstein San Diego Sexual Med. "It's an awful condition. It persists, causes frustration, embarrassment, humiliation," Dr. Goldstein says. Yet most patients aren't aware of this risk when they first get on SSRIs. PSSD Network | Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction Inner Compass Initiative

Evidence suggests that SSRIs, a class of antidepressants, can cause PERMANENT damage to sexual function, says leading sexual medicine physician Dr. Irwin Goldstein San Diego Sexual Med. "It's an awful condition. It persists, causes frustration, embarrassment, humiliation," Dr. Goldstein says. Yet most patients aren't aware of this risk when they first get on SSRIs. PSSD Network | Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction Inner Compass Initiative

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“I have no sensation in my genitals. My clitoris is completely numb.” Lauren Friedman, 23, shared her devastating experience with PSSD (Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction) — permanent loss of libido, sensation, and ability to orgasm after taking antidepressants. Chris Williamson and Isabel Brown reacted with shock, noting how little mainstream coverage this issue receives. Sexual side effects from SSRIs affect 50-70% of users. For a subset of people, these effects (including genital numbness and anorgasmia) persist long after discontinuation, a condition known as Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD). The exact prevalence is unknown, but patient reports and emerging research suggest it may be under-recognized. People deserve full informed consent about potential long-term risks before starting these medications. What do you think, should PSSD get more public and medical attention?

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‼️The antidepressant sexual dysfunction rate is 59%. The average starting age is getting younger. And the side effects can outlast the prescription permanently. A study on antidepressant use found that 59.1% of patients experience sexual dysfunction, and the European Medicines Agency updated the official product information for SSRIs and SNRIs in 2019 to acknowledge that these symptoms have continued in some patients even after stopping the drug entirely. The damage can be permanent. This is the medication being prescribed to seven-year-olds. A parent giving an SSRI to a child that young may rationalize that sexual side effects are not relevant yet. What that parent may not understand is that most children who start on these medications never come off them. The decision made at age seven follows that child into adulthood, and a 59% rate of sexual dysfunction is not a risk they are choosing for themselves. It is a risk being chosen for them before they are old enough to have any say in the matter. When adverse event rates in vaccine trials hit 5%, alarm bells go off. When one in two patients reports sexual dysfunction from a drug being prescribed to primary school children, it barely makes the news.

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A study of over a thousand patients found that 59% of people on antidepressants experience sexual dysfunction. Doctors are prescribing these drugs to seven-year-olds. A peer-reviewed study of over 1,000 outpatients found that 59.1% of patients on antidepressants experienced sexual dysfunction when all antidepressants were considered together. Men came in at 62.4%, women at 56.9%, with women reporting higher severity. Those are the numbers attached to a class of drugs now being prescribed to children as young as seven. The European Medicines Agency took that seriously enough in 2019 that it updated the official product labeling for SSRIs and SNRIs after petitioners, researchers, and people harmed by these drugs forced their hand. The new language states that these drugs may cause symptoms of sexual dysfunction, and that there have been reports of long-lasting sexual dysfunction where the symptoms continued even after the drug was discontinued. A parent putting a seven-year-old on an SSRI may be thinking their child is not sexually active yet, so the risk feels abstract. What that framing misses is that most children put on these medications do not come off them. They carry the drug into adulthood, into relationships, and into marriage, along with a 50 to 60 percent likelihood of sexual dysfunction that the label now acknowledges may not resolve even after they stop taking it. 👇

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🚨Many people prescribed SSRI antidepressants don’t realize that they can cause irreversible damage to sexual function, says leading sexual medicine clinician Dr. Irwin Goldstein San Diego Sexual Med. “SSRIs, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, are one of the most widely prescribed medications in the United States…The problem is they are recognized to raise serotonin—that's their mechanism—but serotonin is an inhibitor of sexual function. While using the medication, it's widely appreciated that individuals will suffer sexual health concerns. But…when they stop the medicine, the usual teaching is that everyone returns to their pre-medication sexual function. And that's not what we're seeing in our sexual health clinic here. The name of the condition is post-SSRI sexual dysfunction, or PSSD, and it's an awful condition. It persists, causes frustration, embarrassment, humiliation. It causes erectile dysfunction in young men, libido problems, genital sensation changes, orgasmic dysfunction.”

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