Take a Pill, Kill Your Sex Drive? 6 Reasons Antidepressants Are Misnamed - Polidicks

Well if you're depressed your sex drive is probably dead anyway.

Maybe there's a market for a Prozac + Viagra combo pill

The prozach make my nob a bit number but it went normal when i stopped It was weird having a small amount of uncertainty of the position of my dick at any given times

Better to have decreased sexual drive than going mad and blowing your head off

[QUOTE=DeEz;38018721]Better to have decreased sexual drive than going mad and blowing your head off[/QUOTE] Lies, sex above everything else.

There are very few medications I trust, and knowing the long-term side-effects of many of these, I feel it's better for me and my body to wait out whatever I have. I was on medication for the first time in my life just a month ago. It was penicillin. I don't want to use it often, only when I have to, because my body builds a resistance against it if I overuse it. For anyone who doesn't have anything life-threatening, permanently damaging or chronic I'd recommend to avoid all medication as much as possible with few exceptions. For those who do, make sure your prescribed medication works for your body personally and that it's worth the side-effects.

I have recently been diagnosed with severe bipolar and ADHD. I was prescribed Zoloft and Abilify and have been taking it for about 3-4 weeks. So far, I feel emotionless and have no sex drive at all. Not only that, but I am not as social as I used to be. I am fearful that these meds are not doing anything but making me worse. It's scary when your mind is fucked up and all you want to do is get it fixed, but you don't even know where to start.

Last time I took antidepressants I had all of those side effects + seizures and schizophrenia. I pretty much can't take them anymore because I developed a phobia of medicine that effects the mind.

antidepressants can also fuck with your motor skills. I've been taking prozac for awhile and just get shakes from time to time. That's the only real side effect I have from it.

I know at one point in time my mom had a bunch of different antidepressants she tried and they were all horrible. My doctor recommends that I think about using them, but I honestly don't really want to, due to the side effects and the likes. I guess though if I do and it fucks with my motor skills nothing will really come of it because I have the shakes 100% the time.

Seems like I'm the only one with positive results from Antidepressants. Except nausea and decreased sex drive the first month, but that's something to expect while the body gets used to it.

My dad has bipolar disorder and takes mood stabilizers, anti-depressants, and anti-anxiety medications daily and from what he told me, his doctors don't exactly know why his medication works, they just know that it works in a particular way. He said that's why a lot of the medication that alter the brain tend to have a shitton of side-effects that sometimes don't even make any sense.

[QUOTE=-nesto-;38016759]Antidepressants are horrible. I took a prescription for about a week and gave up. You couldn't cum and you'd always have a massive shit eating grin.[/QUOTE] I remember taking anti psychotics which was also used as antidepressant that had this effect. (or are you talking about not being able to have orgasms?) I could have orgasms but no cum came out. There was precum though. It was kinda weird, but useful at the same time. I wish I could toggle that feature on and off by command.. The strange thing about this is that the doctor never told me about this side effect. I was told about the usual weight gain stuff and stiffness, but not this. It seemed like a pretty common thing when she explained it.

[QUOTE=CapsAdmin;38022559]I could have orgasms but no cum came out. There was precum though.[/QUOTE] This is what I experienced.

[QUOTE=POLOPOZOZO;38018449]Well if you're depressed your sex drive is probably dead anyway.[/QUOTE] Yeah, not quite. Even when my seasonal affective disorder is in full swing, I'm a horny guy. You can feel like shit and still want to get laid. Admittedly, anxiety disorders can completely kill your drive on certain days, but that could just be me.

[QUOTE=timmah638;38024027]Yeah, not quite. Even when my seasonal affective disorder is in full swing, I'm a horny guy. You can feel like shit and still want to get laid. Admittedly, anxiety disorders can completely kill your drive on certain days, but that could just be me.[/QUOTE] I don't know it killed mine pretty much completely.

I take 40mg of Cittalopram (Generic of Celexa) a day, i sweat more than normal, usually am not very motivated, and have a very weak sex drive, not to mention orgasms aren't very pleasurable at all. Been wanting to get off this shit for a long time.

Before the doctors diagnosed me as Bipolar, I was suicidal and pretty much forced to talk prozac, which indeed sent me into the huge mania that got the illness noticed. They say it themselves that they shouldn't have prescribed me prozac without a mood-stabaliser, even though in the past I had been on a stabaliser before, but oh well...

Anyone got experience with anxiolytics? I was diagnosed with Aspergers/High Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder nearly a year ago at the age of 22 and I have on/off issues with anxiety. I also have racing mind/difficulty concentrating which I intend to speak to a psychotherapist about at some point that I seem fall in and out of self-medicating with caffeine for I'd rather avoid psychological medication to be honest and try a CBT based route but I just can't relax most of the time and it drains me. Some strains of weed seem to help me but I'm socially awkward and don't have a reliable hookup plus I'd rather not rely on black market goods.

I wish I could take control over the reasons of my depression so that I can actually [sp]cum[/sp] again, but I don't have a reason. It's a shitty fucking chemical imbalance that is pretty damn dominant in my family. My mom had it, my dad had it, their moms and their dads had it. Fecking hell

[QUOTE=Andokool12;38013605]I'm always confused to hear how somebody on anti-depressants experiences side-effects like being easily agitated or simply more depressed. So I guess that explains it.[/QUOTE] Hi, I'm on Lexapro, and it's been working out for me. I know some people get serious side-effects, but I feel overall better than when I started.