Comments on: Sex and Psych Drugs – Young Couples Beware http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/sex-and-psych-drugs-young-couples-beware-0292.html America's Premier Online Legal News Source Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:57:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Brittany http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/sex-and-psych-drugs-young-couples-beware-0292.html/comment-page-1#comment-640194 Brittany Wed, 14 Dec 2011 21:17:01 +0000 http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/?p=292#comment-640194 I took geodon for two years and I noticed a large decrease in my ability to become aroused. I am a twenty three year old woman. I've been off of it for five months and I still cannot become aroused the way I could before. I am very upset that my arousal abilities have not come back. I think many of people are in this situation. I don't believe that it is listed on the side effects that permanent sexual dysfunction is a possibility. I think it is time for someone to pay for this misleading transgression. I took geodon for two years and I noticed a large decrease in my ability to become aroused. I am a twenty three year old woman. I've been off of it for five months and I still cannot become aroused the way I could before. I am very upset that my arousal abilities have not come back. I think many of people are in this situation. I don't believe that it is listed on the side effects that permanent sexual dysfunction is a possibility. I think it is time for someone to pay for this misleading transgression.

]]> By: Dwight from Cleveland http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/sex-and-psych-drugs-young-couples-beware-0292.html/comment-page-1#comment-9102 Dwight from Cleveland Sun, 07 Jun 2009 02:38:18 +0000 http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/?p=292#comment-9102 Hello all, Mine is a story that I have told so many times searching for answers that I am getting tired of typing it out. It is one I have since is being played out daily hundreds of times over and helping divorce attorneys avoid the affects of the recession. Many of these stories can be found here. (http://www.topix.com/forum/drug/effexor/TQ4I2UR28DFD3N759). But the very shortened version of it is this. I was in a relationship with a person who was caring, passionate, honest, committed, and very much in love with me (and I with her.) She had always shown signs of bi-polar and/ or anxiety. After the birth of our child these traits became more profound. We talked about it and she acknowledged it. She sought therapy. 5 months later there was no longer any trace of her old personality except the bipolar and anxiety traits. After a brief period of reduced libido, it started to gain force and went to the other extreme. I am now fighting to get my wife off Prozac in hopes of saving my family. My thoughts are this. Are they barking up the wrong tree, or at least only one tree instead of many? If you take that we know that this dysfunction manifests itself in many ways, what is it that they all have in common? This loss of desire is not an independent “feeling” that just happens. When you consider that the drug is supposed to “take the edge off” people who have anxiety or OCD issues, you are saying it is supposed to reduce their feelings of concern. Well these drugs are not surgeon’s scalpels taking out those feelings that are deemed unhealthy. You are asking the drug to remove the things that a person is passionate about. That not only includes how the bed is made, what smells are coming from the kitchen, or the exact time your toddler went down for a nap. It also includes feelings of sorrow, guilt, and consequence. These emotions are very important in making up that magical feeling we call “love”. Sex is a dirty, messy, energy consuming affair (especially when done right.) Why would anybody who didn’t have that connection not only with their partner, but also with themselves want to bother with it. What I would like to see is that they stop calling it a “sexual dysfunction” or “reduced libido” and explain to the patience that it is going to cause you to loose passion for yourself and your loved ones. I guess that wouldn’t be a very good marketing ploy. Hello all,

Mine is a story that I have told so many times searching for answers that I am getting tired of typing it out. It is one I have since is being played out daily hundreds of times over and helping divorce attorneys avoid the affects of the recession. Many of these stories can be found here. (http://www.topix.com/forum/drug/effexor/TQ4I2UR28DFD3N759). But the very shortened version of it is this. I was in a relationship with a person who was caring, passionate, honest, committed, and very much in love with me (and I with her.) She had always shown signs of bi-polar and/ or anxiety. After the birth of our child these traits became more profound. We talked about it and she acknowledged it. She sought therapy. 5 months later there was no longer any trace of her old personality except the bipolar and anxiety traits. After a brief period of reduced libido, it started to gain force and went to the other extreme. I am now fighting to get my wife off Prozac in hopes of saving my family.

My thoughts are this. Are they barking up the wrong tree, or at least only one tree instead of many? If you take that we know that this dysfunction manifests itself in many ways, what is it that they all have in common?

This loss of desire is not an independent “feeling” that just happens. When you consider that the drug is supposed to “take the edge off” people who have anxiety or OCD issues, you are saying it is supposed to reduce their feelings of concern. Well these drugs are not surgeon’s scalpels taking out those feelings that are deemed unhealthy. You are asking the drug to remove the things that a person is passionate about. That not only includes how the bed is made, what smells are coming from the kitchen, or the exact time your toddler went down for a nap. It also includes feelings of sorrow, guilt, and consequence. These emotions are very important in making up that magical feeling we call “love”. Sex is a dirty, messy, energy consuming affair (especially when done right.) Why would anybody who didn’t have that connection not only with their partner, but also with themselves want to bother with it.

What I would like to see is that they stop calling it a “sexual dysfunction” or “reduced libido” and explain to the patience that it is going to cause you to loose passion for yourself and your loved ones. I guess that wouldn’t be a very good marketing ploy.

]]> By: Joan Rogers http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/sex-and-psych-drugs-young-couples-beware-0292.html/comment-page-1#comment-9126 Joan Rogers Sat, 06 Jun 2009 23:37:21 +0000 http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/?p=292#comment-9126 Until I read this article, I thought I was probably imagining the fact that my sexual response totally changed after I was on SSRIs. I've been off for five years, and have not bounced back despite now being with an incredibly loving, tender, and emotionally intimate partner. We're OK, but my ability to climax changed radically while I was on SSRIs, and has not returned now that I am off them. Until I read this article, I thought I was probably imagining the fact that my sexual response totally changed after I was on SSRIs. I've been off for five years, and have not bounced back despite now being with an incredibly loving, tender, and emotionally intimate partner. We're OK, but my ability to climax changed radically while I was on SSRIs, and has not returned now that I am off them.

]]> By: Lisa http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/sex-and-psych-drugs-young-couples-beware-0292.html/comment-page-1#comment-8982 Lisa Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:45:11 +0000 http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/?p=292#comment-8982 I have not hadsex in 10 years. I feel like a block of wood. Not to mention the hideous other side effects. God help us all I have not hadsex in 10 years. I feel like a block of wood. Not to mention the hideous other side effects. God help us all

]]> By: Doe http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/sex-and-psych-drugs-young-couples-beware-0292.html/comment-page-1#comment-8965 Doe Sat, 06 Jun 2009 09:27:55 +0000 http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/?p=292#comment-8965 Thanks for this article, Evelyn. I have been very effected by this side effect--to me, the most disturbing one of them all. I have been withdrawing/tapering for a couple of years now. It's an excruciating slow process, but I am low enough on the drug now that I can feel sexual sensitivity and the ability to bond slowly returning, although not nearly what it once was, I'm hoping it will fully return (although in all reality it probably won't return fully because I started taking the drugs in my sexual prime, at around 23, and by time time I'm finally fully tapered off, I'll be in my early 40's, with the sexual hormones lowering...I feel I've lost a lot of years of that soulfulness that comes with that sort of bond. It makes me sad. And angry. I think you are so right about a massive class action suit. I've daydreamed about that alot, but always imagine being laughed out of the courtroom. Thanks for this article, Evelyn. I have been very effected by this side effect–to me, the most disturbing one of them all. I have been withdrawing/tapering for a couple of years now. It's an excruciating slow process, but I am low enough on the drug now that I can feel sexual sensitivity and the ability to bond slowly returning, although not nearly what it once was, I'm hoping it will fully return (although in all reality it probably won't return fully because I started taking the drugs in my sexual prime, at around 23, and by time time I'm finally fully tapered off, I'll be in my early 40's, with the sexual hormones lowering…I feel I've lost a lot of years of that soulfulness that comes with that sort of bond. It makes me sad. And angry. I think you are so right about a massive class action suit. I've daydreamed about that alot, but always imagine being laughed out of the courtroom.

]]> By: Naturalgal http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/sex-and-psych-drugs-young-couples-beware-0292.html/comment-page-1#comment-8722 Naturalgal Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:57:34 +0000 http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/?p=292#comment-8722 This is the correct website sorry, disregard the first one.It is horrendous what the side effects of medications can do to a marriage….and I am talking long lasting side effects. This is robbing couples of that “special magic” that they should share within a marriage. To me initmacy is like the glue that holds things together. It is an act of healing and acceptance. To tell a person that need to take a med without telling them it might affect HIS or her sex life and marriage is wrong. Many men will not admit this has happened to them…it is such a blow to their ego. For many, there has been no cure…years later. There is a yahoo support group for this: http://health.dir.groups.yahoo.com/group/SSRIsex/ This is the correct website sorry, disregard the first one.It is horrendous what the side effects of medications can do to a marriage….and I am talking long lasting side effects. This is robbing couples of that “special magic” that they should share within a marriage.

To me initmacy is like the glue that holds things together. It is an act of healing and acceptance. To tell a person that need to take a med without telling them it might affect HIS or her sex life and marriage is wrong.

Many men will not admit this has happened to them…it is such a blow to their ego.

For many, there has been no cure…years later.

There is a yahoo support group for this:
http://health.dir.groups.yahoo.com/group/SSRIsex/

]]> By: Amy Philo http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/sex-and-psych-drugs-young-couples-beware-0292.html/comment-page-1#comment-8784 Amy Philo Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:55:56 +0000 http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/?p=292#comment-8784 I think they are known as "divorce pills." I think they are known as "divorce pills."

]]> By: naturalgal@columnist.com http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/sex-and-psych-drugs-young-couples-beware-0292.html/comment-page-1#comment-8721 naturalgal@columnist.com Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:55:47 +0000 http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/?p=292#comment-8721 It is horrendous what the side effects of medications can do to a marriage....and I am talking long lasting side effects. This is robbing couples of that "special magic" that they should share within a marriage. To me initmacy is like the glue that holds things together. It is an act of healing and acceptance. To tell a person that need to take a med without telling them it might affect HIS or her sex life and marriage is wrong. Many men will not admit this has happened to them...it is such a blow to their ego. For many, there has been no cure...years later. There is a yahoo support group for this: http://health.dir.groups.yahoo.com/group/SSRIsex/ It is horrendous what the side effects of medications can do to a marriage….and I am talking long lasting side effects. This is robbing couples of that “special magic” that they should share within a marriage.

To me initmacy is like the glue that holds things together. It is an act of healing and acceptance. To tell a person that need to take a med without telling them it might affect HIS or her sex life and marriage is wrong.

Many men will not admit this has happened to them…it is such a blow to their ego.

For many, there has been no cure…years later.

There is a yahoo support group for this:
http://health.dir.groups.yahoo.com/group/SSRIsex/

]]> By: kimbriel http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/sex-and-psych-drugs-young-couples-beware-0292.html/comment-page-1#comment-8715 kimbriel Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:33:32 +0000 http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/?p=292#comment-8715 thank you so much for this article. I have suffered so much at the hands of psychiatry. thank you so much for this article. I have suffered so much at the hands of psychiatry.

]]> By: Evelyn Pringle http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/sex-and-psych-drugs-young-couples-beware-0292.html/comment-page-1#comment-8770 Evelyn Pringle Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:52:14 +0000 http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/?p=292#comment-8770 I think a massive nation wide class action is in order for the people whose sex lives have been ruined due to the sexual side effects of these drugs. I think a massive nation wide class action is in order for the people whose sex lives have been ruined due to the sexual side effects of these drugs.

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