I Feel Dead Inside Because of PSSD | Interview with Sean
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#pssd
I've been absolutely devastated by PSSD. Thank you to Josef Witt-Doerring for giving sufferers a platform to tell their story in their own words and convey the nightmare of this condition.
I'm sorry buddy!
Buddy see it positive, you are saving a lot of money as you don´t need hookers anymore.
@@emu1028you were on the surviving anti depressents forum right
i just got prescribed prozac and nervous....@@emu1028
I dont know why i still thinking about overmethylation problem ... This drug have a lot of fluor and methyl groups. Increase methylation,because they are toxins. You cant use folinic acid, because IT turn on sert gene.its opposite to ssri . High folste and niacin remove methyl groups and make chromatin more free to transcryption. We have a lot natural ihdac.a lot of people have the same reaction form ashwaganda( ashwaganda cause Cooper overload what's the natural for overmethylation )and SAMe ( the opposite is s adenozylohomocysteine -strong demethylation suplement). I can be in wrong.epignetics changes from SSRI arę reversible.
After finding out about PSSD about a year and a half ago, I realized I have been suffering from PSSD for over 27 years and it is sheer hell. Knowing that there is no treatment for it leaves me feeling like what was brought up in this interview: What is the point? I have no motivation and no more energy/desire to appear "normal" to anyone anymore. I just want my life to end.
Thank you for doing these interviews, Dr. Witt-Doerring.
27 years!?
How did you find you had PSSD?
Best wishes.
@@ajax700 I wish I could remember exactly. I may have been looking online about depression and anhedonia and discovered it in one of the links.
Circumcision destroyed your sexuality, not meds
@@claudiakramer4516Antidepressants cause permanent s3xual dysfunctions
insanely well articulated i've been suffering with this for 6 years now
Any improvements
Going on seven for me. I ran from the Rothschildes Big Pharma nightmare after being put on high doses of opiates, Adderall, Cymbalta, benzos, and more when my doctor left, and I was being scrutinized and treated like a drug addict. I have been in bed ever since. I did get an initial benefit from Cymbalta that promptly left when it became generic. Adderall also went from being a help to a nightmare at that time. Now, I have no life.
It’s modern day chemical castrastion, these drug companies need to be held accountable.
That actually makes a lot of sense... Could they perhaps be actively trying to keep people with this sort of illnesses outside of the genepool? Seems like just about every medication which targets mental ilnesses, not just depression all ends up being detrimental down there...
I call in raping our minds. Horrific. To hard to bare some of the stories. This beautiful Doctor is following the Great Dr peter Breggin who had led way for a lot of young Doctors. I love this Dr Peter Breggin is getting old and will soon leave us. Finding this Doctor made me cry because when Peter has gone we have a voice. God bless you 🙏 protect this young Dr at all costs. Love from Australia 🇦🇺 ❤
@@estelled389Australia has the worst mental health system..
Thank you both so much for this interview!! So many of us are suffering in silence with THE EXACT SAME SYMPTOMS as this guest!! It’s LITERALLY hell on earth!!
This and other things, believe me, its not just pssd but one thing is true, they are all hell. And all made worse or brought on by medications.
@@madelynhernandez7453 Exactly! There are other conditions that cause the same symptoms (PFS, PAS, LC, etc)
Truth 🙏
Many sufferers will end their lives because of Pssd!!! I have had it for over 2 years with complete sexual loss and ED. I am romantically unable to have a relationship or even enjoy my life anymore, these psychiatric drugs are absolutely poison and should definitely be banned psychiatry is still killing people every day.
I have the same, no desire to have sex, no feeling in the penis, just nothing at all, what a living nightmare this pure hell
😢😢
@@andre.s7224 im a suffer myself and what you say is true, and because your medical records show you have taken antidepressants in the past, they will blame the victim for not taking there tablets, the cause of death will be " suicide " with no mention of pssd
Thanks for another interview. We can only hope that one day we will see some treatment for PSSD. Every day is an act of courage in the face of what feels like a hopeless situation for us sufferers.
Another great interview, thank you Josef and Sean. Sean did a really good job of articulating himself and on behalf of us sufferers. I relate to everything said as I'm in the same boat but to emphasize on the change in personality type, there's no impulsiveness to want to go out, there's no satisfaction or feeling of benefit in being in the company of others, regardless of whether they're friends or family. There's simply a barrier, it's like you're in your own bubble and being encased means you can't truly interact with the outside world. This stuff is so hard to explain. It's like trying to explain death, you're never around to experience it and relay your experiences to others until it happens to you. Majority of people will never live to experience what it's like to physiologically live without emotions and numb genitals. Many people will nod their heads as if they understand, but you can't truly empathize unless you experience it, which is a big issue for us. To say to someone you FEEL like a 90 year old with an oxygen mask, but LOOK like a mid 20's healthy adult is just baffling, but it's the truth.
This interview is a blatant demonstration of humans as evil and mindless creatures. Reminds me of the diagnosis known as Stockholm Syndrome. Amazing.
This interviewee is very brave, and so thank you and Dr. Josef. People need to be apprised of the effects of going to doctors and taking these psychotropic so-called medications, and the real harm which can ensue.
Spot on, it’s completely alienating and bizarre.
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Thankyou so much for these interviews, makes myself and I'm sure others feel less alone in this
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Thank you so much Sean and Dr. Witt Doerring for speaking about the potential horrific outcome of taking an antidepressant.
Sean, unfortunately I can relate to 100% to your words.
Originally I took Zoloft for PMDS for 3 months, then I only had a mild form of PSSD.
Unfortunately I was devasted enough by this loss and my family and doctors put me under pressure to take more medications. After weeks of discussions I took Bupropion, which is supposed to be "perfectly safe" for pssd. How wrong! It made my state immensely worse! Now I have severe emotional blunting (can't even feel a thing for my family or cry) and severe sexual numbness.
All I live for is being myself again in the future! I wish nothing more than finding a cure.
I hope your video brings us one stepp closer to this goal.
Thanks so much Sean. This is exactly word for word what happened with me!
Keep up the interviews if possible. All us need a voice
We do, have you done one?
@@simonwright6163 I would definitely be willing to share my story. Male in my 40’s.
@@JC-xx5dmYou should do it!
Very, very well-articulated account of Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction. Great point re feeling as numb down below as you do in the brain. Such a strange condition, hopefully we get to the bottom of this soon.
Antidepressants (SSRI/SSNRI) working mechanism is that beginning with one single dose the ZNS is flooded with serotonine , due to the blocking of the reuptake. They effect the 5HT receptors and the brain reacts against the higher serotonine levels with a downregulation of the different 5HT receptors what leads to the typical withdrawals or side effects, when taking or reducing the drug.
1. 5HT2A : Anxiety, insomnia, overstimulation, emotional numbness also due to downregulation of dopamine levels, when serotonine levels are too high
2. 5HT1A: Effects on autonomic functions such as heartbeat, breathing , body temperature, sweating, vegetative nervous system
3. 5HT3: Vomitting, gut disorders, change of bowl movements
4. 5HT2C: Sexual dysfuntions, PSSD, loss of appetite, loss of body feeling
Furthermore we have 14 different serotonine receptors in the body, which regulate different systems or body functions together with other transmitters and hormones in the body, which are affected through changes of serotonine levels in the ZNS...
Thank you Sean for speaking out! Please keep doing these interviews Dr. Witt-Doerring. It's so important that this issue be dragged into the light.
Thank you for your full and clear account of this awful injury. Things will change, thanks to people like you.
I got my PSSD from 1 pill of Cymbalta. I have sexual dysfunction, emotional blunting and anhedonia. 1,5 years into that hell now.
From just one pill?😮
1,5 ??
Oh 1.5 ?
did you recover
Cymbalta is a horrible one, going on 3 years now
@@shutoffsoulhow?! everyday is torture. how are you doing it
I’ve been suffering with PSSD for a decade. It has been essentially ruined my romantic life permanently as far as I can tell because I can’t seem to find a fix for PSSD. Shortly after I found I’d been chemically castrated by these SSRIs/SNRIs I found a BBS out of the UK with hundreds of others who had lost sexual function.
If you want to know how the “genital numbness” feels it feels like at its worst like it’s not your penis you’re touching. The severity comes and goes. Stimulants can effect the level of “numbness” sometimes, but a full “useable” erection is impossible with PSSD. Surprisingly orgasm returned to some extent after many years but without erection.
Also, as your guest says, the ability to enjoy oneself while taking these drugs is massively reduced. I don’t recommend drinking as a pastime but these drugs will take you to a place where you can be say drunk but emotionless. I believe alcohol tends to exaggerate emotions. This stuff Sri will do EXSCTLY the opposite when combined with alcohol and OTHER recreational drugs.
Be warned this all can happen to anyone. Avoid these drugs at any cost.
I am glad you are covering a wide variety of ailments. I seriously think they need to give us all money whom they ruined our lives and also those families whose family member commited suicide. Money will never fix anything but shit pay somehow. The fact they use innocent animals to test these inhumane drugs is really killing me too.
Thank you for talking about this. I was put on meds when I was 15. I sometimes wonder who I would have been without it.
The same. I would perhaps been involved and engaged woth the world and people, following my passions, music, writing... actually pursuing what I cherish the most. We have been murdered, this is like killing somebody.
ME TOO i mourn for that girl
@@TalRachman wrong. dead people don't suffer
thank you both
Thank you both so much❤
great work!
Thanks for speaking up Sean
thanks for speaking !
I experienced this-ONE tablet (I’m female)--doing keto helped-high dose vit c did too !-a tens machine down the spine and abdomen etc has helped-I see it as a toxin-damage-so-detox and REBUILD-use loads of coconut oil down the spine-and in hot drinks-and loads of traditional meats-lamb -beef chicken with the fats-look into western a price foundation (podcasts) cream butter lard/duck fat-the body NEEDS cholesterol to heal-to transmit messages across nerves through the fatty shealth around every cell-!!! Do jacuzzis and plunge into cold water-to stimulate-hot/cold water/showers etc-and cause sweating-it helps-but take time but does and WIll come back
Thank you!!!! I was wondering about diet!
Keto and Carnivore diets have saved many people. Whatever your doc tells you, do the opposite.
Magnesium and probiotics are also very important. And fat is needed to metabolise vitamins.
@@tendingourgardendid it help you ?
Thanks for speaking out
Omg. Yes! Me after one pill I would feel awful and the doctor was like no thats impossible, these meds take weeks to work and I was like bullshit I am feeling something very wrong. Sadly I was a teenager and pretty much forced by my parents. I was on them 9 years. It was horrific. I am 37 and I have never had an orgasm. But that is not important compared to hell I am in right now. I want help but I cant find it anywhere. I think I will either die from this agony and other symptoms or I will just end it myself.
How are you now
Sorry you have been going through this for so long. I'm in the same place after one pill. Don't know how long I can take this existence.
@@maurice8180how long
Hang in there, this happens to so many
Oh God I'm so sorry 😢for you all. The pain they have put upon us. Maybe the will look back in 100 years and say what the hell did we do to those poor souls 😢
I was like that as well for almost 6 years and I have recovered. Hang in there!
Thank you
Very brave Sean!
PSSD is an adverse reaction. It's not the same thing as the normal sexual dysfunction when taking ssri's. It's some form of damage instead of adaption.
I can't do this anymore. I don't want to live.
Same im so close to doing it
Have you tried vitamins? Like horny goat weed, maca, etc?
You guys alive?
Sorry to bring religion into it but praying helps it really does. You just have to be patient God might not answer all requests but I believe God does listen!! Also I'd recommend keto diet. Look up Chris palmer M.D
@@hotbuttered7711 you're not sorry to bring religion into this if you commented just to bring religion into this!
They don't know exactly the working mechanism of an antidepressant but can always say without a doubt that some side effects aren't possible.
After 5 years of cipralex, I developed premature ejaculation and its been 2 years since I stopped it and there is no improvement. I feel jumpy, like in a flight fight mode quite often and my ocd got worse. Its also hard for me to focus, like a brain fog. Thanks for sharing your story Sean, you are so brave.
Is your premature ejaculation improved, if yes how?
@@makaamirkukda Im not 100% sure, maybe a really slight improvement but still huge issue
I have genital numbness from being circummsised, not realated to SSRIs but seems to be a bit of a taboo so I can totally relate to having a medical intervention and then having adverse effects!
I’ve experienced that too. Have you heard of foreskin restoration? I’d look into it if I were you. It can help get back some of that sensitivity. The process takes years, but even an incomplete “restoration” can be beneficial. I have to say though, even though I feel kind of numb down there, I still definitely have sexual desire. I can’t imagine just completely losing that part of myself. It’s unthinkable.
@@leeallen3633 yup , it's a bit shit !
Thanks a lot big pharma...
Maybe going on and off SSRIs is more risky than just taking one and staying on it. I've seen quite a few people like this, who get bad reactions the second or third time they take one.
Being dependent for life on a very damaging and very addictive drug is not a great idea.
Best wishes.
I was put on the same one on three occasions and I had a bad reaction the second and third time. I’m now tapering off extremely slowly. It’s called kindling.
This is not necessarily true. The issue could be repeated or long term use increases risk, rather than going on and off. Also, typically drs increase doses on the second and third time because of "Prozac poop out", and that too may increase risk. There are likely many factors and we need research on it.
@@mcb00 more research?
The only thing needed is to ban these damaging drugs.
They don't work as antidepressants.
They ruin patients lives.
They cause PSSD and other severe persistent damage.
They cause shootings and su1c1des
What else do you need to research?
I always tell everyone, Do NOT touch those shits. Just DONT! But out of desperation people do. And then I am also seen as a bad horrible person for misadvising people. I just want to save them further suffering. I know many people are not religious, but I often wonder if there is more to even the beginning of any anxiety, of course there is all this physical stuff but I wonder if this is accompanied by a sort of massive spiritual attack on humanity, or its piggyback riding of it. Idk. I may be the only lunatic who was wondered this. If someone else has, please leave me your comments.
His past use could have been a factor. Like for example with benzos and the kindling phenomenon, every time you go on and off the drug in your life time makes the next exposure more risky.
Been on lexapro and Wellbutrin for 2 years and I had no idea that emotional blunting was a side effect. I just thought that’s how antidepressants made you feel. Thankful this symptom seems like it’s receding with my taper.
Hey guys , was feeling the same. Been taking the last 3 days psilocybin before sleeping.. first evening 3-5 grams, second 1-2grams, third 2g.
If I just don't want to deal with the hurt, I just take it before sleeping , and I feel I can distance myself now from guilt feelings and self pity. Also get assurance that what some people did to me was unfair and not my fault.
I regained my Appetite and can clearly feel what I wanted to eat and follow it, I felt that my body was extreme tired, I slept alot on 3 day. I guess it was 16-17 hours. I really feel refreshed. I gained understanding how important food and sleep is and to allow myself to eat and sleep.
I had sever cptsd, still somethings trigger me, yet to be able to don't touch those negative thought has already after 3 days a huge impact.
Head up guys🕊️
00:02 Sean developed PSSD after taking SSRIs for anxiety.
02:17 Struggles with medical dismissal and emotional numbness due to PSSD
06:28 Immediate onset of numbness and emotional numbness after taking Celexa
08:29 Effects of PSSD on genital sensation and emotional blunting.
12:52 PSSD causes a significant decrease in motivation and emotional response.
14:55 Effects of cannabis and alcohol on PSSD symptoms
18:53 Challenges of emotional numbness due to PSSD
20:52 Struggling with PSSD has made relationships and joy impossible.
24:26 Struggling to communicate difference due to PSSD
26:13 Experiencing serious side effects from medication.
29:59 Struggling with emotional blunting due to PSSD
31:51 Excessive serotonin from hops worsened sexual dysfunction for Sean.
35:52 Discovering PSSD after experiencing emotional numbness
37:50 Concerns with Psychiatry's approach to antidepressants
41:12 Impact of PSSD on emotional and sexual functions
43:04 PSSD causing suicidal thoughts within the community.
46:34 PSSD reactions to dopamine stimulants
48:25 Spread awareness about PSSD and be cautious with medications
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That's eye opening for people watching it
Let's hope there is more research on this area so we can find a cure!
esperamos com muita fé
Nerve damage is permanent
@@user-wm3fc1sk1p and ? how do you know it's a nerve damage that causes PSSD ? no one needs your negativity
I almost died because in emergency they gave me by mistake haldol instead tramadol shot twice in 24 hours, this is atrocious hearing people developed psd
Just discovered this today. Ive never taken SSRIs but this happened to me from chronic anxiety/depression and a week binge partying on alcohol. Then made worse to the point of what hes saying with a migraine attack or so i think. Ive improved since then but was exactly as he discribed. still have numb feeling and inability to be super excited or charged up.
You are a pharma troll
If you haven’t taken ssri . You never get pssd . There something else going on with you
@@MultiMcgurki wouldnt say that, maybe its the same condotion but not cause by ssri
@@com-lj1whlol no chance
Perhaps N Acetyl Cystein could help. It can treat depression and increase circulation. It does loads of good stuff. Perhaps trying a miniscule dose to begin with could mitigate the risk of a bad reaction.
It's scary how much this feels like what I suffer from. I've never taken any drugs for this kind of thing. I did have covid twice. I was considering SSRI's because of how I feel. I don't know what to do.
Functional medicine!
Tragically I was given nortriptyline for trigeminal neuralgia type 2. I finally wavered and took one, made me feel strange, never took it again. Don't know if I ever truly returned to baseline. This was a long time ago.
I think basically what happened is you sustained damage (or more accurately a "decoherence" was induced) between your physical body and your astral body. Or you have distortion of what eg the Golden Dawn called the "aetheric double" (aetheric body). In my case I was already crumbling and there are too many confounders, but what I can say is that I only feel emotions in dreams. In the waking world it's all fairly blurred, blunted. Mind you I can detect macrostates and emotions by indirect means, but they are sort of invisible. Muted as you said, though not entirely. So you have to ask yourself, if dreams are generated by the brain, how is it that in that state stimuli run through the same machineyr would suddenly be experienced differently, only to disappear instantly on waking? My conclusion for several reasons is that the the body and mind together form the psychophysical proxy for your core awareness, your "I". With them out of the way things start working normally. Sexually things function fine, though I lack pronounced attraction. Always kind of did, hard to describe. Then again I was basically isolated and tortured for a prolonged period, where the maim and drain medical industrial complex tried to take their cut too. The pain was years in and unbearable, but I am ashamed I took even one of those pills. And I think that's the key, shame and consent.
Try moving your mind's body and feeling the "you behind you", reach inside your body with your mind's hands. Once you can do this you'll probably begin to realize that your aetheric body is not coherent with your physical body, it won't be overlayed properly and will probably be off to the side or otherwise distorted. Move it and forcibly merge it with your physical body, put them in the same place. You may not like it, but that's the most reasonable explanation and solution. The mechanistic, materialistic models just aren't adequate to describe the persistence and depth of the effect. Maybe they dose it with metals or something, I don't know. Either way it seems like energetic damage, energy isn't distriobuted properly nor flowing through your body, and hence your experience of it is diminished. You're also absolutely right, if you switch off somehting in your body something in the mind switches off as well. Interestingly the description of the skin being like rubber is relateable, I had that a few times.
I also feel like this sexually a lot. But I take benzos and trazadone and subutex. And I’ve been on other drugs for years. My brain is totally retired now and I never wanna leave the house. I don’t find joy in much… it’s crazy. Not to this extent… but it’s definitely a thing with me. I knew it’s from the drugs all along. But even ecstasy and coke do nothing for me. Heroin even doesn’t hit like it used to. But alot of heroin isn’t even heroin anymore. It’s mostly fentanyl which isn’t as euphoric as heroin.
This sounds just like neuropathy. I can't feel much anymore in my hands and feet, plus my whole body feels 1/3 Less and I can do minor surgery on myself now. I have the emotional blunting too but I am not disturbed by it. I had always been overly emotional and this numbness is a relief for me. Finally, I am under control. Sure I'm kind of a female Spock, but it sure beats having all those crazy emotions that I used to experience. I know that "not existing" feeling and that is a problem. I still take wellbutrin and Effexor because I can't get off of either without relapsing into depression or having panic attacks come back. I wish I had stayed on Benzos sometimes. They worked well, but I'm low income and medicade won't cover Valium or Ativan anymore. I cant afford to see the private docs who only take cash and will prescribe what works (instead of Effexor or SSRIs.) .
Genetics can be different even in a brother and a sister or a brother and brother genetics do matter. Everybody that I have seen that has had this issue has an MTH FR, double mutation that has a reduced factor of methylation especially a C6 77T homozygous mutation
I believe we are all chemistry sets. You never know how something affects you. I had a severe reaction to vitamin B1? Not as serious as you.
Do you have people around you that understand and still want be around people for practice?
Hi doc. Just a cursory observation from these case studies - all seem to report covid infection around onset of symptoms. We now know about viral RNA in brain tissues of cadavers, ongoing discovery of various neurologic deficits etc. Perhaps some interplay happening.
A lot of people with PSSD have never experienced covid or long covid, therefore it doesn’t seem to correlate to the condition
You might be correct. I did not take SSRIs. I had Covid in 2020, and have had neurological damage ever since. It made me apathetic, and the emotional blunting is awful.
For me it happend after second time paxil and i forgot to take the med and be in wd . Noticed extreme pre mature ejaculation , afterwards decided to go on it again to remove the PE only to notice numbness which never resolved after discontinue the drug ..
I never heard about this before, but I’m autistic and this is how I have felt my whole life. I feel like I’m immune to any antidepressants as I get no effect and no side effects.
I'm curious to know if the taste of food is still enjoyable or if that is blunted too. Thanks for the interview.
No it’s not, everything that we once enjoyed is gone
I can still taste food. However, there's not much motivation behind wanting to eat certain foods. Maybe dopamine isn't working? I don't know.
me too the same
Can you tell the symptoms of 'Long Covid' that you had?
same here, it' doesn't get better... you just stop caring
I’m curious about the possible interaction with the vaccine and or COVID. Was this man vaccinated? Were there any other drugs he was taking? Could there have been an interaction with the Prozac? But mostly, I’m curious about his use of the vaccine. If and when he took it.
Pssd had existed since before Covid.
Hi everyone, first, I wanna thank everybody who is responsible for keeping this learning space available for all of us.
I am social worker who has been working in mental health for the last few years.
It is incredibly disheartening to hear about the damage that service providers and clinicians have caused to so many consumers around the world.
One thing that I have noticed about a few of the consumers who disclosed their experiences with BIND or other protracted withdrawal conditions is that they talk about their experience of distress, but none of them seem to display their distress in their affect (none seem to cry, or display anger, or much emotion regarding what they are saying).
Is this what you mean about feeling blunted? Sorry for the question in case it may seem irrelevant. I just genuinely want to understand when you say " I can't feel anything".
I once had a client who was 16 and had been on antidepressants and who was highly suicidal. And I remember clearly her saying that she did not feel anything and that she just did not care about anything. I remember being intrigued about the fact that she never cried or seemed distressed in session. And I honestly believe that may be the reason why her parents thought that she simply wanted attention and did not believe that she was really suicidal.
Thus I genuinely would like to know whether people experience this numbness ever cry or show anger in their affect.
Thank you so much for this space
Hi! That’s actually me in the video. I just wanted to visit the comment section here to see if anyone had questions. So when your patient explained that she can’t feel anything, she is referring to emotional blunting. That’s a common side effect of antidepressants, but it’s NOT common to see it persist after getting off them, because then it could indicate PSSD. But anyway, It feels as if you are no longer a person. You are living but you arent. For example, it’s like watching a TV on mute, it makes it boring right? We can’t cry because it’s literally impossible to feel anything, including sadness, happiness, empathy, etc… This is why your patient felt that way because antidepressants can and will do that to people.
@@sc.1282hey can you please reply me . I am 17 years old and I have been put on antidepressants. Lexpro and agomelatine. I am facing reduced sex drive and erectile dysfunction. And my sensations are reduced around 30%. Is it possible for me to regain it after quitting anti depressant. I am so sorry you had to go through this. I wish it all never had happened to anybody . I am going to kill myself in few days. I am scared to death from being asexual. Please can you guide me to any support group or something😢
I had a weird, panicky, high anxiety reaction to the first time I took celexa but luckily it went away.
How could this medication ever be tested on moral grounds?
I was on a psych ward when Prozac was the drug of choice, Nirvana time ❤,....I spoke candidly with the guys on the ward who just said they felt nothing! All their desires, libido, gone with the freaking drug.
I'm a few minutes in and still don't know what PSSD is. What does it stand for please?
Could you suggest a plausible mechanism for a single pill causing this level of damage ? Been watching your content with interest to explore this medical hypothesis but this one felt a little off and I’d prefer a bit of oppositional questioning if possible . The person you are interviewing seems to clearly have emotional responses throughout at least from his body language , speech pattern , intonation etc . Also there has been basically no discernible impact on person daily activities etc . Lots of confounding factors too , particularly the long Covid.
How do i live with it having depression and anhedonia pssd
I also got PSSD from totally just 2 pills. Same exact symptoms as Sean. Life is totally ruined and just over.
What SSRI
@@Lionsmaneisdangerous Vortioxetine, 5mg
Same, I would actually have co codamol and feel euphoric, not when I was on Ssris.
My doctor treated it with Proviron 25 mg daily 60 days, low dose Cialis 5mg for 30 days daily then every other day. He also had me use topical adapalene for a week. I started having erections, and feeling again within a week. I know it sounds like a strange combination, but it works.
Are you fully recovered??
I think ill call it a day..my life is entirely ruined..
Fuck
100% me!
To anyone reading this. I think it is a blood flow issue (autoimmune issue affecting vessels). I have had some success with cialis (it helped break the cemented brain feeling a little bit). Extended fasting has also helped. My pssd was from ritalin. I think we all have "low grade" serotonin syndrome.
Intresring bro. Do you think abilify would have this same effect. Do you think cialis would help me too?
@@zvvv8792 Interesting question. I don't know anything about abilify other than what I just read on wiki saying it is a form of antipsychotic which share many of the side effects found in ritalin or stimulants, drugs that affect dopamin receptors negatively - directly down-regulating them as is the case with antipsychotics? While stimulants overwhelm the receptors enough for them to down-regulate themselves in the end (i.e. too much dopamine, or serotonine syndrome) they therefore end up having the same effect in the end if you are unlucky - too little dopamine and a damaged nervous system.
I absolutely think cialis may help you as it seems the active substance in ability (as with seemingly most Psych drugs) is a vasoconstrictor (meaning they negatively affect blood flow control). Google "is abilify a vasoconstrictor" and the first result, a study from 2013, seems to suggest this relation to aripiprazole (the active substance in abilify): the study is titled Worsened hypertension control induced by aripirazole.
So anything you can do to increase blood flow should be beneficial (as it is in general really). You can probably safely rake cialis daily or semi-daily at 5 or 10mg (but start with 5) or maybe even viagra, which is virtually the same thing but stronger but then with a greater risk of side effects. Be careful or refrain from taking either if you have heart problems (or have tinnitus, or before working out). Fasting may be helpful as well as it is good for cardiovascular health. Doing cardio of course. Taking vitamin k2 combined with vitamin d is great as well. Vitamin E is good too (take separately). And magnesium, zink and vitamin C vombined is great for your nervous system (don't combine with vitamin d though). You can also supplement with bcaa (a combination of vitamins and l-citrulline), just be careful combining this with cialis or viagra as it amplifies the effects greatly. And sleep, duh :)
Best of luck.
Ps. How long have you been off?
@@zvvv8792I'm sorry. I wrote a long in depth reply that youtube removed. Unfortunately I didn't save it. Basically, yes, I think so. Including fasting, bcaa supplementation, vitamin e, vitamin k2 with vitamin d (don't take with vitamin e). And magnesium, zink and vitamin c (not to be taken with the other two, k2+d and E). Don't take cialis or viagra if you have heart problems. Take cialis 5 or 10mg every other day. Avoid working out rhe same day. Google abilify and vasoconstriction for more information in a studie from 2013.
Take breaks every now and tgen from cialis for your brain to adjust to go off it.
So im not exactly understanding, does this mean permanent damage? Forever?
Most likely. PSSD means persistent side effects even after stopping an antidepressant.
i have pssd as well for 6 years now :(
Any hope?
@@Native722 Not really :(
Try other antidepressants till you find one that works, TMS cured me right sided low frequency, can now be excited, feel, and have lust again. So it’s depression do whatever you can do to cure it
@@znarkz No I will not try other antidepressants and I tried a few already in the past, none worked. I'm not a guinea pig or a test subject, "trying another drug" is a sure fire way of entrapping on this crap for a long time or even life, NOPE NEVER.
whats tms ?@@znarkz
try fasting and probiotics, they are amazing for brain health
Tried it. A lot of things don’t work for PSSD unfortunately
@@sc.1282what exactly have you tried
would be interesting to know if he has feelings while sleeping/dreaming?
Surely he has feelings because he is in spirit not in the physical body. When I was experiencing emotional dullness, I had feelings in my dreams
I have pssd with absolutely no feelings in dreams. It's funny because I'm not affected by what happen my dreams my dreams have changed. I can't have a bad/anxiety dream because if something "bad" happens it doesn't bother me emotionally and the dream just kinda goes in another direction rather than the plot building. Before pssd I'd have real bad anxiety in dreams. Also in real life when people die I feel nothing
What does pssd stand for exactly?
Post sexual ssri syndrome .
I wonder if there's an effect on the opioid receptors? He talks about no euphoria when drinking, which I've heard naloxone can do.
He mentions dopamine but idk it's not clear to me that alcohol releasing dopamine would be the culprit here.
Have you looked into functional medicine for this?
Unfortunately, there's no treatment for PSSD
Happened to me.. One month of ssri.. But feeling got better afyer about 6 months
My emotions never came back
😢
@@TECHNOSINNER. Are you sure you're not just depressed?
@@at5297 Depressed? I took antidepressants for gastropathy (off label use). I've never been depressed.
Med induced emotional numbness is not depression.
@@TECHNOSINNER. you got depression induced, it’s still depression. Do what ever it takes for you to feel better, and don’t go on forum read about other ahit stories, that is what fucks your mind, you don’t read the good stories do ya?
Why would it be miserable without any emotions? Isn't misery an emotion?
People talk about super hot weather being miserable. It just means bad.
19:24 Nightmare 😢
Genital numbness can also be caused by a problem with one of the nerves that goes from the spine to the genitals. It's worth looking into.
Jeez it would be good to actually know what PSSD is somewhere in the title or video copy 🙄
I HAVE BEEN SIX MONTHS OFF ZOLOFT AND STILL LIVING IN HELL!
Maybe something like acupuncture or Thai massage will help. You never know.
when the doctors dismiss you PLEASE send them the studies done on the subject and information about how the EU recognizes it!!!
Shaun...
Can someone explain to me why PSSD occurs in some patients whilst other patients who take SSRI's resume previous sexual function after discontinuation?
Nobody functions the same, they just dont notice because they dont have it as severe
We are not the same model from the same factory✌🏻
@@flooriiian Really? Then what would a weak case of pssd be like?
Took anti depressants on and off over the years. Function always came back.. not this time though.. its been 2 years
Could the emotional blunting be due the fact that there are sexual dysfunction and issues down there so your mind is not able to ENJOY things anymore since you have this HUGE problem? At least it's what happens to me.. at least what I think.. I'm constantly "feeling" my genital numbness that it feels like I don't have a penis anymore. It's constant into my head so I cannot enjoy anything anymore. My biggest thing in life was to find a GF and have a family so without this possibility at the moment nothing matters anymore. I'm 35 year old now so around me everybody is getting married and having kids and it's terrible to see. I come home every night and I feel lonely cause I don't have anyone on my side but also nobody to talk with. PSSD makes me super shy and timid and I was very OUTGOING before this happened. I don't enjoy things anymore I can barely laugh.
I'm really really really SORRY Sean! I feel you with every ounces of my heart! Many things that you say are exactly how I feel it... FUCK!
No, I can't feel drugs and alchol anymore.
Med induced emotional numbness is NOT psycological.
Folks how to treat this disease ?
It's a rare disease. Unfortunately no effective treatment available
Pssd
Me too sexual problems from only 2 pils ....I can feel alcahol. En I gate wet dreams with a strong orgasme about 10 Tim's a year..if I wake up the sexdrive is gone ...so it's not psdd...bud the first year i dont feel alcahol + fun in my life + no orgasme...the first orgasme en sexdrive I gate in a esketamine trip afther the trip
I feel only a sexdrive normal orgasme like before the pills one amphetamine... now I gate dexamfitamine pills and viagra from my dokter I can help my self. bud before the antypsigotca sex feels more real
I got cured by right side low frequency TMS, The feeling people describe as emotional numbing is the core symptom of depression, so if you cure your depression you cure your PSSD. Don’t stop until you feel well
"Long Convid" and may other horrible side effects are caused by the hot shots.
I absolutely hate it that he did not try the Wellbutrin I was going through what you was going through to a T! And Wellbutrin helped so much!!!
[This guy has LEDs up in his room. If you deal with anxiety or visual sensitivity or even nothing at all- the LEDs are constantly flashing. Unless you get the non flash LEDs then you are being strobed at a very high rate with the light. Regular lights (like the original style Christmas lights) are not constantly flashing. ]
What does that have to do with anything? you’re reaching
@@sc.1282[ Its a general note for people dealing with the sensitivity of withdrawing from these type of meds. People who just leave these things up while dealing with light sensitivity should consider what they are strobing themselves with. This is probably more for benzo but it was on my mind generally.]
Bro what
Have you ever tried hurting yourself just to see if you could feel something?
Unfortunately for this guy sexual recovery is not likely. On the reddit forum there are, as far as I’ve seen, zero cases for healing in regards to genital numbness
Not true. I've seen a few on Reddit. You may have missed them.
@@mcb00not true
How about vitamins?!
Reddit fucks your mind, you guys don’t read the good stories, stop the rumination, talk to your psychiatrist
A todos los que sufren PSSD tienen que buscar un medicamento que sea recaptador de la dopamina y empezar a tomarlo en bajas dosis y aumentar gradualmente, esto para que estimular los receptores dopaminergicos, si aumenta la dopamina le resta el efecto a la serotonina que es la que el cerebro sigue utilizando fuertemente despues de tomar ISRS (recaptadores de serotonina) ya que la serotonina esta relacionada con la calma, la tranquilidad, sueño, y la dopamina con el placer, el sexo, las emociones, tomenlo y veran como poco a poco recuperaran sus emociones y placer sexual, tuve el mismo problema PSDD y tomo Bupropion y me ha mejorado en un 50% llevo 2 meses en el tratamiento, creo que lo hare por 3 o 4 meses maximo ya que no quiero tener un desbalance y que pase algo mas, Bupropion es recomendado en 150mg o maximo 300mg pero no les de miedo tomar 450mg ya que si tomamos 150mg o 300mg no haremos nada porque el cuerpo tiene demasiada serototina y lo que queremos es restarle su efecto y estimular los recaptadores dopaminergicos, inicie el tratamiento con 150mg por una semana, luego 300mg por otra semana, y luego aumente a 450mg creo que con 1 o 2 meses más me encontrare mejor y ya hay que tener paciencia cuando dejemos el tratamiento, el cuerpo seguira recaptando la dopamina y cada vez tendremos menos seritonina en exceso en nuestro cuerpo, llegaremos al balance 🙏🏻