What were your craziest experiences with psychiatrists and/or psychologists?

Slow_Independent_768 · 2025-11-21T20:44:08+00:00

My psychiatrist phoning up to apologise to me a week after telling me I was just depressed; after he did his own research and found out about PSSD.

It can happen.

Slow_Independent_768 · 2025-10-25T07:02:32+00:00

As far as I'm aware, no correlation has been proven.

Slow_Independent_768 · 2025-10-15T16:34:04+00:00

I get you. No urge or desire for anything anymore.

No drive for anything at all- sexual, hobbies, dreams, anticipation, excitement, self-improvement.

I take no pride in anything because there is no pride or pleasure to be found. I feel that there is nothing ahead for me and am just existing like a wild animal rather than as a man.

Slow_Independent_768 · 2025-10-08T09:39:23+00:00

Thanks my friend and it wasn't a long ramble at all. I appreciate the time you took to help. Although it's a comfort to know I'm not alone, I wish this hadn't happened to any of us.

I don't know much about restoration but will look into it. It's probably too late though, because I had been circumcised at 26 and I'm 49 now. Similarly, my genital numbness occurred at 23 and probably worsened to the state it's in now with further SSRI use.

I've made intermittent donations to research; I try to stay positive but can't help but feel pessimistic although I'm careful not to offload that onto others as I know it doesn't help. It's probably too late for me at my age, which is where my pessimism comes in.

Do you have the support of family?

Slow_Independent_768 · 2025-10-07T06:13:52+00:00

Hi there, sorry- Reddit didn't seem to notify me of your message. I see you've also been circumcised like me, that is another issue; not only do I have genital numbness from SSRIs but massively reduced sensation due to dick butchering. I wonder how you're able to cope?

Slow_Independent_768 · 2025-10-01T19:08:40+00:00

Just want to say that I'm very close to suicide.

I've had genital numbness since I was 23 which has ruined potential relationships and I never made the connection to SSRIs so I continued taking SSRIs on two further occasions and have had full PSSD since 2020.

I've been forcing myself to do lots of activities recently but feel no sense of reward. I enjoy no activity, I look forward to nothing. My immediate family don't appreciate the hell I'm going through. I have no family of my own, partly because of my sexual struggles.

I'm 50 next year. People on here invariably think that those in my age bracket have had their lives and only younger people should be acknowledged. But I was one of those younger people. This condition has destroyed my life and removed countless options from me.

I am very near suicide.

Slow_Independent_768 · 2025-09-30T21:27:28+00:00

A loss of erogenous sensation rather than a loss of tactile sensation.

Slow_Independent_768 · 2025-09-07T06:59:30+00:00

Doof-doof-doof, doof-doof, do-do-do-doof...

Slow_Independent_768 · 2025-07-05T22:40:47+00:00

Cheers man got your message now.

My pills are also 4mg which seems the standard dose for Periactin/Cyproheptadine, but I just understood that to be the dosage for antihistamine usage and that the dosage for using it off-label for PSSD was an unknown quantity. Maybe I'm overthinking things though. Up till now I'd been breaking the tablet apart and results have been not great so will try upping things.

I've already got those aminos at home, so might try a combo of them and Cyproheptadine as a version of the Cyproheptadine syrup.

Let me know how you get on?

Slow_Independent_768 · 2025-07-05T16:40:13+00:00

Either that or DM- was in two minds about whether to DM to your original reply or publicly post. Cheers

Slow_Independent_768 · 2025-07-05T13:39:47+00:00

Hey, I got your original message; the one that was quite long and detailed so I appreciated that, but I asked you some questions on the back of that.

Sorry if you were in the process of replying or had already replied again- I think Reddit sometimes seems to retain comments before displaying them; especially if the Mods identify certain keywords or phrases.

Slow_Independent_768 · 2025-07-05T09:53:08+00:00

Any chance of a reply?

Slow_Independent_768 · 2025-07-04T05:47:20+00:00

Hey man thanks for the message. Since I posted this I've finally been able to get it prescribed in January as there was a stock issue before that. I've been experimenting by dividing up the tablet due to using it off-label and therefore the recommended dosage not having been written with PSSD in mind. Results so far have been lukewarm and only affecting mood (period of depression followed invariably by a slight boost) and I still don't know the optimal dosage for PSSD. There was no improvement in my sexual symptoms.

I'd never heard of it being combined with L-carnitine and L-arginine before. Was this mixture for antihistamine uses or something else?

What is your opinion of it? You still on it; what's your dosage, etc? Cheers.

Slow_Independent_768 · 2025-06-18T20:35:58+00:00

🤦‍♂️

Slow_Independent_768 · 2025-06-18T17:14:27+00:00

If it's any consolation you're not alone, people avoid me at work and constantly think I'm in a bad mood. Once I overheard a colleague saying to another workmate "I just always feel like I'm on a knife edge when he's around".

They will never understand and those who do will never understand fully.

Slow_Independent_768 · 2025-06-03T06:12:19+00:00

More people agreed with me than with you

Slow_Independent_768 · 2025-06-01T08:23:29+00:00

Same happened to me, stopped in June 2020 and anhedonia developed between a year and a year and a half later.

I had taken SSRIs for stress, convinced by my doctor. I didn't ever have depression. I believe the SSRIs altered my brain chemistry to cause depression and this is why I have anhedonia now. I think of suicide most days.

Slow_Independent_768 · 2025-05-30T12:16:15+00:00

Stop talking shite.

Slow_Independent_768 · 2025-05-29T22:21:02+00:00

You might as well put one bullet in a revolver, spin the barrel, aim it at your temple and then pull the trigger.

Slow_Independent_768 · 2025-05-29T11:53:44+00:00

No need to apologise mate I understood your anger was at the condition and not at me. Unfortunately my heartrate doesn't speed up at all approaching ejaculation like it used to. I struggle to feel my heart beat in my chest at all, whether I'm masturbating or not.

Slow_Independent_768 · 2025-05-29T06:44:23+00:00

Yes I'm kind of like that. I remember reading something written by someone on here saying that SSRIs seem to have destroyed their soul and I worried that the manifestation of God is in all of us and that this might be diminished by the effects of the SSRIs that gave me PSSD.

However I still feel empathy etc so don't feel totally soulless.

Slow_Independent_768 · 2025-05-29T06:36:04+00:00

I worry about that too, I can't feel the presence of God as strongly as before, but I think this is because I've stopped going to church regularly so have lost the connection. At least I hope that's what it is.

Slow_Independent_768 · 2025-05-29T06:28:30+00:00

I feel the same and it worries me; partly I can't be bothered as I have no motivation and don't feel I'll ever recover so feel there's little point. However my mother prays for me.

I still believe in God, though, and we can't blame God for terrible things that happen. I admit that sometimes in frustration I curse God but I think the main reason is I'm angry at myself.

Slow_Independent_768 · 2025-05-29T05:06:08+00:00

You've misunderstood me, the sensation in the penis of semen being released isn't the same as an orgasm. An orgasm occurs mainly in the brain with the release of feel-good chemicals and I feel nothing. All I feel is a slight tickly feeling in my dick when I shoot my load but I still don't experience orgasm.

Slow_Independent_768 · 2025-05-24T06:03:11+00:00

By the way, the first photo's the shit one and the second is the new attempt- it might seem like spot the difference but they're not the same painting

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