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I'm 26 years old, Italian female. i help me with google translate .

I took abilify (10 ml) from March 2013 and citalopram ( only 8 drops ) from April 2013.

I began to see the sexual side effects starting citalopram .

first drug I masturbate every day and I had many orgasms.

with medication, suddenly I have never masturbated , with no sexual stimulation .

I found my first boyfriend this year, and I climbed the drugs because I wanted to live my life one of my greatest and deepest desires : to live sexuality so intense and full with passion and involvement .

in February 2014 I was only 4 drops of citalopram.

I suspended citalopram 3 MONTHS AGO , abilify 2 months ago.

and my sexuality has not come back.

NO LONGER ABLE TO BE horny .

My body no longer responds to visual stimulation , porn videos , fantasies, stroking by the boy : (

after the suspension I've tried masturbating almost every day , and I saw that I can achieve orgasm after a very prolonged stimulation of the clitoris, but without excitement is not very pleasant , indeed sometimes it is forced and almost give up without reaching orgasm. once, I reached in a few minutes , but now I can put even 30 minutes or 1 hour! is horrible : ( the thing that hurts me the most is not being able to be arousal .

I am distressed for 2 months , I feel deprived of a most valuable part of myself. I have ALWAYS dreamed of one day living sexuality shared . sexuality that grew up with me, that has always made me want, daydream , explore my body and pleasure . and now that I have the opportunity to live with a guy , MY sexuality is no longer with me.
I feel mutilated , castrated . and I think about suicide every day, because I know that the PSSD can last for years or forever.

I'm sorry to even leave my testimony full of despair and pessimism, on this forum : (but this is .

perhaps a few decades , doctors and pharmaceutical companies open their eyes to this injustice and find a solution but in the meantime .... I and others are the victims PSSD with no solution.

someone tells me that " 3 months of the suspension are few , I can hope to heal ." but I have lost my sexuality for over a year ! and I do not read people who say they have recovered after a few months of the suspension .. but I read people who claim to NOT be recovered after many years ...

Tomorrow morning I begin to take bupropion, one of the few hopes I have left .
I would not want to die, I want to live , live my sexuality , passion , enjoy, love : (

ps. I had no withdrawal symptoms with abilify, or with citalopram.
only this horrible PSSD and I would not call it a withdrawal symptom

thanks for listening
 
yeah, i had a mild case of SSRI sexual dysfunction and its real - no libido and orgasm was impossible -, but it goes away

if i read it right you took SSRIs for one year and is off of them for 2 months, right? if that is right it is gonna take some time to heal that cuz taking SSRIs for a whole year is a lot. i know i took SSRIs for a few months and it took me around 3-4 months to get over sexual dysfunction

all you can do is wait it off, good luck and SSRIs suck
 
Post-SSRI sexual dysfunction sucks, no denying this. Antidepressant-related sexual dysfunction in women can be treated with Viagra -- it appears to work for women too! Talk to your doctor.

But there's also a habit effect. If you haven't had very much sex for a year, it's going to take work to get back to where you were before, even if you discontinued the drug that was the problem. You need to be patient with yourself -- sex is supposed to be fun, and if you're busy comparing yourself to where you were two years ago you're not going to have any fun.

After all, do you hear people complaining about "post-tobacco lung capacity" or "post-cocaine lack of money"? These are things that don't change unless you make them change. That is not to say that sexual desire cannot change or isn't likely to: it obviously changed at least once.
 
thanks,

I do not know if it's true that you are healed from PSSD after 3-4 months, or if you say because I said that I do not find evidence of recovery after a few months ...

I read many testimonies of non-recovery after many years, people who were powerless, anorgasmia, without being able to feel sexual arousal.

I am pessimistic, I can not believe that i can heal ... I think it is a brain damage.

I miss so much spontaneity and ease with which I could get excited and feel pleasure.

although I want to live, now I think about suicide for 2 months, because I can not accept living with a sexual mutilation.


abilify stopped from 2 months but it isnt ssri, citalopram it is
 
SSRIs seem to have pretty awful side-effects, this is really unfortunate to hear how they have affected you. I wish you good luck, I am sure you will be able to restore sexual function with enough rest and time!
 
It may take even longer for buproprion to affect you, but eventually you should start feeling some effects, even if they are not the desired ones.
 
It is not Brain Damage. SSRIs gradually change the way your brain works, and so even once they are all out of your body, your brain still will take some time (up to 6 months in my experience) to get back to "normal".

Also, has your depression returned? Perhaps you are not aroused because you are depressed now that you have stopped medication? Depression and anxiety will stop a female from feeling sexy, whether or not she has ever taken medication.
 
N0 W4RN1NG said:
It is not Brain Damage. SSRIs gradually change the way your brain works, and so even once they are all out of your body, your brain still will take some time (up to 6 months in my experience) to get back to "normal".

Also, has your depression returned? Perhaps you are not aroused because you are depressed now that you have stopped medication? Depression and anxiety will stop a female from feeling sexy, whether or not she has ever taken medication.
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strong sexual abnormalities that i still have from ssri, not dependent from anxiety or depression. also if I want to have excite and pleasure, but if I masturbate (or if I have sex), I'm not really able to get a bit aroused and sexual pleasure.

I am now almost 4 months after discontinuation of citalopram, I have not seen any improvement. for this I find it hard to believe that in another couple of months I will be "back to normal"
 
I think it could be related to semi-permanent alterations in serotonergic neurotransmission and/or dopaminergic changes. It would affect people more strongly whose underlying condition was not related to 5-HT and thus the SSRI treatment exacerbated things.

There is an interesting link between SSRIs and premature ejaculation, as there is even a short-acting SSRI approved for this.
My theory is that a part of depressed individuals do not have primary 5-HT problems, but related to dopamine and glutamate (and very possibly being emotionally over sensible, thus the depression not being the cause but more of a symptom). Treating these with SSRIs will cause some well-known side effects (initial stimulation, sometimes leading to suicidality or impulse control disorder, maybe even violence ... also exacerbating or inducing ADHD like symptoms for some. With chronic treatment becoming less and less effective, dulling the emotions and rising things like cognitive disturbances and sexual dysfunction). Also SSRI withdrawal syndrome might affect them much harder.
 
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