Have you heard of Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction?

Question

Post-SSRI sexual dysfunction is the SSRI-induced drastic and permanent loss of capacity for physical sexual sensation, without any substantial loss in mechanical sexual functioning. Post-SSRI sexual dysfunction can be abbreviated as PSSD. The symptoms of PSSD strongly contrast with those of depression-induced sexual dysfunction.

For anyone that doesn't know, SSRIs are selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. They include drugs such as fluoxetine (prozac), paroxetine (paxil), and sertraline (zoloft).

PSSD only afflicts a relatively small fraction of people that take SSRIs. In particular, it afflicts people that have innately low serotonin, because SSRIs damage and kill sexual neurons by chronic depletion of serotonin from said neurons. People with innately low serotonin have neurons that can not sustain that depletion. People with innately low serotonin largely include introverts and serious people.

So, have you heard of post-ssri sexual dysfunction before now? If so, how much have you known about it before now? Do you have PSSD, or know anyone that has PSSD?

Apparently answerer #4 is having visual hallucinations.

Answer 1

IM on paxil for almost 2 months now and im 21 yrs old and have lost my taste for sex completely i know its from the paxil.

Answer 2

I have been taking paxil for some time now.
I don't know if that is my problem or my age. I
don't think my age has any thing to do with it
at the present. The reason for paxil is I have
a never ending shingles pain and the paxil seems to quell the tension created by the pain.

Answer 3

I had not heard of pssd before i got it myself. It only took three doses of an ssri before I lost complete feeling in my genitals. I went off them immediately and did not regain feeling at all.

Answer 4

I have been on different SSRIs for 8 years and gradually I am in a point that I dislike sex

Answer 5

This is not really a question