Posted by grapebubblegum on June 11, 2001, at 8:17:17
In reply to Re: wb » Snowie, posted by Dr. Bob on June 10, 2001, at 23:59:46
Wow, what an information and insight-packed thread.
It will take A LOT to ever get me on SSRI's again. My fiance flew down here for the weekend, and Gil, it does not matter that we are different genders.. I'm betting you can guess what I'm trying to say here. Your "might as well be playing checkers" analogy was so true. In the recent past while on Zoloft and then Paxil, I was just sadly doing the checkers routine by myself and doing the "it's ok, sweetie, it just isn't gonna happen" routine with my fiance, but now that I'm off Paxil for good, I'll spare all of you the salacious details but let's just say my sexual responsiveness is back to being way through the roof, which is the way it should be, goshdarnit, for anyone who chooses to be sexually active. (I can safely say the fiance, being a caring man, is happy to see me out of just-playing-checkers mode and delighted to see me umm... enjoying his company -to put it mildly - in that specific way again.)
As for the stereotype about men declining and women ascending some mythical sexual peak in their forties... Don't worry about that, Gil; I happen to think it's a load. IMHO people are sexually responsive from puberty through whatever age ill health makes them less able than they were. Who wants to take meds that will make you basically sexually crippled?
If it sounds like I am down on SSRIs, I admit that I am. I'm sorry to anyone who finds them helpful. They helped me at times... I guess my stance now is that I would consider them to be a good choice for relatively short-term treatment (as someone mentioned, they can be a lifesaver for someone so depressed they wouldn't have much of a sex life anyway) but I just can't praise them as the long-term panacea that they are being touted as. Just my opinion based on my experience, though.
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