Posted by ShelliR on February 23, 2001, at 19:25:31
In reply to 23, never had sex or relationship, sad about it, posted by PhoenixGirl on February 23, 2001, at 18:12:05
Phoenix Girl. I sorry that you have suffered from depression for so long. But you are still quite young and have lots of time left in your life for relationships. When I remember back to that age, it was hard to visualize that I would not always feel the way I was feeling and that good things would happen a bit later in life to me (when I got on an antidepressant which helped me enormously).
I wouldn't worry so much about not having sexual feeling right now; since your social phobia has subsided some, I would focus my attention there. If you develop a relationship, then you can work on changing to a medication that doesn't take away your sexual drive. But first you have to develop a relationship.
You are still struggling with depression. I would focus both on therapy, as well as continuing the search for medications which may not be the traditional ADs to help with the depression. Have you tried MAOIs with augmentation? How about tricyclics? Do you feel you have a good pdoc that is committed to finding the right combintion to help your depression? I hope so.
p.s. I think it was very brave to talk about this.
shelli
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