When the Meds Take a Toll: PSSD Stories

Inside this volume

Fifty first-person accounts describe post-SSRI sexual dysfunction. Writers describe the prescription — for depression, anxiety, OCD, premature ejaculation, sometimes at fifteen years old — and the counselling they did or did not receive about sexual side effects. There is the noticing: the genital numbness, the absent orgasm, the loss of libido and of emotional response, and the confusion of not knowing whether this is the illness, the drug, or the person. Writers describe living beside it after stopping the medication: the relationships strained and ended, the doctors who did not believe the syndrome exists, the years of being told it must be psychological. There are the windows and partial returns that give hope and take it away, the people alongside, and the clinicians who took it seriously. The volume does not overstate treatment, and closes with what has not lifted.

Who it's for

For anyone experiencing persistent sexual side effects after stopping an antidepressant, their partners, and prescribers who want to hear these accounts directly.

Format · Instant download · PDF & EPUB · Fifty first-person accounts · PDF: 283 pages

A collection of personal testimony, offered as companion reading — not medical advice.

• 50 single-author testimonies from real people
• A short, plain-language introduction to the topic
• Editor's note, contents page, and curated resource list
• Professional interior typesetting and an original cover

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