Posted by linkadge on September 28, 2003, at 18:10:12
In reply to Re: preaching about meds » Simcha, posted by emilyd on September 28, 2003, at 9:51:57
There was a recent study done, that I read somewhere. It was quite extensive, questioning thousands of people.
Those who scored the lowest on ratings of depression, anxiety, and insomnia, also scored the lowest on scales of sexual drive. Meaning those who weren't depressed didn't care all that much about sex anyway.
One doctor joked that its almost as if they already had prozac in their brains.
I have found this true as well. Acording to my mother, my father always had a low sex drive, he was also one of the happiest men alive.
The times when I was nondepressed in my life, I thought about sex very rarely. Perhaps 2-3 times a week at most. As my mood began to sink, and my anxiety rose, I became more obsessive about sex and sexual thoughts. From that point, obsessions and depression went through the roof.
I honestly think that when you are non depressed that you really don't need sex very often at all. I think that when you remit from depression you become more interested in higher order cognative thoughts, and less in sexual ones.
When I started taking SSRIs. I was actually glad about the sex drive reduction. Finally I could go about my daily activities without assigning a sexual connotation to everything.
Thats just my view.
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