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'Antidepressants ruined my sex life': The debilitating reality of PSSD
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Simon Wright was prescribed citalopram, an antidepressant, in 2012 for a bout of intense anxiety that enveloped him after he finished university (he now attributes that to nicotine withdrawal from quitting smoking). For the next decade, he was on and off the pills switching between different doses and varieties.
Mr Wright is part of the immense and growing number of people who have taken antidepressants: one in seven people in England are estimated to take them, according to NHS figures. But unbeknown to him, he had also joined a smaller, relatively unknown cohort: those suffering with PSSD (post-SSRI sexual dysfunction).
Thousands of users claim that selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), commonly prescribed antidepressants, have left them with devastating, long-lasting side effects. Sufferers describe symptoms as “hell on earth”, robbing them of “everything that makes us human not robots”.
Mr Wright is part of the immense and growing number of people who have taken antidepressants: one in seven people in England are estimated to take them, according to NHS figures. But unbeknown to him, he had also joined a smaller, relatively unknown cohort: those suffering with PSSD (post-SSRI sexual dysfunction).
Thousands of users claim that selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), commonly prescribed antidepressants, have left them with devastating, long-lasting side effects. Sufferers describe symptoms as “hell on earth”, robbing them of “everything that makes us human not robots”.
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