Prozac Nation Blues
Sep. 17th, 2002 07:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hiddenmuse{Okay, so I'm on Effexor ... but people are more familiar with Prozac}
The one thing that is supposed to help me feel better, keep me on a relatively even keel has my libido in a huge slump.
Maybe it's the fact that it could take me at least half an hour to reach orgasm ... lying in bed feeling pure frustration, falling asleep halfway through ... that could do it.
It's a sucky trade off. Being off the antidepressants, I'm so miserable and despondent that I hate being around myself. Being on them, the part of the drug that affects Serotonin levels fucks with my sexual functioning - completely taking away much of the enjoyment of sex. Albeit, solo sex. I don't even want to think of what could happen when I get a partner involved again. :-/
The one thing that is supposed to help me feel better, keep me on a relatively even keel has my libido in a huge slump.
Maybe it's the fact that it could take me at least half an hour to reach orgasm ... lying in bed feeling pure frustration, falling asleep halfway through ... that could do it.
It's a sucky trade off. Being off the antidepressants, I'm so miserable and despondent that I hate being around myself. Being on them, the part of the drug that affects Serotonin levels fucks with my sexual functioning - completely taking away much of the enjoyment of sex. Albeit, solo sex. I don't even want to think of what could happen when I get a partner involved again. :-/
