The similarities between AIDS and PSSD/PFS/PRSD are striking. Both involve: Sex Anonymity – everyone’s initial instinct was not to reveal they had the problem. The AIDS community faced up to this with the creation of ACT UP. For PSSD things changed dramatically when the PSSD Network put names and faces to the condition. A People’s Movement. When it was … [Read more...] about Triple Therapy for Enduring Sexual Dsyfunction
Antidepressants
Adverse Events Need A Human Touch
One of the most dramatic moments in the annals of adverse events was when in 2008 Audrey Bahrick, a psychologist linked to the U of Iowa, contacted her senator, Senator Chuck Grassley, telling him about Post SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD) and asking him to alert FDA to the problem in the hope that something could be done to ensure not too many people were affected. He did as … [Read more...] about Adverse Events Need A Human Touch
Love Actually and Looping Disorders
None of the psychotropic drugs – SSRIs, antipsychotics - we now have or their clinical effects good or bad have been discovered in/with cohort studies, animal models, brain scans or randomized controlled trials (RCTs). They have been discovered by looking at and listening to people. At the recent Enduring Sexual Dysfunction Congress and for several … [Read more...] about Love Actually and Looping Disorders
Love Making Actually – the science of
Last week’s Enduring Sexual Dysfunctions post opens doors to new ways of thinking about these and other medical conditions but also to big questions such as Why We Fall in Love . Robb Dixon, who was also at the meeting interviewed Will Powers, the guy who at the Congress, in last millennium language, shifted the enduring sexual dysfunction paradigm. In the Robb and Will … [Read more...] about Love Making Actually – the science of
Enduring Sexual Dysfunction World Congress
Over a few days in late April 2026, Ken Peters, a Professor of Urology in Detroit, chaired a meeting he had organized that pulled together some of the folk most engaged with a set of enduring medicine induced sexual dysfunctions – Post SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD), Post Finasteride Syndrome (PFS) and Post Accutane Syndrome (PAS). (Accutane is isotretinoin). Ken figured it … [Read more...] about Enduring Sexual Dysfunction World Congress
Gambling on SSRIs
Is Consent to an SSRI Possible The idea that we had a right to know what our treatment options are and should be able to consent to the option that looks right for us – even if that conflicts with the views of the doctor we are seeing - arose in the 1950s linked to breast cancer treatment, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and treatment trials (research). The original drug … [Read more...] about Gambling on SSRIs
Good Trips on SSRIs
No Sex - We're on Antidepressants mentions that this series of videos began with a recent gift from Britain's Medicines Regulator - MHRA - and that RxISK is expecting another gift in April. Turns out we are being spoilt for gifts. On March 18, MHRA issued a fabulous new document about transparency. A colleague did something that would have been impossible a year ago - he … [Read more...] about Good Trips on SSRIs
No Sex – We’re on Antidepressants
No Sex Please! (We’re on antidepressants). Based on 17th Century Kama Sutra and Ragamala paintings. © 2014 created by Billiam James. Post SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD) was the first born sexual dysfunction - before its Finasteride and Isotretinoin siblings - Finasteride and Consent - Isotretinoin and Consent. This video and post give you the background to PSSD which opens … [Read more...] about No Sex – We’re on Antidepressants
Bad Trips on SSRIs
Britain's Medicines Regulator (MHRA), taking a very similar line to FDA in the United States, EMA in Europe, Health Canada and the TGA in Australia, has recently been trying to extricate itself from a corner into which lawyers crafting pharmaceutical industry strategies have painted all regulators. Pharmaceutical companies write drug labels and are legally obliged to update … [Read more...] about Bad Trips on SSRIs
Isotretinoin and Safety – Destiny or Mirage?
On January 22, Britain's Medicines Regulator convened a meeting on consent to Isotretinoin (Accutane, Claravis), whose dynamics map straight onto Prima Facie. Families whose children died from Isotretinoin triggered suicide, or whose sexual function is potentially wiped our forever have clamored for reform for over a decade. In 2023, MHRA rewrote the Rules of Evidence on … [Read more...] about Isotretinoin and Safety – Destiny or Mirage?