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 up a bigger picture that takes in Finasteride and Isotretinoin.

Britain’s MHRA are working on Antidepressants at the moment and  apparently we will see White Smoke coming from some Chimney soon on both SSRI and Finasteride related issues.  FDA are working on these meds and issues also.

In terms of PSSD, RxISK somehow managed to get the European Medicine’s Agency to asknowledge the Risk of PSSD in 2019 – EMA Acknowledges Persistent Sexual Dysfunction After SSRIs and SNRIs.  Health Canada followed Suit – Health Canada Warns About PSSD – as have other countries in very minimal ways.

The petition that led to an EMA mention of PSSD was sent to FDA at the same and to date nearly 8 years later nothing has happened – even with the threat of a lawsuit – FDA Sued for Failing to Act. This is up there with the Catholic Church’s defense of child-abusing priests.  But then pharmaceutical companies spend a lot of time lobbying Healthcare Cardinals and who knows what else – Partnerships in Healthcare.

Trying to get ahead of MHRA and produce something quickly that might ‘inform’ would-be SSRI takers about PSSD led to this video – in the hope that Companies, Profesional Medical Associations and Regulators would stop and think before prematurely declaring ‘The War is Won – PSSD and SSRIs are sorted forever’ – we will not be back here next year.

You Tube Short Videos

1. PGAD https://youtube.com/shorts/q1qwRVLhvy8?feature=share
2. PSSD https://youtube.com/shorts/jLV2XpZj8W8?feature=share
3. PSSD Toxicity https://youtube.com/shorts/VXFGGY1rli8?feature=share
4. Asexual https://youtube.com/shorts/fDo5EpOIX_8?feature=share
5. RxISK Prize https://youtube.com/shorts/hZFxYOsnLH4?feature=share

Instagram Clips

1. PGAD https://www.instagram.com/p/DV7_ykbjLUj/
2. PSSD https://www.instagram.com/p/DV8AmqWjL9i/
3. PSSD is a Toxic Effect https://www.instagram.com/p/DV8A0_0DNKk/
4. Asexual https://www.instagram.com/p/DV8B2uMjJeo/
5. RxISK Prize https://www.instagram.com/p/DV8CESvjHIC/

Tik Tok

Notes on a Scandal

SSRIs do a host of other extraordinary things to our love lives besides PSSD.  Too many to fit them all into one brief PSSD video.

Notes on a Scandal was a compelling 2006 movie and book with (given Ocars weekend) 4 Academy Award nominations including Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress. What is little known is that the book’s author Zoe Heller was an early Prozac taker and defender of its benefits.

When SSRI Stories was alive and well it hosted an ever increasing amount of reports of female schoolteachers charged with seducing teenage male pupils – the plot of Notes on a Scandal. The teachers were often acquitted.  Courts have taken a very black or white approach to this – zero sympathy or clear recognitions of drug effects.

There seems little doubt that this happens more than we thought. There is little doubt that it was being reported more than ever before in the early SSRI era before the media stopped reporting on felonies linked to SSRI use. This doesn’t mean the SSRIs caused it in all cases but they certainy can contribute in some.

What’s going on?  Do the teachers have PGAD – see the video to find out more about this.  Or is this an SSRI induced disinhibition?  Or is the transgression an attempt to feel something – see Pfizer?

Pfizer and Eroticism

Way back in the late 1990s, pre-internet, a 13 year old boy Matt Miller was put on Zoloft and a week later he commited suicide – by hanging himself in a bathroom between his parents bedroom and his bedroom. Pfizer wheeled out an expert to say this was likely Auto-Erotic Asphyxiation gone wrong.

In the resulting legal case, the judge found this argument ludicrous. Back then drug company employees were often recruited to healthy volunteer trials of their drug to gauge its effects. I was left wondering who in Pfizer might have discovered Auto-Erotic Asphyxiation on Zoloft – See Addicted to Sex.  There may be a link.  SSRIs mute genitals and emotions – so much that takers have often gone to extremes in order to feel something – including watching ISIS beheadings live when these things were happening.

Orienteering

People who don’t blink an eye at the idea of respectable female school-teachers ‘educating’ young boys, think it completely impossible that we might change orientation on SSRIs – that homosexuals might become heterosexuals.  This, however, is precisely what Peter Kramer claimed in Listening to Prozac.

Imipramine launched in 1958 and it’s discoverer, Roland Kuhn, gave a lecture about it at the American Psychiatric Association meeting that year.  In the published version of the talk he mentions that he’s seen homosexuals convert to heterosexuality.  Imipramine acts on serotonin among other things.

We began to understand some of the possibilities behind these claims when the SSRIs came along and they were fingered as giving rise to impulse control disorders in some people – like the dopamine agonists for restless legs and Parkinsons – producing potentially groslly altered behavior.

Whether this includes a fundamental change in orientation is another matter.  If you have a Good Trip on an SSRI, you may feel Better than Well and, feeling invincible, you might opt to make life-changing moves.  The most likely one today among young people is to decide to change gender.  Gender dysphoria or gender identity disorder doesn’t suddenly develop – having a bright let’s-change-gender idea comes closer to impulsive acting.

Bill James

The art work in the video and below is by Bill James.

Frozen Venus

Frozen Venus © created by Billiam James 2021 is adapted from Sandro Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus” and “The Outcast”.

Lost in Medication

Lost in Medication. Based on Adam and Eve painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder in 1526. © Billiam James 2014

Illustration: Is There Life After Meds?, © 2014 created by Billiam James

Along with No Sex, We’re on Antidepressants featured above.