PSSD Forum

I take 600mg. It's lithium carbonate, so you have to drink a lot of water.

Thank you Bunny. What is your plan with lithium? You will quit it some day or stay on?

Right now I have no plans to go off of it, just because it keeps my mood stable and the few times I missed a dose I felt pretty awful.

Doesnt make you feel emotionally numb? Can you get piss off? Cry? Being happy?, Etc?

All my emotions are pre-PSSD state (can still get happy, cry, enjoy things, anger). Lithium just helps control the extreme negative emotions that sometimes want to come out.

hi bunny, during PSSD you had clitoral pleasure? and now?

I experienced almost no clitoral pleasure at all during PSSD, but after being cured I have it again.

(Also, I stopped paroxetine a month ago. I don't really experience much OCD anymore and I don't know how much it could have helped anyway. It never affected my sex drive, thankfully.)

Damn it. I not read the paroxetine take. So many factor. Have you been cured before paroxetine take?

I believe sexual recovery took effect in June of last year, then 10mg of paroxetine were introduced a month later (nothing changed as far as sexual side effects after it was introduced).

I am convinced the main problem of our syndrome is the silencing of genes. Read this about Lithium:

''Lithium acts by preventing the process of DNA methylation, which is critically important to improving mental health and preventing mental and emotional disorders.''

And also this: ''Decreased global methylation in patients with bipolar disorder who respond to lithium.''

And also this:'' Lithium Down-regulates Histone Deacetylase 1 (HDAC1)''

Meaning, this might be a good psych med against epigenetic silencing. Has any of you tried it longer term besides bunny, and if so, what is/was the experience.