How long is your refractory perioid after pssd?

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Re: How long is your refractory perioid after pssd?

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Varies a lot for me, sometimes 5 min, sometimes overnight if I do it at night and having a bad period with not much morning wood (12h I guess) but more like 1-4 hours if I am not thinking about or planning sex. If I really try, I can do it a few times a day but not like I was pre "depression" or drugs.

I am currently on a 8-ish day bad/good wave cycle. Used to be more erratic and several weeks typically during a wave cycle. I am bit over 3 months off my AD and nearly 8 months off the the AP that triggered the whole WD mess, overall 2.5 years into protracted WD.
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Re: How long is your refractory perioid after pssd?

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lukejimmy wrote: Wed Apr 12, 2023 7:29 am
arahant wrote: Sun Nov 22, 2020 11:37 am
PIEDOderPSSD wrote: Sun Nov 22, 2020 10:01 am I can have as much orgasms as I want, but no sex drive and ed, could this still be pssd?
Anorgasmia is one of the marked symptoms of PSSD, it's nearly impossible to cum, so that SSRIs are prescribed off label for people with premature ejaculation.

I guess no sex drive and difficulty to sustain erections after a marathon of faping/porn is way expected.
Even before taking any meds, I noticed that the body needs some rest, and some abstinence helps recover from sexual exhaustion.
So are you saying you would have pleasureless orgasms when you were experiencing sexual exhaustion ( before PSSD)?
That's pretty normal, even for healthy people. Too many orgasms in short succession reduces orgasm and ejaculation substantially after a certain threshold. This threshold varies a lot from person person and health, baseline libido, and age etc... Back before any of my dramas, I got to that exhaustion and tired sexual response after some 10-15 times in a day in my teens and then again in my mid 20s (long story, but I had catastrophic pituitary issues from 19-22 that resulted in total sexuality loss, then it suddenly resolved completely) Some of my experiences after sexual exhaustion, especially one night stand sort of thing, becasue I was very nervous and shy introverted person, this anxiety would give me sometimes inability to reach climax, then when going non stop for like 1h+, one case I went 3h non stop before orgasm. At that point, your genitals are very numb to tactile sensation, much like PSSD or AD side effects induce. But of course, those things are only temp, like your arm when you sleep on it too long and goes numb for a few min.

This can and often is exacerbated massively when having mental health issues or stress when no drugs have ever been involved. Loss of sexual function is the biggest complaint with depression prior to starting meds, at least in men. This happened to me, I got severe work burnout and a nervous breakdown, and I was not able to have ejaculation( 1 or 2 drops of solid white clumps only, no liquid) , very weak erections and orgasms were very muted and pain in my penis after the muted orgasm. Far worse than any drug side effect or PSSD that I have now.

At the time I didn't know mental health could do this, but I know very well now, and much of my improvement besides my CNS remolding itself slowly after having a hell of a time getting off these poisons, has come from counseling to sort out my PTSD from the whole psych drugs experience in general and existing issues and traumas from the past, especially sexual/intimacy trauma from past flings and bad relationships which leads to the mentioned difficulties above that were pre drug days. I never had any issues when solo back then in regards to SD, only when with a partner.
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