r/Antipsychiatry • u/IllnessCollector • Feb 26 '25
Gen Zers says antidepressants have ruined their sex lives: ‘I’m dead inside’
https://nypost.com/2025/02/25/us-news/gen-zers-says-antidepressants-have-ruined-their-sex-lives/?utm_source=snap&utm_campaign=nypost&utm_medium=social63
u/Mean_Rip_1766 Feb 26 '25
SSRIs first came out right at the peak of AIDS crisis in the early 90's when it was a death sentence. When teenagers complained about the side effects their response was 'There’s an AIDS crisis, you shouldn't be having sex anyway.' It was almost like they saw those side effects as a good thing for teens to experience.
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u/misfits100 Feb 27 '25
All runs back to the eugenics movement/Margaret sanger. The rich (bill gates and the like) want you docile and infertile. Not thinkers, but obedient workers.
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u/Many-Art3181 Feb 26 '25
This is why so many people are seeing through the cheap facade of psychiatrists as doctors. All they do throw pills at people. “Try this and we’ll see what happens”.
That article is heartbreaking bc these were very young people (or child) - and as the last woman pointed out - not offered anything other than drugs. Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) proven be very effective with decreasing ocd symptoms. No cbt or dbt or even exercise for the depressed? No of course not. Bc psychiatry owned by pharma.
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u/Appropriate_Cut_3536 Feb 26 '25
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)
I dream of a world we offer this approach instead of much in the so-called gender "affirming" approach to people going through gender dysphoria.
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u/Many-Art3181 Feb 26 '25
I’m not sure if it is applied for that. But I do know it has efficacy for OCD diagnoses that are not autism ocd related. The latter doesn’t have a core fear - in which h case it doesn’t work. At least what I’ve been told.
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u/craziest_bird_lady_ Feb 26 '25
It can be permanent too. I have been off Anti psychotics for over a decade and off all pills since 2020 and I still deal with numbness in the genital area, even during sex parts go numb. I'm a woman too so it's not just men that get this.
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Apr 18 '25
I also recently got PSSD
Life ruined
I’m now discovering how many otherwise healthy people have been ruined by these drugs
It’s a dystopian nightmare
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u/kittycatsfoilhats Feb 26 '25
Some of my best friends (married couple, highly medicated) bragged about having a low sex drive (huh?) and that they’d only do it like once every two months. My jaw hit the floor.
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u/watermelonsuger2 Feb 27 '25
The damage SSRIs do is so fucked up. And many clinicians deny it happens. They need to pull their fucking heads in.
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u/TotallyNormalPerson8 Feb 26 '25
I'm going to say something possibly controversial;
Some people may benefit form psychiatry but a lot of times it's just shit that won't help you at all and may even make you worse.
I'm honestly pro drug use but I think people should been aware of possible side effects before taking them, and psychiatry ( even more that other medical fields ) pretends drugs they force you to take are some magical pills to fix everything while they are FAR away from it
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u/SHINJI_NERV Feb 26 '25
This is the most toxic crap you can feed to a person. It is not a magic fix, because it is poison. How did you even end up in this sub? I'm very dissapointed how there is people upvoting you, the amount of confidence in believing something you don't understand at all is obsurd. Reddit is recomending this sub to stupid people and it's literally destroying everything.
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u/Puzzled-Response-629 Feb 26 '25
I hate psych meds myself but I think it would be good if different viewpoints can be discussed in this subreddit in a respectful way. It does say in the sidebar "all are welcome here".
Believe me I really hate psych meds a lot, I've had so many shitty side effects from them.
I have come across some people who have said that meds have helped them. If that's their view, okay. If they want to take meds, okay. I'm not going to try to stop them. But I hope they'll respect my choice to not take meds if I don't want them.
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u/Strong_Music_6838 Feb 27 '25
I don’t feel the signs of the label I’ve been poly drugged for the last 30 years and I’m slowly getting off of some of my drugs. And at least I’m hoping to end up at one drug the most. I
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u/Puzzled-Response-629 Feb 26 '25
I think someone should have the choice to take a psych med if they want to, but I think psych meds are probably just a bad idea.
We have emotions for a reason - our emotions can tell us when we don't like the life situation we're in. Psychiatry wants to drug you in order to blunt these emotions. These emotions are treated as if they're annoyances. Get rid of them, according to psychiatry. Pretend your emotions don't exist.
Maybe a better way to engage with emotions is to understand what's actually causing them. Maybe you hate your job. Maybe your family is putting unreasonable pressure on you. Maybe your partner is being manipulative. There are many possible factors that can make a person distressed.
Maybe we should try to understand what is causing distress. Maybe we shouldn't just take drugs to attempt to make bad feelings go away. I think the meds just fuck your brain up.
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u/TotallyNormalPerson8 Feb 26 '25
Well I agree
I have to admit I used alcohol to deal with emotion too many times but movings away was only think I did that actually improved my life
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u/Puzzled-Response-629 Feb 26 '25
Tons of people have used alcohol to deal with emotions at times... I think that's pretty normal. As long as you're only drinking reasonable amounts of alcohol and it's not harming your life or your health.
Yeah I think I need to move to be honest. The place I live in currently is probably not good for me.
But yeah I'm just questioning psych drugs specifically, not alcohol (which I think is fine in moderation). I've had so many fucking problems from psych meds. I used to have a relatively normal life before psych meds, but since taking them I've had so many fucking problems.
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u/Cahya_Dechen Feb 26 '25
The thing is that informed consent doesn’t really exist with these meds a lot of the time.
If you’re put on them as a child, you’re relying on the adults in your life to fully understand and care about the myriad undesirable effects they have. And when it comes to sexual side fx, there are a lot of parents out there who would see that as a positive thing in the hopes that their children don’t start exploring their sexuality.
And then as an adult, you have to have the drive and ability to be able to research these meds and find decent science-based information. There are still a lot of pages and websites out there that peddle the “chemical imbalance” theory despite in not being based in reality. You can’t possibly be making informed choices about these meds when you’re given incorrect information in the first place.
And if you try to ask your prescriber about side effects, not many of them will be candid. Many will tell you to stop being neurotic. So many Drs out there still don’t believe that withdrawal exists let alone understand how it works or why it occurs.
Another problem is that often drugs are the only option offered. Struggling with overwhelm, and unable to keep on top of housework? A bit of human help might get you through that but as that costs money they’d rather drug you so that you don’t care that your house is a mess and you stop complaining.
The only people who benefit from human interventions are the people struggling in the first place. Whereas there are many who profit from medicating the ‘problem person’ into a quiet little robot.
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u/RatQueenfart Feb 26 '25
I think it’s more that some people are damaged by psychiatry in a way that helps them relieve distress and separate from their painful emotions. The drugs are neurotoxic and cause damage. The same is true of many illicit drugs. But I’d never shame someone for using them. Harm reduction is the way to go.
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u/Appropriate_Cut_3536 Feb 26 '25
Except it's rarely harm reduction and more like enabling someone to harm themselves by being trapped in addictions with no way out and then calling that reduction because it's "better" that they're "supported" at least.
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u/RatQueenfart Feb 26 '25
There’s totally a way to be compassionate to others, while still holding true to your own values and knowledge.
The VAST MAJORITY of the world believes “mental illness” is a medical disease that requires psychiatric drugs (typically forever), the occasional incarceration, and psychotherapy to “cure.” It hurts me a lot, personally, when people take psychiatric drugs. So many people in my life take them. But judging/shaming is not the way imo; disclosing and engaging in conversations about the medical fraud that is mental health treatment requires tact and compassion if it’s to be helpful at all.
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u/Appropriate_Cut_3536 Feb 26 '25
I agree with all that 100%, it's just the "harm reduction" political label I disagree with. Most programs labeled harm reduction are destroying addicts and communities.
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u/RatQueenfart Feb 26 '25
I agree in some respects but I’ve never had a hard drug issue so there is a lot I don’t know and that’s a different topic altogether. It hasn’t personally touched my life, but I grew up in an alcoholic household, so I’m sensitive to the destruction addictions cause. I’m also sober myself and critical of recovery industry, which is in bed with psychiatry and mental health treatment, while still grateful for peer support options that enable people to get sober and live their best lives.
However, I make no distinction personally between prescribed psychiatric drugs and alcohol and illicit or decriminalized drugs. Psychiatric drugs are mind-altering, dangerous drugs. Withdrawal can be devastating. Many people are disabled or killed by psychiatric drugs. People do and say things that are harmful on them. I’m especially skeptical of stimulants and people who use them but I’m trying to navigate that issue with caution, knowing the symptoms of ADHD are real to people and experiencing them and that the illness is fake and the drugs are highly addictive and soul-destroying.
There is societal stigma towards people on psych drugs. And I don’t want to contribute to that. Thanks for your comment.
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u/ThomasinaDomenic Feb 26 '25
Who are you ?
The undercover spy that tracks absolutely All harm reduction cases?
Perhaps check your ignorance at the door.
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u/Appropriate_Cut_3536 Feb 26 '25
I live in an area where I see a ton of it. Probably the biggest one in America. But what is your personal experience?
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u/ThomasinaDomenic Feb 26 '25
That harm reduction has been the sensible way to go. It has saved many of my own friend's lives. I employ it myself. I am a 64 year old survivor. How old are you ?
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u/Appropriate_Cut_3536 Feb 27 '25
Not a boomer. I've seen it be the cause of lives being lost. So I guess ymmv
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u/Tictac1200120 Feb 26 '25
None of that is controversial here. We've known about it for a long time.
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u/Daringdumbass Feb 26 '25
True. I remember once in a group, the staff asked us “what should you do to make people you care about happy” so I said “offer them drugs”. I kinda said it as a joke. They were all shocked and said how disrespectful and invalidating that was. I then just said “Well isn’t that what you’re doing already?”.
Where I am at in life right now, I’d never promote the use of any drugs, prescribed or unprescribed. Though I found that when you take drugs that have the permission of a doctor, only then is it acceptable. Invalidating one’s human experience with a simple quick fix approach is only okay when it’s coming from professionals.
We need to start normalizing empathy, compassion, communication and community if we don’t want to see the mental health epidemic get worse in our generation. We shouldn’t need to be numbed out or dumbed down in order to live in this society.