Love, Sex and Dating Articles -> Anxiety, Depression and Sexuality

People of all ages usually take medicine in order to keep their illnesses at bay. Some such medicine could play upon their sexuality, whether as boosters or blockers, bound however to individual traits. 

Alas, anxiety plays major role in sexual life, for men and women both, to the extent of disrupting penetration or climax in women yet promoting ejaculatory and erectile dysfunction in men. 

Psychologists seeking to minimize their patients’ anxiety streaks would frequently employ relaxation techniques, being successfully in certain cases but less so in others.

A batch of drugs namely anxiolytics or tranquilizers might be employed safely in cases of extreme anxiety or those in which behavioral devices seemingly of no avail. In terms medical, there’d come as major or minor tranquilizers but would take further explanation otherwise.

Broadly, the more utilized anxiolytics are those derived from benzodiazepines that usually bring out anxiety relief right from start. It goes without saying that doses should being individualized and adjusted in accordance with personal requirements as well as medication grade.

Once drugs of central action yet chemical dependency likelihood there’d render short-term usage essential in getting it to work effectively.

Given its anxiety suppressant action and muscular relaxing inducement, benzodiazepines in small amounts may prove highly beneficial sexuality wise; enhance libido and overall sexual performance. In large amounts could induce sleepiness and backfire, in other words, rebound on libido and performance altogether. Long-term usage tends to suppress the recipient’s sexual drive.

Depression is one of the malaises from the last century, so much so the pharmaceutical industry has plowed in research of new drugs whose could bring about relief to millions of people with literally no collateral effects. It’s reckoned that depression stands for likely cause of sexuality suppression. Jumping on the bandwagon, there would make sense to state that the use of antidepressants might pose likeable action towards libido, therein boosted up sexual response and performance altogether, isn’t it?

Nope. In practical terms is reasoned that certain antidepressants bear sexuality inhibitor capabilities, pertaining mostly to libido that is bound to decrease or cease altogether.  Alterations such as delayed ejaculation are bound to strike upon action of certain antidepressants, in which point employed as a tamper for premature ejaculation.

New antidepressants, unlikely to interfere in sexual response and effective treatment wise without, however, being detrimental to our sexuality, are already out in the market.

Chiefly personal tendencies and traits would be held accountable at medical assessment.

So much is said about anxiety and depression, but the point is that diseases as well as sexuality prone treatments exist so that sexual performance can be either boosted up or left unaltered if anything.

By Darci L. D. Janarelli
Gynaecologist

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