Fwd: please help...6 yrs on ssris, two months off 0sex drive

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Subject: please help...6 yrs on ssris, two months off 0sex driveTo: ssri.side.effects@...i've been a member of this group for several months now...never

submitted anything but i read the posts oftten. im a 19 year old guythat has been destroyed by these evil EVIL drugs. NO dr will believeme when i tell them the sex drive is gone...no sensation, erection,libido or brain connection since i was 12, and started all this shit.

im so glad that im not alone in this, im so scared and im not theonly one to go thru this. it's funny because these meds dont help butCREATE an illness. i have never felt the same emotionally orsexually. i have no idea of my sexual orientation because its simply

not there. nothing seems to help and ever dr i go to says this willgo away after the drugs are stopped, but the bastards are all liars,THEY need to take this mind altering crap for 6 years, go thru thehell of withdrawl and be left changed forever with no emotion,

feeling, empathy for the world around them and become completelypermenatly impotent. i know this is nothing new to you but i wouldrather be dead than be like this. whats life if you can't feel, beconnected, be sensual, been connected, feel like youre a part of

someone? i've tried different supplements w/ little success and worseeffects like aggitation and increased anxiety states that have leftme crawling in my skin, i feel like its hopeless but i know im notalone, but it's so damn scary because it seems like no one believes

or knows what to do about it. is this permenant? can it be reversedso i don't have to take supplements for feelings i should be feelinganyway? i'm desperatly in search of ansewers and no one has them. iveread about gene expression and know alot about the effects of the

drugs on dopamine, seritonin and norepiniphrine along with thevarious other imbalances these even meds cause. are they permentant,for example down regulation? are there specific supplements ortreatments that will REVERSE the damange and make me feel like me

again? please respond, even if it's just a couple of lines....im soscared...no one knows whats going on. i swears to god, we are ALLguinia pigs that the drug companies are making billions off of. theydont give a shit that people's lives and minds are ruined,

relationships and families are destroyed as long as they're swimmingin their money. is there hope? not just for the sex drive andsensation, but for the lack of empathy, emotion, and passion? i amvery sensative to meds and may have an underlying bipolar

disorder...welbutrin and numerous other meds used to help with thishave made me aggressive, frantic and suicidal. (won't even go intothe akathisia...took the drs years to finally start listening to meon that one) i just need a sliver of hope to hold onto thru all of

this. there has to be hope. i mean, masterbation is like brushing myteeth, a chore,i want so bad to be with someone, to feel love, toturn heads, to be sensual and passionate. i've been on meds sincei've been 13, and now 19 wonder if i'll ever experience sensuality

and that 'connection' with people and the world around me. all thisreally puts life in perspective. id give EVERYTHING i have just tofeel again.anyways, if you've made it this far thanks for listening. i really,

really need help but i don't know where to begin and the drs don'tknow what the hell they are talking about. can you shed anylight onthis for me? im about to give up hope but i have to force myself toget out of bed every morning and go thru the agonizing motions of

another day. ssris are evil, lethal drugs and i believe that tenyears from now they won't even be perscribed. guess we're all guiniapigs, arn't we, in some way or another? i lost my aunt to suicide 7years ago to what is now being looked upon as 'severe paxil

withdrawl' not 'rebound anxiety,' and have been thru HELL getting offthe stuff but now NOTHING is the same. please respond if you have thechance, i need to talk with someone who doesent think im crazy. ineed that thread of hope to cling onto. i need to know this will get

better. my email is simpzunfreak69@...best of luck to you........we will get thru this, everyone who'slives has been touched by this shit.thank you.............kyle w