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i am a 35 yr old man from UK. I suffered sexual issues from taking a tCM herbal

formula once for a month 4 years ago. It is called jei wei xiao yao wan. I still

have the depression i was trying to treat and now have sexual issues.

My main issue is i feel sad and I awake early all days. This happened after

trauma and then i never recovered and got in to negative cycle.

I just awoke now at 4 am having gone to bed at around 11 - 11:30, toom me an

hour to sleep. I was sad when i went to bed. I awoke with a thumping heart and

sad.

I thinks its depression, i smoked cannabis for a year between 19 and 20. maybe

its that. I know my mum was depressed most of her life, she used to beat me and

take her depression / frustration out on me and that made me depressed when a

child. I now realise she did it cos she could not cope and was frustrated

depressed and i was a difficult child. The depression really only started

hitting me around 23. By then i had done some steroids, used prenisone and

suffered stress. It started with me thinking of past upsets and regrest and it

stressed me and i kept in that thinking. Since then its come on and off

percipitated by over thinking / stress and after the latest stressor never

really got out of thinking about past, negative thining, yjay was 8 years ago, i

am 35 now.

O have sexual issues since taking a depression formula in TCM called jei wei

xiao yaoo wan. and xiao yao wan. This caused impotence and zero libido, i am

still suffering 4 years later. Little improvement really despite trying a lot of

herbal remedies.

I regret so many things i have done in my life. I dont know if this thinking is

due to low adenals causing low neuro transmitters or due to drug abuse

(cannabis) causing depression or its just endogenous depression.

I am afraid of antidepressants cos of sexual issues which i already have will go

worse, i may develop permanent issues, if that happens i may just as well die.

So i dont know how to handle this.

What can i take to cope? I am thinking 5 hhtp, i am also thinking cortef or

isocoert has depression can be caused by low cortisol and i have testes using

adrenal stress index and my cortisol is low.