Are You Asexual Or On Antidepressants?

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[–]alladd 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Most "asexual" people have sex and date. A small percentage have medical issues or trauma; most are just lying for attention.

They just portray themselves as special because they perceive their libido as being lower than others, or they split hairs trying to separate sex from attraction from romantic love, etc. insisting they only feel a portion like they're sexually colorblind or something.

(Which begs the question - if you don't feel it, how do you know what you're not feeling?)

In reality it's probably just that a lot of people identifying as this are young, and relatively inexperienced, and are basing their identity off of a single feeling or interaction, possibly not even IRL. They got a crush on an anime character and now think they're "demiromantic", or they watched too much porn and now they think they're ace because they think normies all fuck within minutes of meeting each other.

Almost every "ace" person says they'll have sex and even feel love under the right conditions, so it follows that they're just still figuring out who and what they're attracted to.

[–]Q-Continuum-kin 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Also some percentage of those people are trying to identify into a sexuality minority like claiming they are lesbians but then having no attraction to women and then anonymously confessing on Reddit about being upset that as a lesbian they only get turned on by men etc...

[–]xoenix 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Sounds like a worse conspiracy than the mRNA jab.

[–]LtGreenCo 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Sexual side-effects have been on SSRI warning labels for decades. They should've done their research. Those big pamphlets you get in your script bag aren't there for no reason. Also SSRIs are for people with chemical brain imbalances whose anxiety/depression are so bad they cannot function. They generally are willing to accept side-effects if it means they can actually live life.

But something tells me these people had, at worst, a boohoo case of the Mondays so they went shopping for a doctor thinking they could take a magical happy pill to turn their frowns upside-down. I'm guessing with little resistance, because SSRIs are over-prescribed just like everything else these days. Oh well next time read the fucking labels and do a little research.

[–]mintpepsi175 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

There's a huge difference between SSRI's having sexual side effects while on them and those side effects persisting after stopping the drugs. Also a lot of SSRI's just make it hard to orgasm but that goes away when you stop taking them. PSSD is different and way worse. Also there's no such thing as a chemical imbalance in the brain, thats just a lie pushed by big pharma. Maybe we shouldnt be castrating people in the name of big pharmas financial gain? Seems uh, kinda degenerate.

Side note, psychiatrists will prescribe drugs unprompted after like one 20 minute meeting with you, and it doesn't even matter how temporary your problem is, or whether it can be addressed in healthier ways, they will want to put you on drugs.

[–]LtGreenCo 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Chemical imbalance, lie or not, just means low availability of serotonin/neurotransmitters. And the function of SSRIs is to correct that by making more serotonin available to the brain. In many cases it works and turns once dysfunctional people into functional people. And in many other cases it can do the opposite. PSSD is the least of it really. The list of things that can go wrong is lone and insane and it's all documented.

Taking SSRIs is a huge risk that should only be reserved for cases where therapy and other treatment options have failed. And that's my point. It's up to you, the individual, to thoroughly research any medication you are going to be ingesting so you can fully understand the risks and make an informed decision. Doctors are supposed to explain that shit to you but odds are they won't. At the end of the day, your health is your responsibility, nobody else's.

[–]mintpepsi175 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You're not making a point, you just think you are. PSSD is the worst SSRI side effect, because it's permanent, even after the cessation of the drug. You even admit there should be informed consent for a drug that CAN LITEARLLY PERMANENTLY SEXUALLY AND EMOTIONALLY CASTRATE YOU, and yet there's not. Even if you were to "do your own research," there's a good chance you wouldn't find out about PSSD. It's not like it's listed as the number one potential side effect. Big pharma obviously has a vested interest in not acknowledging it. Are you a libertarian or ancap by chance?

[–]LtGreenCo 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I've made plenty of points you've perhaps just missed them. Anyway, "worst side-effect" is subjective. It depends on how important you think sex is. To some people it's just a recreational activity but to others it's the end-all be-all to a fulfilling life. If you're in the latter camp and you have PSSD then sucks to be you.

IMO the worst side-effect is suicide and that's been on the warning labels since forever. Like I said, understand the risks. SSRIs aren't something to fuck around with.

[–]UncleWillard56 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

There are people with legitimate mental illness who need medication just to function. Then there are the attention-seekers who want built-in excuses for sitting on the sidelines of their own lives. It's another form of victim status that gets you out of having to be responsible for yourself and it's only getting worse. What is it >50% of younger generations are on some sort of medication? How is that good for you?