Dr. Witt Doerring... if you're reading this, thank you. The work you've done to spread awareness about pssd means the world to everyone that lives with it. Thank you from the bottom of my heart and all my respect to you. This interview was absolutely outstanding in so many ways.
Say it with me: PSSD IS SO MUCH MORE THAN SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION!. About 30% of my sexual dysfunction kinda healed itself but the actually hard part is getting emotional feelings back feeling alive again being able to feel emotional attraction. Your whole response system is fckd thats what it is and we should focus more on the emotional blunting because that’s the actual torture of this syndrome condition or whatever you wanna call it why so many people TW: take their own life because of this
Spot on! My anhedonia is the main things that has made my life unbearable. I used to be able to distract myself with other hobbies and spending time with friends but over the past 4 years, that doesn't work anymore. NOTHING is enjoyable. Everything that makes life worth living has been stolen from me.
@@tomburns7544 Praying for you to get better 🙏🏽 im Muslim by the way i am very strong believing in my god and i felt like i always had a being that i could hold on to if you understand what i mean. That was a bit easier for me and i regained my ability to cry my guess is because Islamic music was always the only thing that got a tear out of my eye and made me emotional for a moment. And if you believe in something very strong it will come true what you wish yourself for me i pray 5 times a day and i did 2 extra prayers a day praying for allah to make me feel better and i had a strong believe i would atleast get any spark in my life back. Islamic Nasheeds are healing to the soul relaxing and making me cry automatically even if i am never able to cry mostly and can’t feel crying and sadness impulsively and strong and from crying my emotional numbness always disappears for like 1 hour . I suggest you to try crying with sad music or Islamic Nasheeds (if ur christian, im not trying to convert you or anything Islamic Nasheeds helped me but keep in mind this is religious music) but if you want just instrumental or something listen to @halal beats on spotify this is really good for my soul and making me mentally stronger
@@TomWilks-h8r It does not always heal sadly. Under the microscope, I heard the tissue looks damaged. Sorry that happened to you. How long and what were you taking? Don't do drugs!
As a Mental Health Counsellor and Sex Therapist myself I can attest to the fact that here in Greece too, clients of mine with PFS that I have worked with have experienced all sorts of medical gaslighting from physicians and mental health professionals before they come to me when it comes to trying to find someone to listen to them and validate their experience. The sheer amount of emotional invalidation these patients face is too disheartening. I think this happens in part due to the lack of training regarding sexuality and sexual disorders in both Departments of Psychology and Medicine (at least in Europe), so medical professionals don't really know how to deal even with well known and researched sexual dysfunctions, let alone, something like PSSD or PFS. Even some colleagues of mine that I have talked with, like experienced Sex Therapists and Physicians specialized in Sexual Medicine haven't heard about these.
Ενας έλληνας με pssd εδώ και 1,5 χρόνο μετά από χρήση λαντοζ… Στην δική μου περίπτωση pssd μου περιορίζεται μόνο στο σεξουαλικό πρόβλημα και δεν ξέρω πως να το διαχειριστώ 🥲 Το να μην έχεις συναισθήματα είναι μια δύσκολη κατάσταση και το λιγότερο που σε νοιάζει είναι το σεξουαλικό πρόβλημα. Φανταστείτε όμως πόσο δύσκολο είναι για εμένα που νιώθω , αγαπάω , νοιάζομαι κτλ κτλ και να έχω σεξουαλικό πρόβλημα και να γίνομαι ψυχολογικά κουρέλι 🥹
Wanted to add, PSSD is not really a misnomer, it's just a misused term by the community. When it was coined, it was supposed to describe the sexual side effects, and nothing else as the name implies. What people should just say is that they have PSSD, persistent emotional blunting and cognitive impairment, or just simply Post-SSRI Syndrome.
@@JZGreengo I understand that. By the same logic, not everyone has brain fog or other symptoms of long covid. I have fatigue, which many people with med injuries don't have. I have 0 cognitive issues. There's also great variation between different manifestations of the emotional part. Some experience more severe avolition than emotional numbness, and vice versa. Some don't feel negative emotions, while others are only numb to positive emotions. My point is that, not only is there more than sexuality to PSSD, but also, there's a lot of variation with the other issues too. PSSD is an umbrella term for what may be very different manifestations of a brain injury.
I was told trintellix improves anhedonia and cognition caused by cepression. That was incorrect. It caused severe pssd with emotional numvness and severe cognitive dysfunction and avolition. Housebound.
Thank you for talking about this as I know someone who took 2 tamsolusions and feels the MD could have told him to drink more water for a .4mm stone instead
Dr. Witt, I would like to know more about your feelings and views about your personal experience with patients approaching you for physician assisted death. Are you able and allowed to talk about that?
Thank you. I need treatment for this because I feel as though I am dying from the loneliness of PSSD but there is no help out there. The only hope I have left for me escaping PSSD is that Canada legalizes MAiD (Medical Assistance In Dying) in March 2024 for people with mental illness because after 25 years of this horror, I can't go on much longer.
@@SimeonKirilovX Depending on how legislation plays out in Canada, I will have to look into that should things get postponed yet again for another year or two. Or I will look into "other methods".
I’m planning on going to Dignitas Switzerland too. After years of being chemically castrated by Post Finasteride Syndrome, I’ve had enough. I appreciate wat dr Witt Doerring is doing here. Finally some recognition. I’ll try to hold on to some hope, but each day I remain in hell is a day closer to ending it. Not even my worst nightmares could conceive of such a reality as this
As a PSSD sufferer i appreciate you Yassie ! Would love to set up an appointment with you because im suicidal due to this i mean would it even matter if i went through with it because someone with pssd is pretty much dead already!!!!
I am also wondering how fetuses are impacted by the bearing person taking SSRIs? (and other psychiatric drugs) Could that be a risk factor for PSSD or post-SSRI syndrome to develop in the born person's life? (and unknowingly be labeled as something else, pathological or not)
after watching a few clips on the channel the logic conclusion is that I should off myself because drugs don't work. Thanks guys, you're doing god's work, literally!
They can work, but they have under-acknowledged and under-studied risks that most doctors don't know or don't talk to you or inform you about. And they should probably be taken for a specific amount of time and tapered off properly and safely (which again, doctors don't know about). Any surgical operation under anaesthesia carries the risk of not waking up, as far as I know, but we don't deem all surgical operations for everyone non effective because of that. If you 've seen another video of this channel (I think it's one of their shorts), they say they would prescribe psychiatric medications only to the sickest of people. Because it is worth the risks I guess. But we need to know what is the percentage of people having withdrawal (especially protracted) is and, even more so, the percentage of people who get PSSD or post-SSRI syndrome (and the percentage of them that get better and how!) and the risk factors. We need research!!!
I feel the same way. I'm really tired of all of this. Now. People making $800 for a consultation for people whose lives were destroyed by these drugs but only if they have the money. I was first drugged in in 1984. I was drugged for 35 years. I was told that it was my fault, sent for ECT, told again that it was my fault, sent for TMS told again that it was my fault, polypharmacy, antipsychotics when I was never psychotic just angry at how poorly I was being treated. Was being treated. So now if I don't have a million dollars to see people who don't accept insurance, I'm screwed. I've been disabled almost 20 years. Stop going to the doctor because they don't help. They just make it worse. Somebody needs to start advocating for maid for us if you all admit that it's so bad And the fact that you charge thousands of dollars out of pocket, which the overwhelming majority of people, especially those who were completely disabled by this fraud do not have. I'm really tired of this. It's all talk and all self-congratulations and no talk about all the people who have died because of the fraud? How many suicides have there been? Nobody talks about the suicides.
Dr. Witt Doerring... if you're reading this, thank you. The work you've done to spread awareness about pssd means the world to everyone that lives with it. Thank you from the bottom of my heart and all my respect to you. This interview was absolutely outstanding in so many ways.
Those meds MUST BE BANNED IMMEDIATELY.
Yep but they make way too much money for sick and evil people. They will never stop.
Say it with me: PSSD IS SO MUCH MORE THAN SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION!. About 30% of my sexual dysfunction kinda healed itself but the actually hard part is getting emotional feelings back feeling alive again being able to feel emotional attraction. Your whole response system is fckd thats what it is and we should focus more on the emotional blunting because that’s the actual torture of this syndrome condition or whatever you wanna call it why so many people TW: take their own life because of this
Spot on! My anhedonia is the main things that has made my life unbearable. I used to be able to distract myself with other hobbies and spending time with friends but over the past 4 years, that doesn't work anymore. NOTHING is enjoyable. Everything that makes life worth living has been stolen from me.
How long did it take for your sexual dysfunction to heal itself? I'm dealing with severe form of it now for 6 months :(.
@@tomburns7544 Praying for you to get better 🙏🏽 im Muslim by the way i am very strong believing in my god and i felt like i always had a being that i could hold on to if you understand what i mean. That was a bit easier for me and i regained my ability to cry my guess is because Islamic music was always the only thing that got a tear out of my eye and made me emotional for a moment. And if you believe in something very strong it will come true what you wish yourself for me i pray 5 times a day and i did 2 extra prayers a day praying for allah to make me feel better and i had a strong believe i would atleast get any spark in my life back. Islamic Nasheeds are healing to the soul relaxing and making me cry automatically even if i am never able to cry mostly and can’t feel crying and sadness impulsively and strong and from crying my emotional numbness always disappears for like 1 hour . I suggest you to try crying with sad music or Islamic Nasheeds (if ur christian, im not trying to convert you or anything Islamic Nasheeds helped me but keep in mind this is religious music) but if you want just instrumental or something listen to @halal beats
on spotify this is really good for my soul and making me mentally stronger
@@TomWilks-h8r It does not always heal sadly. Under the microscope, I heard the tissue looks damaged. Sorry that happened to you. How long and what were you taking? Don't do drugs!
@@MOAB-UT How can the pill damage tissue?
There are also people who used it for 3 days and experienced this problem.
As a Mental Health Counsellor and Sex Therapist myself I can attest to the fact that here in Greece too, clients of mine with PFS that I have worked with have experienced all sorts of medical gaslighting from physicians and mental health professionals before they come to me when it comes to trying to find someone to listen to them and validate their experience. The sheer amount of emotional invalidation these patients face is too disheartening. I think this happens in part due to the lack of training regarding sexuality and sexual disorders in both Departments of Psychology and Medicine (at least in Europe), so medical professionals don't really know how to deal even with well known and researched sexual dysfunctions, let alone, something like PSSD or PFS. Even some colleagues of mine that I have talked with, like experienced Sex Therapists and Physicians specialized in Sexual Medicine haven't heard about these.
Ενας έλληνας με pssd εδώ και 1,5 χρόνο μετά από χρήση λαντοζ… Στην δική μου περίπτωση pssd μου περιορίζεται μόνο στο σεξουαλικό πρόβλημα και δεν ξέρω πως να το διαχειριστώ 🥲 Το να μην έχεις συναισθήματα είναι μια δύσκολη κατάσταση και το λιγότερο που σε νοιάζει είναι το σεξουαλικό πρόβλημα. Φανταστείτε όμως πόσο δύσκολο είναι για εμένα που νιώθω , αγαπάω , νοιάζομαι κτλ κτλ και να έχω σεξουαλικό πρόβλημα και να γίνομαι ψυχολογικά κουρέλι 🥹
Thank you both for discussing PSSD/Post-SSRI syndrome with such transparency and pragmatism 🙏
5 minutes in and I’m digging her paradigm sooo much.
Wanted to add, PSSD is not really a misnomer, it's just a misused term by the community. When it was coined, it was supposed to describe the sexual side effects, and nothing else as the name implies.
What people should just say is that they have PSSD, persistent emotional blunting and cognitive impairment, or just simply Post-SSRI Syndrome.
Very thorough! Thanks
Right because it’s sexual dysfunction plus feeling like long Covid, the symptoms are similar, brain fog…
Not everyone has cognitive impairment. There's a lot of variation in symptoms and severity within the post SSRI brain injuries.
@@mcb00 the point is to represent the variations who still suffer with cognitive issues because it isn’t just sexual dysfunction for everyone
@@JZGreengo I understand that. By the same logic, not everyone has brain fog or other symptoms of long covid. I have fatigue, which many people with med injuries don't have. I have 0 cognitive issues. There's also great variation between different manifestations of the emotional part. Some experience more severe avolition than emotional numbness, and vice versa. Some don't feel negative emotions, while others are only numb to positive emotions. My point is that, not only is there more than sexuality to PSSD, but also, there's a lot of variation with the other issues too. PSSD is an umbrella term for what may be very different manifestations of a brain injury.
I also have pssd. No one is suicidal because of the pssd. Were suicidal because of the brain damage the Akathesia that these drugs caused.
Yes they are, what a silly comment.
I was told trintellix improves anhedonia and cognition caused by cepression. That was incorrect. It caused severe pssd with emotional numvness and severe cognitive dysfunction and avolition. Housebound.
Thanks Yassie. Youre a badass!
i really miss being able to feel happiness, enjoying music and smoking weed doesn't help at all anymore also.
Thank you for talking about this as I know someone who took 2 tamsolusions and feels the MD could have told him to drink more water for a .4mm stone instead
Dr. Witt, I would like to know more about your feelings and views about your personal experience with patients approaching you for physician assisted death. Are you able and allowed to talk about that?
This was a great interview! Thank you both!
It's mindless nonsense.
@@noelgillett346to a mindless ignorant mind, everything looks like mindless nonsense
@@noelgillett346 Which part do you object to?
Thank you.
I need treatment for this because I feel as though I am dying from the loneliness of PSSD but there is no help out there.
The only hope I have left for me escaping PSSD is that Canada legalizes MAiD (Medical Assistance In Dying) in March 2024 for people with mental illness because after 25 years of this horror, I can't go on much longer.
I'm planning on going to Dignitas Switzerland for such a thing once i gather more money in the following year. They offer the same painless assistance
@@SimeonKirilovX Depending on how legislation plays out in Canada, I will have to look into that should things get postponed yet again for another year or two. Or I will look into "other methods".
I know how you feel bro it's mad
there is a solution MDMA, psylocybin, ketamine, LSD . but these fucks will rather see people off themselves than give them something that helps
I’m planning on going to Dignitas Switzerland too. After years of being chemically castrated by Post Finasteride Syndrome, I’ve had enough. I appreciate wat dr Witt Doerring is doing here. Finally some recognition. I’ll try to hold on to some hope, but each day I remain in hell is a day closer to ending it. Not even my worst nightmares could conceive of such a reality as this
As a PSSD sufferer i appreciate you Yassie ! Would love to set up an appointment with you because im suicidal due to this i mean would it even matter if i went through with it because someone with pssd is pretty much dead already!!!!
I am also wondering how fetuses are impacted by the bearing person taking SSRIs? (and other psychiatric drugs)
Could that be a risk factor for PSSD or post-SSRI syndrome to develop in the born person's life? (and unknowingly be labeled as something else, pathological or not)
Exactly! Same here. I’ve had three children while taking a “pregnancy safe SSRI” and I’m currently tapering off of it before having a fourth baby.
Also please look into Chris Palmers book "Brain Energy"...some hope in there?
Doctor can you do a video on sedative hypnotic addictions as these drugs are now 23 years old.
So she is pssd therapist but has no idea about any treatment for the condition?
There aren't any. What do you want her to do, lie?
after watching a few clips on the channel the logic conclusion is that I should off myself because drugs don't work. Thanks guys, you're doing god's work, literally!
there are other options
besides drugs & suicide.
They can work, but they have under-acknowledged and under-studied risks that most doctors don't know or don't talk to you or inform you about. And they should probably be taken for a specific amount of time and tapered off properly and safely (which again, doctors don't know about).
Any surgical operation under anaesthesia carries the risk of not waking up, as far as I know, but we don't deem all surgical operations for everyone non effective because of that.
If you 've seen another video of this channel (I think it's one of their shorts), they say they would prescribe psychiatric medications only to the sickest of people. Because it is worth the risks I guess.
But we need to know what is the percentage of people having withdrawal (especially protracted) is and, even more so, the percentage of people who get PSSD or post-SSRI syndrome (and the percentage of them that get better and how!) and the risk factors.
We need research!!!
I feel the same way. I'm really tired of all of this. Now. People making $800 for a consultation for people whose lives were destroyed by these drugs but only if they have the money. I was first drugged in in 1984. I was drugged for 35 years. I was told that it was my fault, sent for ECT, told again that it was my fault, sent for TMS told again that it was my fault, polypharmacy, antipsychotics when I was never psychotic just angry at how poorly I was being treated. Was being treated. So now if I don't have a million dollars to see people who don't accept insurance, I'm screwed. I've been disabled almost 20 years. Stop going to the doctor because they don't help. They just make it worse. Somebody needs to start advocating for maid for us if you all admit that it's so bad And the fact that you charge thousands of dollars out of pocket, which the overwhelming majority of people, especially those who were completely disabled by this fraud do not have. I'm really tired of this. It's all talk and all self-congratulations and no talk about all the people who have died because of the fraud? How many suicides have there been? Nobody talks about the suicides.