PSSD in the Media

2023

Sexual Dysfunction After Stopping SSRI Antidepressants - The New York Times (nytimes.com) (New York Times)

Irish Independent: Post SSRI sexual dysfunction — PSSD Network (Irish Independent)

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12409519/chemically-castrated-patient-warns-against-SSRI.html (The Daily Mail)

https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkazkv/big-dick-injury-era (Vice)

Irish Independent: Post SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (Irish Independent)

https://getmegiddy.com/post-ssri-sexual-dysfunction (Giddy)

BBC: Are My Antidepressants Worth It? (BBC)

BBC: The Antidepressant Story (BBC)

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/body/antidepressants-permanently-destroyed-my-sex-life/ (The Telegraph)

2022

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11269871/The-hidden-epidemic-sexual-dysfunction-experts-blame-SSRI-antidepressants.html (The Daily Mail)

2021

https://thetyee.ca/News/2021/11/02/Something-Sacred-Has-Been-Taken-Away/ (The Tyee)

2020

Doctors urged to recognize post-antidepressant sexual dysfunction (Rosalind Dewar)

2019

Antidepressant Withdrawal and Scientific Consensus (Christopher Lane - Psychology Today)

Post SSRI Sexual Dysfunction Recognized as Medical Condition (Christopher Lane - Psychology Today)

How depression pills can wreck your sex life: Fresh warning for patients (Jo Waters - Daily Mail)

U-turn as Psychiatrists say patients should be warned of antidepressant withdrawal risk (Helen McArdle - The Herald)

Call for patients to be warned over potential antidepressant withdrawal symptoms (ITV)

I know antidepressant withdrawal symptoms are real. Why didn't doctors? (Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett - The Guardian)

Ant-depressants CAN ruin lives: Major U-turn as psychiatrists say millions of patients MUST be warned over severe side effects (Ben Spencer - Daily Mail)

Clinical Guidelines on Antidepressant Withdrawal Urgently Need Updating (Mad in America)

Patients are STILL not being warned of withdrawal pain from depression pills, say experts (Jonathan Gornall - Daily Mail)

Antidpressants are crushing Americans' sex drive: Millions say they were not warned the pills would affect their libido and ability to orgasm - but quitting can be agony (Natalie Rahhal - Daily Mail)

The Challenge of Going Off Psychiatric Drugs (The New Yorker)

Lasting Damage from Prescribed Drugs (Mad in America)

Antidepressant Withdrawal: An Unknown Disorder? (Fiammetta Cosci)

2018

Antidepressants were supposed to help me but they ended up making me impotent (Daryl Brown, Metro UK)

Antidepressant Withdrawal and Patient Safety (Christopher Lane, Psychology Today)

Systematic Review Finds Antidepressant Withdrawal Common and Potentially Long-lasting (Mad in America)

Antidepressant Withdrawal Symptoms Severe (The Guardian)

Citizens Petition Calls for Sexual Side Effect Warnings (Mad in America)

2017

I don't know who I am without it: the truth about long-term antidepressant use (The Guardian)

Depression pills sabotaged my love life: Woman reveals how anti-depressants crushed her libido (Daily Mail)

2016

I started Zoloft Five Years Ago. I haven't felt Sexual Sensation Since (Narratively)

2015

The Post Orgasmic High (Broadly Vice)

So Long, and Thanks for All the Serotonin (David Healy, Mad in America)

2014

Pills That Kill Your Sex Drive (Men's Health)

1990

They Said it was Safe (The Guardian)