Timm Thaler wrote:Let me explain a bit better what I believe:
Trauma usually causes 'overarousal' but in extreme and rare cases it can cause a complete shutdown of the system. The symptoms of complete shutdown and PSSD are exactly the same. That is what I find stunning!
And that is why I believe that the neurophysiological mechanism behind both, severe trauma with complete shutdown and PSSD are the same. The shutdown that we experience was no doubt caused by the SSRI for all the reasons that numby just pinned down.
It does not mean that everyone with PSSD had severe trauma in their lifes, it just means that the same neuropsychiological mechanism is in place. And there might be a predisposition due to earlier traumatic experiences that makes it more likely for some of us to trigger that mechanism after SSRI use.
That is why I believe or at least hope that trauma therapy can act on PSSD symptoms the same way it acts on trauma symptoms.
infinityzer00000 wrote:Stress and trauma can cause the same symptoms yet no one here will listen. I don't understand. We took these stupid pills for a reason. I am officially off my SSRI and recovering from severe trauma and stress and my sexual functioning is coming back.
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