Monday, January 24, 2011

Low Libido in Men

If you are a male who has suffered from depression of any duration or strength your physician may well have prescribed anti-depressants to resolve this problem. Unfortunately many of the major brand anti-depressants result in lowered libido and also an inability to achieve or maintain an erection. If this side-effect were mentioned at the time of prescription it would be interesting to see just how many men would go ahead with the medication. It may well sort the serious depression cases from the lighter ones where medication is just inappropriate and overkill.
Doctors nowadays are quick to pull out the prescription pad to resolve any mental problem. This reflects their training. They see all psychological phenomena as resulting from the action of chemicals or neurotransmitters in the brain. The viewpoint implies a totally materialistic view of the world where our emotions and possibly thoughts can be handled with chemicals.
Unfortunately, giving someone a drug does not resolve the cause of the problem. It may well mask the symptom but it will never handle the cause. Perhaps the person is depressed because his marriage is failing. Chemicals won't fix that. He may need to actually do something - takes some positive action to resolve the issues affecting his marriage. He may need to communicate with his spouse and hash out these issues.
Sex drive is a result of hormonal activity in the body. Hormones are chemical messengers that carry communication between different organs in the body. The chemicals contained in anti-depressants have been shown to have a major suppressing effect on these hormones. Of course you may wish to try switching medications, or you could attempt to treat the real cause of your depression, if it still in fact exists and resolve the need for the anti-depressant in the first place.
Be aware that coming off anti-depressants must be done gradually and your body will need good nutrition while you are in this process, especially protein and vitamin C. But many people have successfully achieved this and restored their mental balance naturally.
Sometimes the effects of these drugs take a while to wear off even though you have come off them completely so you may choose to boost your sex drive using a natural supplement that helps to raise your testosterone.

1 comment:

  1. there are many ways to improve the male libido. most male take some treatment by taking aphrodisiac foods and exercise it can increase your metabolism and libido.

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