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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
Drugs and antidepressants are medications that affect levels of the neurotransmitters of dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin. These drugs have a predominant effect on pathologically reduced mood (depressive effect), they do not cause an increase in mood in healthy individuals. When taken correctly, anti-anxiety drugs are extremely effective in treating many mental and depressive illnesses. Anti-anxiety drugs, like any psychoactive substance (substance acting at the level of the central nervous system), have a number of side effects. Treatment with antidepressants can cause several side effects, and erectile dysfunction is one of them.Erectile DysfunctionED is one of the main reasons for non-compliance with the therapy regimen. The sexual function should be actively and objectively assessed at baseline (before using medication), at regular intervals during therapy, and after stopping treatment.Effect of antidepressants on sexual functionThe reasons why antidepressants can cause side effects in sexual function are not fully understood. Perhaps they are due to the fact that each drug acts in the body according to the individual characteristics of a person. Sexuality is complex and involves numerous psychological and physiological processes. Neurotransmitters, including serotonin, norepinephrine, dopamine, acetylcholine, GABA, nitric oxide, and oxytocin play a role in normal sexual function. In particular, erection and sexual arousal are associated with the parasympathetic nervous system while the acetylcholine and norepinephrine-dependent sympathetic nervous system is more associated with ejaculation.Different groups of anti-anxiety drugs have different effects on sexual function, more often this side effect is characteristic of the group of tricyclic antidepressants (amitriptyline and Anafranil) and SSRIs
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