People suffer with a life-draining cloud that typically saps their joy, energy and desire for work, play, food and sex too. Once acknowledged and properly treated, depression can usually be relieved, restoring the enthusiasm for life and all it has to offer. Depression can be lifted in many of the patients by antidepressant medications. People who are treated with these and other psychiatric drugs the cure though highly effective in making life significant again, falls short in a major area. Instead of raising libido and the aptitude to achieve sexual fulfillment, popular antidepressants commonly cause a loss of attention in sex and block the ability to achieve sexual satisfaction. If psychiatric drugs were taken like antibiotics for the period of 10 days or so, patients and their partners could simply cope with a temporary disruption of their sex lives. But recurrently depressed people require treatment for years together. Sexual crippling people can be in serious problem that rapids them to stop taking the drugs, often without telling their doctors.

Other then drugs:

According to doctors there are less drastic solutions than heavy medications. It includes taking short drug holidays and switching to a new drug that seems to have little or no ill effect on sexuality. Physicians rarely hear about a majority of people whose sex lives are disrupted by antidepressant drugs. If not asked directly that expert say happens occasionally, patients rarely volunteer such information. Unless the physician assesses the patient's sexual function before prescribing medicine, it may be not possible to tell whether the drug has caused or contributed to sexual dysfunction.

Identifying sexual problems:

Drug related problems that occurs in women as often as in men, may include decreased or lost libido. It may cause to inability to achieve an erection or ejaculation and delayed or blocked orgasm. After weeks or months of therapy, the patient's depression has lifted drastically. The presence of any sexual problems must again be determined. The problem stems more from the relationship than the medication. The drug is not likely to be the cause when a patient's libido is depressed with a wife but not with another partner or when orgasm can be reached during masturbation but not coitus. But when a once potent patient has erectile harms with a partner and also has no impulsive nocturnal erections, the drug is a probable cause.