S.S.R.I.'s

I have no complaints with the pharmaceutical industry: S.S.R.I. [Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor] medications have saved thousands of lives. I know people who would likely be dead had they not been prescribed such medication. Yet the No. 1 complaint about S.S.R.I.'s is that your sexual desire is reduced to almost nil right at a time in which productive, intimate relationships seem most possible. Providing such patients the opportunity to maintain sexual desire seems amazingly ethical and societally positive. I can only assume that those of you critiquing the possibility of this drug hitting the market have little experience with people being treated for debilitating depression or simply little empathy for their plight.

ELLIOT, Oakland, Calif.

["Reply All" / The New York Times Magazine, Sunday, May 26, 2013, p. 8.]

NOTE: The reduced libido effects of taking the S.S.R.I.'s causes a corresponding reduction in the "toxic affect" of any undischarged libido, which in turn temporarily reduces the strength of the underlying bisexual conflict, thereby ameliorating the disturbing symptoms of the existing mental illness which the S.S.R.I.'s are being prescribed for.

Is this "Reply All" correspondent, "Elliot", male or female? An "educated guess" would be it is a female (with a unisex name) who writes from firsthand experience about the general libido-lowering effects of S.S.R.I. medications.