sex and drugs

I’m going to go out on a limb here, because I don’t have grant money, test subjects, or drugs to play with(Excuse me, do research with). Depression is directly connected with sexuality. Depressives seek sexual experience for the ego boost and affection that it brings. Sexuality becomes a way to relieve depression.

That is why those who take anti-depressives often experience a loss of sexual desire, or the pleasure therein. The psychological-industrial complex commonly addresses this loss of libido and/or sexual function in a list of side effects, with the same priority as a hacking cough, or itchiness. They assume that it is a simple chemical result, failing to recognize any behavioral component.

“Well, you ought to seek out a healthy relationship” is almost never the advice given to a depressive seeking help. When it is, it’s only after magic pills. Somehow the white-coats have no hesitations prescribing in a way that might stifle someone’s sexuality. When did mechanically altering one’s brain chemistry become a less radical approach than seeking out human affection? 2 depressives finding one another to relieve their loneliness and boredom, in my estimation, is better than lone depressives getting prescriptions for happiness and being let loose on the world as frigid, SSRI robots.