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Noun
post-SSRI sexual dysfunction (uncountable)
- (medicine, pathology) A permanent condition of physical and psychological sexual anhedonia, among other symptoms, that occurs in around 1 in 200 people who have consumed SRI drugs (SSRIs, SNRIs, etcetera), more often afflicting introverts and autism-spectrum individuals, and which is caused by the permanent desensitization of some serotonin receptors.
- Synonyms: PSSD (initialism), post-SSRI syndrome
2018 June 8, anonymous author, “My life in sex: ‘After taking antidepressants, my genitals felt numb’”, in The Guardian:I've since discovered this side-effect isn't uncommon and has a name: PSSD (post-SSRI sexual dysfunction). I know men who also suffer with PSSD and struggle with the same genital numbness and anorgasmia, coupled with erectile dysfunction.