Emotional blunting

This is why men are feeling less and less pleasure — plus an easy way to fix it and double or even triple pleasure instead

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What do you do when someone punches you in the face without any warning?

You’d probably either dodge or block the attack.

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Emotional blunting

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To say that I’m not a big fan of SSRIs – a class of antidepressant treatments – is an understatement.

Despite being used extensively, these treatments are difficult for many people to get off of.

They often have nasty sexual side effects, and don’t have better results for many people than moderate exercise to treat depression.

“For some people it works as well as antidepressants, although exercise alone isn’t enough for someone with severe depression,” says Dr. Michael Craig Miller, assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

That’s a topic for another day. Today, I want to address one of the most common side effects of SSRIs – emotional blunting.

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If you are currently using SSRIs, you should never quit them without doctor supervision.

People often need to have a step down plan to get off of these treatments.

One of the things that is troubling about these treatments is that they were originally studied and meant for short term use.

But they are now being used by people for years and sometimes decades.

To date, most studies of SSRIs have only examined their short term use, but, for clinical use in depression these ‘treatments’ are taken chronically, over a longer period of time.

We don’t really know what the long term effect of taking SSRIs for multiple years is. To me, that’s scary.

But researchers at the University of Cambridge have found out why these treatments often have the troubling side effect of emotional blunting.

Scientists have worked out why common antidepressants cause around a half of users to feel emotionally ‘blunted’. In a study published today, they show that the ‘treatments’ affect reinforcement learning, an important behavioral process that allows us to learn from our environment.

The blunting effect has to do with a type of learning that these treatments interfere with.

They interfere with what is called reinforcement learning or learning from our environments.

However, the key novel finding was that there was reduced reinforcement sensitivity on two tasks for the escitalopram group compared to those on placebo. Reinforcement learning is how we learn from feedback from our actions and environment.

In other words, these treatments make you less sensitive to rewards.

Emotional blunting is a common side effect of SSRI antidepressants. In a way, this may be in part how they work — they take away some of the emotional pain that people who experience depression feel, but, unfortunately, it seems that they also take away some of the enjoyment. From our study, we can now see that this is because they become less sensitive to rewards, which provide important feedback

It’s part of how they block pain, but because the SSRIs make you less sensitive to rewards they also block PLEASURE.

Ugh. That might explain why patients taking SSRIs often have sexual side effects, including low libido and not being able to reach orgasm.

The finding may also explain the one difference the team found in the self-reported questionnaires, that volunteers taking escitalopram had more trouble reaching orgasm when having sex, a side effect often reported by patients.

I know that depression can be a very difficult condition to deal with and that SSRIs are commonly used to help people cope.

But that doesn’t mean these treatments have no problems or are “safe.”

I believe that depression is usually very treatable if you have the right tools.

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Matt Cook is editor-in-chief of Daily Medical Discoveries. Matt has been a full time health researcher for 26 years. ABC News interviewed Matt on sexual health issues not long ago. Matt is widely quoted on over 1,000,000 websites. He has over 300,000 daily newsletter readers. Daily Medical Discoveries finds hidden, buried or ignored medical studies through the lens of 100 years of proven science. Matt heads up the editorial team of scientists and health researchers. Each discovery is based upon primary studies from peer reviewed science sources following the Daily Medical Discoveries 7 Step Process to ensure accuracy.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41386-022-01523-xhttps://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/01/230122215758.htmhttps://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/exercise-is-an-all-natural-treatment-to-fight-depression