![]() Those are well-known side effects, but it turns out that delayed orgasm and losing that itch are only two of the many ways antidepressants can handicap romance. The drug eased my anxieties during the day but jumpstarted them in bed. When I was on Zoloft for two years in my early 30s, sex became like a footrace in snowmobile boots. I wish I could be certain it failed entirely on its own merits." He was my first lover we were crazy about each other. We went out for two years-a long time when you're 18. "I'll never know what role the drug played," she says, clearly wrestling with the thought. She was given antidepressants after a visit to the campus health center to talk about her anxiety, an ordinary window of distress she now views as minor. "The drug definitely diminished my interest in sex," says Sharpe, the author of Coming of Age on Zoloft. Its fate could have been sealed by a prescription medication she never really needed in the first place. But there's another reason the love affair may have hit the skids, says the 34-year-old, and it doesn't sit quite so well. And as she points out, "sex inside a stable relationship is sometimes the glue that holds people together." She also admits that the flame could have gone out on its own. ![]() What she does know is that over time, her physical desire for the man she dated in college began to wither. Katherine Sharpe will never know what caused her first serious relationship to end. ![]()
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