Vol 15, No 1 (2018)
Review paper
Published online: 2018-03-28
Sexual dysfunction in the course of depressive disorders
Psychiatria 2018;15(1):39-44.
Abstract
Sexual dysfunctions are a significant part of the symptomatology of depression. Depression as well as sexual dysfunctions
are a serious health issue of many people. They suffer not only due to the direct consequences of those disorders, but
also because of their stigmatizing nature. Despite the available research, their interdependence as well as the correlation
between appearing and resolution of sexual dysfunctions during anti-depressive pharmacotherapy remains unclear. The
available research often focuses on individual aspects of the problem, assessing the relation between specific sexual
dysfunctions and depression (sexual dysfunctions viewed as symptoms of depression) or the impact of anti-depressive
therapy on sexual dysfunction incidence (sexual dysfunctions as adverse events of anti-depressive drugs). Some, on the
other hand, generalize this subject while including sexual dysfunctions in broad assessments of depression symptomatology.
One can observe a different constellation of individual dysfunctions depending on the phase of depression
therapy. This report is meant to present some of the available research materials and help to organize this knowledge,
as well as indicate multiple directions of further required explanations of the complex causal relations between sexual
dysfunctions and depressive disorders.
Keywords: depressiondrugssexual dysfunctions
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