Anti depressants can affect your Love Life

Effects of Anti depressants: According to a new Health study among women who are on  anti-depressants says that  a particular drug type called the  tricyclic antidepressants affect your sexual feeling and your love life.  According to the study published in the Journal of Affective Disorders , drugs called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), which work mainly through the serotonin system, were found to be affecting men’s feelings while drugs called tricyclic antidepressants seem to affect women’s feelings.During the study, they compared the effects of SSRIs and tricyclic antidepressants on the love lives of 192 people with depression – 123 women and 69 men – and whose mean age was 41. Researchers found that those taking SSRIs were more likely to say they felt less at ease with sharing their partners’ thoughts and feelings. Men taking SSRIs reported being less likely to ask their partners for help or advice.

 “The loss of sexual desire and sexual feelings are common manifestations of depressive illness itself,” said Hagop S. Akiskal from the University of California, San Diego, who conducted these studies. Women on tricyclics were more likely to complain about disturbances in their sex life than men who had been taking tricyclics, the study noted.