I've battled depression myself. Earlier this year I was up against a huge clinical depression. It does pull a nut job on your sexual drive. IN fact, just about any assessment for depression includes questions about changes in your sex drive. Not only the depression itself, but a good number of the meds for depression will decrease sex drive and cause anorgasmia. That was definitely my experience with Lexapro.What meds are you taking?Are you seeing a counselor?Are you still experiencing depression?
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Does depression stop/delay puberty/sex drive
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In reply to:you're being very good and well mannered hon, golf clap.......... I'm trying my best. But I gotta tell you, I think being good and well mannered on this board will probably prove to be more difficult than not masturbating!
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give in to your dark side damien cue dark vadar breathing masterbate and misbehave its SO much easier cough i mean this is your destiny.............
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Angel the more I think of you...and talk to you...and remember things...
Damn, girl, you are making this hard!
(heh heh...he said hard...)
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I have had it. My spelling is horrendous. I should tell the US government to have my flesh burned. No wait; I should be tied naked to a pole in the middle of New York City. Then, the citizens of the city can throw stones at me until all of my bones are broken. Then, someone can light a match under the pole, screaming for my life as I die a horrific death. I think I need more medications. And by the way, the medication I’m taking is Lexapro And Xanex, or something like that. They’re both spelled wrong; I should pay a fine of 200 dollars for each word. Smith you’re a fucking moron.
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Actually, I don't see a misspelled word in that post. And your grammer was pretty spot on. And I hope the self-flagellation was all in humor.
So back to my questions...are the meds helping you? Are you seeing a counselor? Do you still have a decreased sex drive.
I think we can salvage this thread for you, if you're game.
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If you'd spar less and focus more on the issue, it would be a lot easier to understand what the issue is.I assume you mean Xanax, which is an anti-anxiety (anxiolytic) medication. It's possible that it can cause a decrease in sex drive. Lexapro is an SSRI antidepressant, and it can have sexual side effects, such as decreased sex drive, or more likely, difficulty orgasming.In any case, it's something that you need to discuss with your doctor. I know that you're young and it's embarrassing, but doctors hear that kind of thing a thousand times a year. Talk to your doctor in private. He will keep it confidential.
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Damn, girl, you are making this hard! LOL i was put on this earth to makes things hard for people, i wasn't put here to make things easy LOL oh and the OP said he was as happy as an angel, and his only question was does depression lower or halt growth or/and sex drive........
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Now that I have relieved my unnecessary and Immature anger I'll answer the 2 questions I was asked.
The medications are as follows
Lexapro
Xanex
RisperdalOne is for depression, another, is for anxiety, and the third is for something else, it might be ticks. I'm not a very horny person but the word very is subjective, simply judging by the way that the other boys act in health class.
Sorry for getting angry, I get commented on my spelling and grammar thousands of times on forums, yes, that is an exaggeration. Fortunately, according to Microsoft word all of my word spellings are correct other than the medications, but I wrote them down and copied the spelling onto the computer.
I masturbate less than once a day which is about 3 times a week. That is much less than the average. I would never have sex even if it was protected unless there was a girl I REALLY liked and she liked me in return and it was bi-consensual. I have friends who are girls but I have no real girl friend, I don't feel I can make the commitment and besides, it would be a baby crush sort of thing, second reason I wouldn't want a girl friend is because the girl I would be friends with would have to deal with the teasing kids of the other class, I don't want others someone else to suffer simply because I'm their boy friend.
I'm seeing a counselor but my depression is gone. I might be a worry wart at times but that's anxiety. I have a problem with pulling out and cutting my eyebrows: it's pretty gross. People ask me about it and since they're too immature to handle the truth as I've learned from telling a slut named Stephanie Sanchez to went off telling all of her friends, "He picks his eye brows. Eww" after I specifically said to keep it secret and leave me alone about it. She even points at me and laughs. So I tell people that they "Fall out due to anxiety" But that's not a good enough answer for some people, they want me to tell them something that they can tell their friends and have their 15 seconds of fame, so they tell people that I SHAVE my eyebrows off. I DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO SHAVE I'M 13! (I might have to shave in 1-2 years but that's unimportant).
As for sex drives, I explained, I don't want to have sex with anyone. However I'm getting strange dreams where I want to have sex badly and I want to masturbate with other men badly as well, constantly naked and constantly horny, it's rather annoying to wake up with those kind of dreams, wet dreams do not occur.
I'm 60 percent sure that I would rather not pull my pants down in front of other guys to see how I measure up with them, I'm 70 percent sure that I would rather not masturbate with other men, I'm 60 percent sure that I would show my penis to a girl I knew well. The reason I'm only slightly more than half sure is because I might crack under pressure, I hope when the time comes, I either say no, or I'm very very very intimate with the girl who I'm with.
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Have you been diagnosed with Trichotillomania? If so you should check out this link with information for kids with the disorder: trichotillomania or hair pulling I think it might also be helpful to see a therapist or psychologist who would be open to cutting down on the meds and treating you more through therapy. Just a thought...
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I'm not giving you a hard time for spelling in general, but you should know the correct spelling of your medications:LexaproXanaxRisperdal (Risperidone)Risperdal is used to treat psychological issues. Are you now under the treatment of a psychiatrist? If you're not, you really, really, need to be, since a psychiatrist has the best expertise in using the types of meds that you're on.(By the way, pulling out your eyebrows is a common obsessive-compulsive disorder. One or more or your meds (Lexapro, at least) should help you deal with that.)
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In reply to: By the way, pulling out your eyebrows is a common obsessive-compulsive disorder. One or more or your meds (Lexapro, at least) should help you deal with that. Actually, it's not an obsessive-compulsive disorder. It's trichotillomania, which is an impulse control disorder, although it might resemble an OCD. SSRI's are commonly used to treat it, as is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
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Hi Smith916, I think people have answered at least some of your questions: depression can reduce your sex drive, and so can some antidepressants (not all - there are a few that don't). As far as I know, none of the medications you are taking should have any effect on your puberty development. Puberty development is very individual and idiosyncratic, but it's nothing unusual for your genitals not to have grown much at 13.However, you remind me very much of me in my teens - looking down too much on other people. (I would never have admitted it of myself at the time, but it was true.) IQ doesn't mean all that much. It's not a measure of how good or valuable a person you are, any more than your penis size is. If you are like me, you will need to find out that those rude, closed minded, and super horny boys are nevertheless as valuable people as you are. It took me a long time to learn that.I wonder if you are suppressing parts of yourself, and they are welling up in the dreams? Or perhaps the dreams are what you most fear?
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Hon, i suggest from now on you get angry with the person whose comments you didn't like, it wasn't me that commented on your spelling and grammar etc.
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LOL I'm sure glad that I got in first and didn't get caught in the cross-flame. I wonder if Smith even read my response (without any comment on IQ, spelling, etc.)?
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**I don't think he read either of ours, maybe hes just too darn intelligent to get what we were saying LOL **
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People need to cut some slack, where appropriate. In this case, it would be appropriate.
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Steve has spoken.
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See PM.
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I didn't do a microsoft word check on this so the spelling is gonna be bad. If I were to ever become one of those flaming in your face, "You must suffer" haters, and immature, as well as low grades and large apathy, I'd kill myself.