Not recoveredBoth symptoms clearesquire.com (interviewed first-person)
45-stephen-lexapro-restart-pssd
Open original source ↗“I have a blank mind, and I lost all my feelings of love... I can't feel any attraction... I can look at pornography and feel nothing. It's like staring at a brick wall... My life has been completely destroyed. I'm basically disabled.”
- Cause
- escitalopram/Lexapro for years from college then weaned 2023; short restart Sep 2023 (~6 days) then stop; PSSD crashed ~2 weeks later. Attribution: second-course Lexapro.
- Duration
- from ~Oct 2023 through Mar 2026 interview (~2.5 years); still ill
- Recovery notes
- Admitted to a psychiatric facility after the crash. Still 'basically disabled' at interview. No recovery protocol described. Same article quotes Sean (adjacent, id 54-adj in watch notes): emotional+sexual numbing after one later SSRI pill.