Probably no surprise to anyone:
CONCLUSION:
Patients with schizophrenia experience their sex life as an area of particular dissatisfaction. Future research should identify context and reasons for this dissatisfaction.
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Definitely no surprise. Sex is often overwrought with anxiety and delusion for me. My homosexuality doesn’t help the situation any.
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Actually @SzAdmin, I’d really love it if I woke up one morning and my sex drive was gone. Kaput! Finito! No more inappropriate crushes and wanting to put lines on random women in public. Oh, and no more being tempted to join another dating site I really can’t afford. It may not do much for the women who still want me, but anyway…
ditto, with what @Lexicon said, delusions weigh heavily on me.
Like, I had bad experiences with police officers and eventually became paranoid about being framed, murdered by police, etc…but oddly I became erotomanically attracted to whoever pulled me over. If I saw a cop, I’d go home and feel intense urges that all revolved around being held against my will by police-a hold over from my psychotic episodes. Police is just example 1, there are plenty more that explain why sex is correlated to things like surveillance, police, fear…and mind reading
I still have a sex drive, but it’s all merged with parts of my illness now.
I’m gonna say that the medications play a big part in this too. I can’t speak to the other stuff but the meds are a catastrophe on your hormones
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Most patients complain about it, it is described in almost every antipsychotic as side effect and then “little is known”… More research, please! We need to “demand” better drugs… not only accidental drugs. Antipsychotics ruined my sexual life, and there is evidence as dose decrease sexual function re establish, and I am not believing also the disease itself decreases sexuality, and in fact prodomal phase of my schizophrenia had strange positive facts. The only positive fact now is that am less exposed to some infectious diseases, the risk decreases.
I’m completely satisfied without it, in fact one could say i ■■■■■■■hate it for numerous reasons.
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My sex drive is low but it’s still there. Without antipsychotics it’s too high and even the slightest breeze would trigger an erection. Sex is a little bit overrated.
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Could just be that we’re schizo and see all things as having deeper relevance… that deeper relevance falls unsatisfied in the face of actual sex even though it seems appealing as an idea. Our partners are pretty enough or we aren’t pretty enough… or partner 1 or 2 isn’t performing so well or I’m not performing so well. Rejection hurts… yadda yadda…
Then in the interim between sexing… we talk to aliens and stuff… which is more interesting? This gross and complicated physical interchange with pains and disappointments all around? Or just pandering off into the la-la lands of psycho-imaginative fancy.
I’d honestly like to suggest low satisfaction with sex is common across the entire human species…
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I’m not always comfortable around other people. It goes without saying that sex is a problem in this context.
Before I became MI (June of 2015) I slept with everybody and their brother and cousin in the hopes of love and/or financial stability and I , quite often, wasn’t even attracted to them and didn’t enjoy it. I basically allowed them to use my body to masturbate with. No self-worth at all.
So… living with Dad and being celibate is a welcome reprieve. I have not had sex since May of 2015, right before I was diagnosed (a programmer from Amazon I met on an airplane that I let use me because he said he was going to help me with my website-he didn’t) and I am perfectly happy single and celibate. I would masturbate now and then but meds leave me with no desire.
Summary: I think my sex drive is (always has been) low to normal and I don’t blame my MI for that. My dissatisfaction is from my own behavior from BEFORE I was MI and now I feel free’d from that since my life changed dramatically (living with dad, meds etc.). I am not happy I am MI, but the side effect of not being used anymore is welcome.
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Haven’t had a sex life for 27 years. When I had one it was erratic. I think it was mixture of the lithium I was on and psychological.
I was not a very skilled lover. Some of us are just not very good at that kind of thing.
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My sex drive is stupidly high which often leaves me dissatisfied.
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Seriously? Women never seen to want it (per my male friends). I thought I was like a sex addict or wwirdo for desiring it multiple times a day.
Hey I used to get plenty!! Sure it was all demons and evil spirits and non-consensual, but the quantity was impressive! 
I’m older so don’t care as much anymore, meds do slow me down but I don’t worry about it, after a life of a super high sex drive, I look at it as a gift. Yeah would like to be young again , but not like I was
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I get low satisfaction because i’m a virgin
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Well the medication is a chemical castration to the libido so maybe that has something to do with it.
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Imagine having Aspergers too.
Sex had never been satisfactory to me after the AP’s and the antidepressants started at age 31. And it seems I always had unsympathetic male doctors too. So, I just finally gave up and became celibate. I had a super high sex drive before age 31 though. So, I guess I’m not complaining.
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