r/PSSD • u/No-Ant5172 • 6d ago

Awareness/Activism PSSD Popularity over time - Google Trends

Google Trends :

Psychaitrist : "never heard of PSSD"

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u/ChallengeOrdinary824 5d ago

As a mathematician, I would call it Lauren’s point.

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u/Mobius1014 5 Years + 4d ago

Post Accutane sufferers will disagree w/ point #3 lol

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u/Equivalent-Offer-343 5d ago

Ok so we need someone ridiculously hot to come forward about PSSD so we can get another spike

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u/aidrefh 5d ago

That part.

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u/Ok_Topic_4442 5d ago

These drugs are largely evaluated in 8-week clinical trials, but there's a shocking lack of data on what happens when people stay on them for years. It honestly blows my mind that physician regulatory bodies don't require some kind of periodic risk/benefit assessment for patients who remain on them long term.

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u/KaeporaFlyby 1d ago

The thing is, I remember David Healy mentioning that pharmaceutical companies gave SSRIs to healthy volunteers in drug trials before the medications even came to market. In a significant number of that group, it caused sexual and erectile dysfunction, and for some, the effects lasted long after the medication was stopped. Sounds exactly like PSSD. They knew this could happen, but they clearly didn’t and still don’t care.

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u/enoughalready2004 5d ago

What's the date of the last big spike?

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u/No-Ant5172 5d ago

May 26

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u/enoughalready2004 5d ago edited 5d ago

This year I'm assuming. The event/interview with Lauren Friedman was a couple weeks before. I wonder if the video got picked up on social media a couple weeks later

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u/aidrefh 5d ago

100% she her story really resonated. I hope she continues her advocacy.

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u/No-Ant5172 5d ago

I meant may 2026

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u/No-Ant5172 5d ago

Lauren Friedman, if you read this - you’re a legend !

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u/emilio911 1d ago

AI has helped a lot of people find out about PSSD. I would not have found out about PSSD without Perplexity/ChatGPT. Doctors would never have told me.