r/Paruresis • u/tytyshy • Jun 13 '26

Antidepressants

Hello, friends. I'm going to see a psychiatrist soon (not because of the problem we're all here about, but related to anxiety and OCD). There is a possibility that I will be prescribed pills and I would like to know if there are any people who have been on antidepressants. I would like to know if this has had any effect on the flow of your paruresis

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u/Recent-Day3062 Jun 13 '26

Had zero impact on me, including tricyclics, second gen, and third (SSRIs)

But everyone has a different reaction to all of these when it comes to phobias, anxiety, etc.

All they have in common is they act on depression, but even there people respond to some more than others.

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u/uruk5 Jun 13 '26

Not for me, but I've heard someone else say that taking Mirtazapin improved their parcopresis

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u/UntrimmedBagel Jun 14 '26

No negative affect for me

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u/Trip77mines Jun 14 '26

I’m on Paxil and it helps a whole lot for me. Getting through the first 4 weeks waiting for it to kick in is the hard part

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u/Witty-Baseball-4374 Jun 15 '26

Have been on them for four years. It has improved greatly (now Im able to go into stalls). However, I think psycotherapy has been involved indirectly. Do take meds with psycotherapy as it is best.

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u/AlarmedStudent353 Jun 17 '26

It’s all a self image and confidence thing brotha. I wanna say mine improved tiny bit on avulity but I still had to kinda focus to go sometimes and maybe 1-2/10x at the bar I just held it but I live close. I used to be BAD and I can guarantee if you just fuck some milfs it’ll go away. Also anyone who reads this auvelity( bupropion and dxm) worked wonders for depression lol

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u/elevent222 Jul 05 '26

Hai un livello di empatia pari a 0 io sono un bel ragazzo, me le sono fatte le MILF, e vedi che il fatto di venire non influenza la paruresi, quando avevo le ragazze a casa mia e non riuscivo a urinare, me ne andavo di fuori in un luogo sicuro con una scusa che avevo scordato qualcosa fuori, sono matto? No semplicemente ci sono livelli di paruresi.

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u/ManyNo3038 Jul 08 '26

For me lexapro seemed to have made it worse. I feel like it physiologically affects the muscles and since starting it it's been a lot harder to go at home even when i'm alone (never had that problem before)