- Tips for maintaining an active sex life while experiencing depression
- 1. Understand what you like best about sex and explore other horizons
- 2. Chat with your partner
- 3. Don't just wait when you feel like it
- 4. Focus on treating the disease
Sex can function as a natural antidepressant, as the chemical changes that happen in the brain during and after intimate contact can help improve mood, increase libido and confidence, decreasing the effects of depression.
Intimate contact produces chemical brain changes that improve mood due to the release of testosterone, estrogen, serotonin and prostaglandins into the bloodstream, hormones that regulate body functions and the ability to deal with stress. Thus, a sexually active life can help to maintain adequate hormone levels, which will help in the treatment of depression.
Tips for maintaining an active sex life while experiencing depression
Maintaining an active sex life while having depression can be a challenge, as this disease ends libido and sexual desire, but with dedication and medical monitoring, you can maintain an active sex life that will contribute to your improvements. So, there are some tips that can help you maintain an active sex life while fighting this disease, such as:
1. Understand what you like best about sex and explore other horizons
Getting to understand what attracts you the most in intimate contact with your partner is a good way to start overcoming the lack of sexual desire. Often, just having the idea of ​​maintaining sexual contact can seem too tiring and costly, so it is important to focus intimate contact on your tastes and interests. In addition, trying other ways of having sex can also help, as other ways can be found that increase pleasure and facilitate orgasm.
2. Chat with your partner
Talking to your partner about how you feel and your lack of sexual desire can be of great help, as this way you can both start to combat this lack of desire in other ways, also reducing the anxiety and fear that can exist in regarding this matter.
3. Don't just wait when you feel like it
Sex is only good when you feel like it, but if you are going through a depression, it never seems to come or the moment never seems to be ideal. Thus, it is important that you do not constantly avoid your partner, making an effort every now and then for the moment to arise.
4. Focus on treating the disease
It is important to focus on the treatment of the disease and not on sex and the lack of sexual desire, as this lack of desire can cause insecurity, fear and anxiety, damaging your relationship and may even aggravate the disease.
The relationship that exists between sex and depression can be complicated, because while on the one hand intimate contact stimulates the production of hormones, improving mood, self-esteem and attenuating the remaining effects of depression, on the other hand, depression is a disease that wipes out libido and sexual desire and robs security and confidence. So, in order to overcome your depression more easily, it is important that you maintain an active and healthy intimate relationship with your partner and it is important not only to focus on the lack of sexual desire but also on the treatment of the disease, which should be indicated and accompanied by a psychiatrist.
In addition, to contribute to a better control of hormonal changes, you should also try to have a good diet and regular sleep hours and try to practice physical activity to combat the physical and mental tiredness associated with this disease. See other tips that can help you overcome depression in How to get out of Depression.
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