PSSD Webinar on 29 July 2021. Healy and Reisman (Video)

General Discussion Media & Awareness
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This Webinar is comprehensive on the topic of Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD), hosted by the International Society for Sexual Medicine (ISSM), with the participation of Professor David Healy, psychiatrist, psychopharmacologist now working in Cananda, and Professor Yacov (Cobi) Reisman, urologist and sexologist in the Netherlands. If you have the opportunity to share this video with patients, potential patients, specialists and doctors, it would be very helpful.

Perhaps the only important detail not considered here, due to the fact that it is so recent, is the first experimental study on this subject that was published, an Italian study which examined neurosteroid levels in rats during and after the administration of an SSRI, paroxetine, and found persistent changes following its discontinuation. This is very interesting, but it remains to be seen whether these changes are the same as those that can cause persistent sexual (sometimes also sensory, emotional and cognitive) dysfunction in some people who have previously taken serotonergic drugs.
Effects of paroxetine treatment and its withdrawal on neurosteroidogenesis (2021) https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1dTfu15hUdTGgL
Link to the full text valid until 14 September 2021.

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How to get impact on social media:

  1. don’t just post an hour long video and say “share and like”

People definitely won’t do this. Have you watched it? What does it say? Where are some good moments? Who are these people who are talking, etc. Etc. Etc. I CAN find this out, but most people won’t. You need to make it easy for people. Is an hour long video the right form? If you can’t cut a clip out to help people, maybe you could give a timestamp.

No offence intended, but if we’re actually going to make a dent in awareness, more effort is needed.

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Thank you very much for sharing, Anaclet.

#4

I agree. Making small digestable clips of the more succinct points would be bring in more eyeballs. The problem is, no one wants to do these things. We could dominate social media if we collectivize our efforts.

#5

Thanks for the suggestions but I can imagine. personally I do too much on several fronts if I compare myself to others, since 2014 with an automatic translator. (still haven’t learned English well? lol) to do things better I wouldn’t need ideas, only my own motivation and to see others doing things better.

I distributed this video a lot on facebook yesterday, changing comments according to where I posted it. the bigger groups of science, medicine and psychiatrists did not approve of course, from the smaller groups of patients I got some comments and questions.

#6

I’m sure you’re doing a lot and that effort is appreciated. I’m sorry for being critical, but convincing people to stop and pay attention to your content, is a big deal. Why am I going to watch your video vs the millions of others? Just because it says PSSD in the title? Do you expect everyone to watch every video with PSSD in the title? Most people will not. You need to sell it. You particularly need to sell it to people outside these communities.

It’s an hour long video, I don’t know who’s talking, or what they’re talking about. You need to make it more compelling.

I know it’s a pssd webinar featuring “Healy and Reisman” from the topic title, that’s it.

Despite posting here for years, I don’t know who Reisman is. I know what PSSD is, but why do I want to watch an hour long video?

I think your content would perform better if you said something like:

“This is a conversation about… between Healy who is… and Reisman who is… there’s an interesting part at 00:00 which I think really explains… find out more at www…”

You can make that even more compelling by saying something like:

Doctor discusses scandal of harm done by prescription medicines. (I presume, I still have no idea what the video is about) Then saying who the speakers are and some more detail.

If you’re going to try and get people to watch, you need to make it as easy as possible, make them want to watch, ask nothing of them but that they press play. It’s not much more work to write a few lines, but it could be the difference that convinces, many more people to watch.

#7

I do what you said in fact, 1.depending on where I post 2.depending on the mood or time of the moment. i thought that PFS and PSSD forums and groups could be already informed contexts from which to seek help in dissemination.

I edited the first post here anyway

Reisman has already written about PSSD in the literature:

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#8

I think you are already familiar with David Healy’s intensive work on PSSD.
Regular updates and news can be found on the Rxisk.org blog.
Here is a summary page (something that is missing from wikipedia for PSSD at the moment)
https://rxisk.org/post-ssri-sexual-dysfunction-pssd/.

I really appreciated Reisman’s intervention in the Webinar, and his request to doctors to be honest with their patients, informing them of the side effects and risks of persistent dysfunction after discontinuation. Just some slide:

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#9

A short video presentation of the webinar