Hi,
Sorry, I guess this is kind of just venting, but I (19 [almost 20] f) am really struggling. I’ve always had sexual dysfunction issues, and I don’t know if I’ve always been like this, or if they were caused by the SSRIs I was on when I was younger, or what, but it’s just really weighing on me lately.
Title says it all, I guess, but I can’t orgasm and sometimes I can’t even feel all that much. I have a high libido, I like having sex, I have a (long distance) girlfriend whom I love and has been my biggest supporter about this for years, but recently I’ve just been so disheartened by the fact that I can’t orgasm no matter what I do.
I’ve been to the doctor twice. once was a woman who told me at 17 “you’re not a man, so there’s not much we can do”, which embarrassed me so much I didn’t try to seek help again until two years later. The second woman I saw was much kinder, but she suggested therapy and I was just in such a weird point in my life I kept putting off until I forgot about, and suddenly it’s been almost a year and I never reached out to anyone.
I’ve been to therapy before, I’ve had so many therapists for so many things, and it’s helped with nothing. I don’t see how another therapist would help me when at least part of my issue is I barely have any feeling. I don’t usually care, so I don’t know why it’s making me so upset lately, but it’s reached a point where I just don’t want to even try, it just feels so pointless.
I guess I just want to know, like… is there hope? Can I get on medication? Can I enjoy myself without feeling like a burden? Is therapy really helpful? I’m scared that this is going to be the rest of my life, and I don’t know that I can deal with that, LOL
Edit: never had an orgasm, but it’s only started REALLY bothering me recently