IN-DEPTH: Victims Who Became ‘Asexual’ After Anti-Depressants Claim UK Authorities Are Ignoring Them

A bottle of Effexor antidepressant pills in Miami, Fla., on March 23, 2004. Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Thousands of people in the UK could have been made “functionally asexual” by antidepressant medication with symptoms that last far beyond treatment, but campaigners claim their experiences are being ignored by authorities.

Thousands of people around the world and the UK could be suffering from what is called post-SSRI sexual dysfunction (PSSD), a condition that is brought on by taking antidepressants known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs).