Welcome to “The PSSD Lab”
This site is dedicated to the advancement of knowledge, awareness, and treatment of Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD). It is based on the following principles:
- Science is not something that is done alone. People work together. This site is meant to be a collaboration between doctors, researchers, and PSSD sufferers.
- I don’t have the time to solve PSSD alone (unless I get lucky, or study it for a long time). I’ve worked hard to research, but my time is limited. Placing the knowledge that I have gained over the past 3.5 years in an easy to consume format will speed up the process of getting sufferers and professionals up to speed quickly.
- There is so much knowledge that we could use, and we need people to compile it.
- The PSSD effort needs more organization and fundraising to raise awareness in the scientific community.
- Create a yearly PSSD publication to share advances in our understanding.
Where am I going with this?
People have asked me how they can help me do research. My best answer would be that we need to work together. Scientists rarely work alone, and a lab is a bustling place with a lot of people throwing around ideas. I have this fear that our efforts aren’t organized enough.
Without large grants, we can’t do everything that a university research lab does, but I think that creating a small community of those interested in PSSD research would help our cause. We need more self-written papers and theories from sufferers and researchers around the globe.
I’ve created a video that should give everyone an overview of basic neuroscience and PSSD theory in under 30 minutes: far under the time of one lecture. That is the starting point of the lab.
How you can help:
The following are areas that I see as holes in the PSSD effort. I am looking for motivated people who are interested in collaborating to make the effort to eliminate PSSD a success.
- Something that takes an overview of all of our knowledge and lays it out so people from the street can understand it. (This objective is in progress, and a list of PSSD Resources has been started).
- I’m looking for undergraduate, graduate, or post-graduate students interesting in publications regarding PSSD. I will provide full assistance to interested parties.
- I also have all the data that I collected from people over the summer of 2016. I’d obviously keep data anonymous, but I’m looking for someone who is good with math that could help me do statistics on it. Additionally, is there anyone interested in taking this data and turning it into a paper?
- Does anyone have a list of chemicals/ drugs that they are interested in? Would they want to write a paper explaining how they could help PSSD? (This objective is also in progress, with pages on What We’ve Tried, and Possible Treatments being started).
In memoriam:
This website is dedicated to our friend, Ali. Kind to all, and missed by many.
RIP, Petar (3/27/19)
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