I just read this article on here about SSRIs and developing teenage/young adult sexuality and it was like a lightbulb going off in my head, that "ah ha!" moment I've been searching for. I've always had a pretty low/nonexistent sex drive (which drives me crazy), and I haven't been sexually active in close to a decade. I'm in my mid 20s and have developed a lot of anxiety about participating in sexual activities with my (relative to my age) lack of experience. I never understood why I may have this low libido, as many of the women in my family have high levels of testosterone, which I know generally correlates with a higher sex drive (although no one in my family talks about sex at all, so I can't nor want to compare sex drives). I suspect I have high testosterone as well for several reasons, but this low sex drive thing never made sense.

After reading this, I couldn't believe I had never thought about SSRIs being the cause. I had been on Paxil from the time I was 12 until I was 19, basically the entire time my sexuality was forming. Having little to no desire during that time may have caused me to not really develop a sex drive at all. If this is the case, is there anything that could be done to reverse the effects? Could this even be a realistic explanation?