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Originally Posted by mike1127
If you are addressing your comments to me, yes I want to like sex and have a pretty healthy sex drive, I think, but the only outlet is masturbation. I think the issue is my attitude toward relationships.. I like being alone a lot, for the freedom.. also makes it easier to work on my own issues in therapy, being alone. And being with somebody scares the dickens out of me, probably because my early experience of being bonded with my mother was traumatic. (She was very depressed and anxious, is what I think.)
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Mike,
I think you need to dig further. Lots of people have/had moms who are/were depressed and anxious. Depression and anxiety are so commonplace that they are almost a new norm - I see people revealing their D&A in a nonchalant way (the same is NOT true of schizophrenia!)
IN 2011, almost 10% of new disability claims received by SSDI in 2011 were for mental health (I have not found the breakdown, but am positive that a big chunk of that number is due to depression). The stats are from Council for Disability Awareness, Long-Term Disability Claims Review, 2012.
So when depression and anxiety are SO common (==> many people have been brought up by mothers who suffered from D&A), and yet your issue is UNCOMMON, you need to dig deeper.
It probably is a contributing factor, but is unlikely to be the only factor.