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Originally Posted by Patagonia
Yes hurrah for the small ones too!
But I do remember being so foggy & out of touch with my body due to circumstances & a ton of meds that a small orgasm was really nice. It just felt like sexually I was being smothered by a massive blanket.
But now, being more mature in my sexuality & personally I think bec I'm off meds, I'm more in tune with my body & definitely more comfortable which has led me to more powerful orgasms.
But I can't say, for sure, it was all due to meds. I don't think that would be fair of me to say.
And I do agree with your comment about "risky sexual behavior" as reading more about being bipolar.
As a side note, when I was first diagnosed at 19yrs I was labeled bipolar, but it was due to the fact that I was really into adrenaline related activities, which was not the case at all being related to my MH. I think I was trying to enjoy my youth. That came to a quick stop tho.
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Yes, I do recall having a couple of maybe-orgasms when lethargically hospitalized. I only remember them now - at this moment - because I believed (wrongly, tragically) that I was ‘getting better.’ I was on Nardil at that time - the finest and most deadly AD ever produced. I didn’t begin talking or interacting with others but I felt a kind of temporary lift from the fog.
My 50-something female partners tell me that their orgasms are much different than they were when they were younger. Nancy, my primary partner, calls them ‘body shattering.’ For me, though, they are satisfying and that’s all that I can ask!
Gawd, I was sowing wild oats among continents at 19! I made the DSM-III cut from ‘manic depressive’ to ‘bipolar’ in 1985. I didn’t tell anyone, of course, of that or my other diagnoses. Not even my wife-to-be.
I’m not sure that sex is better now for having time to savour every moment; the frantic copulations of youth had an appeal! But it’s good. It is good.