Laura Delano
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735 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard 12 Jun
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I think the loss that I grieved the most was the fact that I had no sexuality through my teens and 20s, no ability to have an orgasm, no...
you know, sensory activation really of any kind.
And thank God I got that back.
A lot of people haven't been so lucky and PSSD, post SSRI sexual dysfunction is a serious issue.
I think I grieved that more than anything because who we are as sexual beings is about so much more than
It's about your creativity and your friendships and your appreciation of beauty.
So grief, I think, is perhaps the most important emotion to reckon with when you're trying to leave behind psych meds and diagnoses and all of it.
And it brings anger with it and it brings shock and denial, like the whole thing.
Now I wouldn't change, when I look back, I wouldn't change a minute of it because it's given me my life's purpose and it's filled my life with such joy and meaning because I know intimately what a life not worth living feels like.
But it took me a while to get to that place.
Yeah.
Her name's Lauren Friedman, and my organization, Intercompass Initiative, helped organize that summit.
It's the May 4th, 2026 summit that you're referring to.
That testimony was so powerful.
I get teary just thinking about seeing her up there on that stage.
It took so much courage to put herself out there in such a vulnerable way.
And I think the community of PSSD people are...
just so steadfast in getting the word out about about this and in trying to make changes happen you know starting with updating drug labels to even warn that this is a thing which literally right now there are no warnings about it on American drug labels there are in other countries it's such a profound betrayal of what it means to be human to have this taken from you and I think it happens to far more people I think a lot of people don't even realize that their lack of desire to
You know, that's a symptom of depression, for example.
So a lot of people just don't even link the dots.
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