Mission Statement

Our mission is to:

• achieve official recognition in Canada of Post SSRI/SNRI Sexual Dysfunction

• achieve research into causes, risk factors, prevalence and treatment

• provide community support for people suffering from PSSD

• raise awareness among doctors and patients on the short-term and long-term sexual impacts of antidepressants

• hold psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry to higher standards of transparency regarding long-term effects and risks of antidepressants

We are not anti-psychiatry or anti-medication, rather we are pro-research and for increasing transparency and dialogue. The long-term negative impacts of antidepressant medications are real and are frequently ignored in favour of amplifying the voices of those who have found them beneficial. We acknowledge that some people have found antidepressants helpful, even life-saving, and their stories are important. We do not seek to speak over the voices of anyone who has achieved positive results from psychiatric medication, but we believe the public conversation has been increasingly one-sided in favour of medication, and that the voices of those harmed are being sidelined. There needs to be more discussion of the risks of medicating mental health issues and the possibility of developing long-term sexual, emotional and cognitive dysfunction from exposure to antidepressants. We believe in informed consent, and when vital information is absent from the conversation this is impossible to grant.