Causes of Psychological ED?

All erections essentially begin in the mind. For example, just a touch or thought sends signals to the brain. Subsequently. the brain sends nerve signals which increases the blood flow to the penis. As result, the penis gets erect. First, you must rule out physiological causes. At Simply Men’s Health, our experienced physicians perform a number of tests to find the root cause of your erectile dysfunction. Finally, after ruling out a physical cause, the root cause is determined to be psychological The following are the most common psychological causes of erectile dysfunction:

STRESS and ANXIETY

One of the leading psychological causes of bedroom problems is life stressors. For example, financial concerns, relationship issues can quickly take your head out of the game. As a result, your brain doesn’t send the signals to trigger an erection. Then, this failure to perform due to stress causes anxiety. This anxiety causes more stress causing vicious cycle. In the same way, physiological ED also causes anxiety. Consequently, this worsens the condition.

PERFORMANCE ANXIETY

From time to time, men experience an isolated failure to perform. But, in some cases, one or two bad experiences can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Just thinking about the failure causes anxiety. As a result, the mind plays tricks and causes performance anxiety leading to psychological ED. Performance anxiety can also result form the condition called Premature Ejaculation (PE). Although, this often is a life-time problem beginning in one’s teens, it can also develop later in life. So if you have experienced PE, ejaculating too early, in the past, this can add to performance anxiety.

RELATIONSHIP PROBLEMS

Relationships are very complex and maintaining a healthy relationship takes work. Consequently, relationship stress can spill over into the bedroom affecting your sex life. So just as ED can cause problems in a relationship; similarly, problems in a relationship can be the root cause of psychological ED.

DEPRESSION

Depression is more than just feeling sad. Actually, depression can be an overwhelming feeling that weights you down in both body and mind. Moreover, depression not only causes psychological symptoms, but can result in physical disease as well. Therefore, as a result of depression you can not only lose your sexual desire, but you may not be able to perform as well

GUILT and LOW SELF ESTEEM

Feelings of guilt, whether from inability to please partner or relationship issues, can psychologically affect erections. In addition, guilt is often associated with feelings of low self-esteem, which also linked with depression. Thus, guilt, depression and low self-esteem interact and cause psychological erectile dysfunction.

PORNOGRAPHY ADDICTIONS

You may be surprised to learn that too much pornography can commonly lead to psychological ED. To explain, watching too much porn can set up unrealistic expectations. As a result, your brain gets conditioned to a certain level to achieve arousal which is not realistic.