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monkeyman

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Mental Erectile Problems
Posted: 01-15-06 10:38am

Greetings,
i have read through a lot of the posts concerning ed found on this board and the vast majority of them concern treatments for a possible physical problem down there. I am about as sure as I can be however that my problem is entirely in my head and I don't really know how to fix it.

It started when I was 17 and has gotten worse since then (i am 23 now). The problem started with me getting worried about losing my erection because it happened once during sex and has since snow balled. Now at 23 I am having incredibly difficulty maintaining it during sex (even though I can manage to get a very strong one for a bit). I get into a mental cycle where I worry about it and then try to stop myself from worrying, etc. And that causes it to go down and I am almost never able to get it back up in that session.

The problem is worst during sex but is starting to creep into when I masturbate too...It gets to the point sometimes where I feel almost a tightness in my chest from the stress.

I know people would suggest not thinking about it but I have tried and that doesn't work. How do I break this mental cycle? How do I learn to be able to think during sex and not lose my erection? This is driving me and my partner crazy and I don't know what to do, please help.
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pleonastic

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Posted: 01-15-06 14:56pm

Its just an idea and im not a professional or anything, but maybe you can focus on your partner and just forget about yourself. Like try and draw all of your attention away from the strength of your errection, and just get as much into doing her as you can. Relaxing can be hard after that kind of ordeal, I had one when I was 16 the same thing but I was realy drunk, and got right back on the horse days later and they were pretty understanding I guess. You will fix whatever problems youre having , so good luck
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cd998776

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Posted: 01-15-06 16:32pm

Good advice, being in arroused mental state will help alot. Try to reduce stress at all cost (worrying about it). Are you on any medication, uynder any stress, what's your diet like, do you exercise, do you smoke, do drugs, or drink?
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hemostatic_electricity

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Posted: 02-23-06 15:34pm

I had the same problem for a while. I don't really know what I did to get over it, but I did. It really helps if you have an understand wife/girlfriend. When it would happen to me my girlfriend would tell me that it was ok and then she'd go down on me until I relaxed enough to get hard again.

Mental blocks can be the worst type of problems to have to work through because they're self propogating. I know it sound cliche, but just don't think about it.
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