Stress: How Big of a Part does it play?

🍆 Erection issues
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Hey lads,

I’m wondering, how big does stress feed into ED, and any improvement “post-stress”in your experience?

I’ve recently moved country (around the world!), am on a big-stakes job search, securing a place to live, and living off of a less-than-comfortable :dollar: savings level, and in a new relationship with a partner there is mutual love with (when knowing I have a history with ED, but we have had sex before).

So yeah, I guess you could say there’s stress in my life. I’m really hoping that getting it up will naturally become easier once all this smooths over (finding a job, being settled in my new place, earning a decent income again).

I’m doing the work (mojo, meditation, communicating with my partner) but just wondering - does the easing/relief of outside stress on its own help with ED? Or is it always an uphill battle to manage stress?

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I find it really helpful to work with a psycho therapist. And recently am talking with a sex therapist for my performance anxiety. Yes, stress can be a BIG part of it …

You don’t have to wait for having resolved all of your worries in order to enjoy sex. But you do have to check all of that at the door when wanting to be intimate with your partner,otherwise you’re inviting all of these issues in. We have to allow ourselves what seems selfish and procrastinating in the face of putting our life together in the midst of such a stressful situation in order to allow ourselves the space to enjoy with our partner and have fun, for a brief respite from the stresses that wait for us outside the bedroom door.