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Mr Felix Economakis
Numan
How can some medication help with the psychological aspects of erectile dysfunction?
Felix Economakis advises that some erectile dysfunction medications can help with performance anxiety, as it can help them feel confident in their erection.
Transcript
How can some erectile dysfunction medication help with the psychological aspects of erectile dysfunction? It can do this in a number of ways. The first thing is when people are worried about performing, they're seeing everything going badly but if they believe I've got this erectile dysfunction medication, I can see I'm getting a good erection, I can see things going well. That's gonna help, not just with the medication but psychologically, as a placebo even, you've got a combined effect. Now, of course, after a persons had a few successes this way, we don't want them to become dependent on medication because that's not the plan. The idea is you've got a boost and then you can say This time I'm gonna try without the medication, see what happens. And now your body's back to believing it can do it and then you realise Oh, great, I've got that much needed boost but now I trust I body to do this again.