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busterbrown

(8,515 posts) Thu Dec 6, 2012, 05:43 PM Dec 2012

How sad is this? Talk about helplessness.......

My feelings are that men who suffer from the same thing,
act out and usually end up in prison. Too much shame for a woman....
Just an uneducated opinion....

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/12/06/florida-woman-with-sexual-arousal-disorder-commits-suicide/

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How sad is this? Talk about helplessness....... (Original Post) busterbrown Dec 2012 OP

It's true that so many who end up in prison suffer from mental illness or LiberalLoner Dec 2012 #1

I wonder if she tried anti-depressants. For once that libido-killing side effect might have been Dark n Stormy Knight Dec 2012 #2

LiberalLoner

(9,762 posts)

1. It's true that so many who end up in prison suffer from mental illness or

Reply to busterbrown (Original post)

Thu Dec 6, 2012, 06:02 PM

Dec 2012

Substance abuse or both. I'm not sure what the numbers are for this disorder or how common it is but I think there are so often underlying factors for people sent to prison that we don't take care of very well as a society. I think our incarceration rate is far too high.

Dark n Stormy Knight

(9,766 posts)

2. I wonder if she tried anti-depressants. For once that libido-killing side effect might have been