{"id":4598,"date":"2014-07-26T17:21:36","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T17:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mistermanpower.net\/blog\/?p=4598"},"modified":"2020-08-01T09:38:13","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T09:38:13","slug":"mental-erectile-dysfunction-reverse-the-negative-cycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mistermanpower.net\/blog\/mental-erectile-dysfunction-reverse-the-negative-cycle.php","title":{"rendered":"Mental Erectile Dysfunction: Reverse The Negative Cycle"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mental erectile dysfunction (also known as sexual performance anxiety or psychological ED) can set off a whole chain of events that is hard to stop, and even harder to reverse. While\u00a0mental erectile dysfunction is the main cause of erection issues in young men, it also effects men later on in life, for any number of reasons.<\/p>\n

It generally starts off like this…<\/p>\n

The majority of your post-pubescent life you’ve never had a problem getting an erection. Getting an erection is something you’ve never had to think about… it just happens. \u00a0You wake up with hard erections, you get random erections throughout the day, you get hard every time you’re going to masturbate, and you may have had a girlfriend or two already, and with them, you’ve never had problems getting an erection… usually the opposite… keeping it down.<\/p>\n

Then somewhere between 18 and 21 or so, give or take a year or two, you may begin a new relationship with someone. \u00a0This someone may be very attractive to you, and you may want to impress them. The last thing in the world is you want her to think that you’re bad in bed (and you don’t want to believe you’re bad in bed, of course… it’s a signal of manhood, right?).<\/p>\n

So then comes the sex. \u00a0You get an erection during foreplay with no problem, you greatly anticipate the moment of action, and then somewhere during foreplay (or when putting on the condom), you lose your erection… what the hell is this? \u00a0This has never happened before.<\/p>\n

And then you get all in your mind, rather than in the situation, and enjoying the sex. And this is when the mental erectile dysfunction kicks in…<\/h2>\n

You keep trying to “turn yourself back on”, with a big concentration on your penis, rather than what arouses you. \u00a0It’s too soft to put it in her, or if you do get it in, it feels like a tiny worm swimming in a smothering ocean… futile.<\/p>\n

After some time you most likely give up, head down in shame…<\/p>\n

You may try again \u2014 either that same day or on a later date \u2014 with the whole point to “test your erection”, and with this mentality, you will without a doubt not get an erection….<\/p>\n

…the beginning of the negative cycle of this mental ED.<\/p>\n

When you have mental erectile dysfunction you may feel a constant, or coming and going, depression, worry and low self-esteem<\/a>. You now feel a major pressure \u2014 almost a life duty \u2014 to prove to yourself and most likely her<\/em> that your erection works. \u00a0This removes the joy of sex, which is a prerequisite to getting hard… sex is supposed to be fun, not something where your entire self-worth is on the line.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately most things that guys hear when trying to solve this issue doesn’t help:<\/p>\n