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Which
Came First – The Performance Anxiety or the Premature Ejaculation?
Performance anxiety over sex
can be a hard thing to overcome. It ranges anywhere from a little
case of the jitters to being completely afraid of sex. Couple that
with a premature ejaculation problem and you’re just asking
to be celibate! Although anxiety is usually associated with psychological
factors, they can ultimately have very real physical effects. And
sometimes, it’s the physical problems like PE that turn into
psychological trauma. Whichever your case may be, realize that there
are usually a multitude of both mental AND bodily elements you need
to find and conquer.
Let’s Get Physical!
Performance anxiety and premature ejaculation have generally been
believed to be something of the mind. “It’s all in your
head,” people will say. But since the 1980s, we are discovering
that perhaps 80% of erectile dysfunctions begin with physical causes.
These could be from health problems (such as diabetes, hyperthyroidism,
etc.), surgical trauma, an accident, neurological
problems, drug or alcohol abuse, a side effect from medication,
or over masturbation. By not acknowledging
a physical aspect, you might never cure your problem.
One reason for performance anxiety may stem from premature ejaculation.
Because you realize you may not last long enough in the sheets,
you agitate yourself into a frenzy. This extra worry will not only
make your PE problem worse, but will lead into other erectile dysfunctions.
If your performance anxiety came first, then your resulting PE may
only be a pit stop on your road to impotence. By far the most common
problem with performance anxiety is not being able to raise the
flag.
When you get nervous or scared, your body goes into what’s
known as a “fight or flight” involuntary response. Your
body will either gear itself up to deal with the situation or it
prepares to hightail it out of there. In this mode, your body produces
more adrenaline, increases heart rate, and constricts the blood
vessels of less vital areas, such as genitalia, in order to provide
more blood to areas crucial to immediate survival, like the heart,
lungs, and skeletal muscles.
This primitive instinct is what helped our ancestors kill the saber-toothed
tiger or to keep from becoming a doormat for a charging woolly mammoth.
However, it goes completely against what we need for sex. The hormones
and blood flow needed by your penis to not only erect itself but
to control the point of ejaculation is being diverted to somewhere
else.
Also, with the increased heart rate and constricted vessels, your
blood pressure will rise dramatically. There are several problems
related to high blood pressure
(hypertension) that can affect your body and be the cause for your
premature ejaculation.
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