As a therapist, my clients who are impacted by erectile dysfunction say that if they didn't
I was in a session with someone recently and they said that they wouldn't even recognise their life if they didn't have erectile dysfunction. It's clear in their voice how important erectile dysfunction is in their life and to relieve themself from erectile dysfunction. But not only this, there are impacts that erectile dysfunction has too.

It makes me glad that I do what I do and I'm passionate about supporting people who are affected by erectile dysfunction because I can really see how impactful it is to have erectile dysfunction and how it influences, it kind of extends into all the corners of a person's life.
I spoke in a podcast and blog recently how erectile erectile dysfunction can be really inconsistent and how some people might get an erection in some places or with some people, but then not others, which would really highlight that it's not something medical or something physical, like a barrier that's psychological and emotional.
Having an erection or not having an erection is so much more than just an erection and everything that that stands for, but it, it instead it stands for that closeness and those
connections in relationships, confidence, self esteem, that feeling that people are capable that they just "can". That's pretty key, hey!
In the therapy session, my client - who is not in a relationship - shared, "Lily, not having erectile dysfunction would completely change me life. And I know it!"
With erectile dysfunction, there's a sense that there's a limit, a barrier. Like, people might be living alongside others and chatting away, flirting away but then stop after a while because there's a worry about if the person they're talking to might want to something more, something more psychical.
My client shared that not having erectile dysfunction would make them stand up a bit taller,
make them feel able to go and speak to people and know that they might talk to somebody and know that that conversation could lead anywhere. It could lead to intimacy. It could lead to penetrative sex. It could do that. The potential is powerful.
I feel like that's a really significant thing. I really appreciate for people who are impacted by erectile dysfunction, having erectile dysfunction is a really, really important thing in life. Erectile dysfunction is certainly something I feel really, really passionate about.

Written by Lily Llewellyn
21st January 2025
Lily is a psychotherapist trained and educated in person-centred counselling to master's level and achieved an MA in anthropology. Her areas of interest include our relationships with ourselves and others.
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