Pleasure and frustration - mental training for your best piece

Pleasure arises in the mind.An essential factor to be aware of when attempting to treat erectile dysfunction with mechanical aids.

The origin of the erection

Arousal is initially induced from the outside. A stimulating sensory perception alerts you to a sexual stimulus. Your brain translates this perception into excitement and reports high alertness to the sexual organs via the nerve tracts. At the same time, the parasympathetic system kicks into action. The blood vessels widen, the erectile tissue can fill up. The blood accumulates in the penis, it becomes hard.

A failing system

A supposedly simple erection is thus characterized as a highly complex physical reaction. If it gets stuck at just one of the stations mentioned, the entire process can collapse. If it gets stuck right at the front and there is no impetus for the conduction of arousal through the pleasure center in the brain, we speak of a psychologically induced erectile dysfunction.

Mental disorders that can impede an erection

Stress

Under stress, the sympathetic nervous system takes over. The activating antagonist of the parasympathetic nervous system. The heart beats faster, the muscles tense, we are ready for anything, just not necessarily for the act of mating, thanks to the narrowed blood vessels.

Depression and mood swings

A change in the inner emotional world restricts one's own ability to experience and can sometimes disrupt or dampen a realistic transmission of stimuli.

Others mental illnesses

Since mental illnesses always influence the experience and often the contact to one's own self, they also affect the state of arousal. In addition, some psychotropic drugs inhibit libido and thus lead to secondary erection problems.

Blockages

In fact, however, no such conspicuous clinical symptoms have to be present. Sometimes even otherwise healthy people build up psychological blockages that have a negative effect on the ability of the penis to have an erection.

Disgust and dislike come into play here. fears and negative experiences. conflicts within the partnership. There may also be problems with self-esteem and increased pressure to perform. Factors that, taken by themselves, create stress again.

Why is the problem only getting worse?

Once such a blockage is present, those affected quickly find themselves in a downward spiral. The erection remains absent for the most part, and a negative experience sets in. The next attempt is accompanied by fear of failure - the negative experience is repeated to the point of avoidance. How does one manage to pull the ripcord in time in such cases?

Face the situation calmly

There is nothing to worry about if you occasionally fail to get an erection. Only if the situation remains unchanged for a longer period of time should investigations become necessary.

First of all, it makes sense to rule out physical causes. If the solution cannot be found here, mental training or psychotherapeutic support can be a good solution.

Psychotherapy 

If the causes are clearly of a psychological nature, the research into the causes continues in this area. If complex disorders are uncovered, the solution may already be to treat them. If the patient proves to be clinically healthy, a search is made for specific blockages.

A sex therapist can uncover blockages and dysfunctional behavior patterns. Together with the patient, he explores his fears and expectations using talk and behavioral therapy approaches and helps him to develop new thought patterns and to deal better with alleged stress and problem situations.

Medication

 The patient gets the chance to experience success and, with a bit of luck, can take a step out of the symptom spiral.

Self help

Do something good for yourself and maintain a healthy lifestyle. Body and mind relax and strengthen depending on each other. Healthy nutrition, sport and meditation help to achieve a connection between the two components that conveys security and enables an attitude that allows you to accept yourself as completely sufficient beyond external performance factors.

The profitable use of mental exercises

Mental training methods are a very effective way of countering psychologically caused erectile dysfunction. This refers to techniques that take you mentally out of the everyday merry-go-round of thoughts through regular training sequences and center you through rest and relaxation.

Measures such as autogenic training sequences or progressive muscle relaxation are not very complex and work with concrete instructions that keep your thoughts in the here and now.Advanced people resort to meditation practices, which, however, require significantly more concentration.

All of these techniques will take you out of your deadlocked train of thought for a moment and allow you to see from the outside. You learn to let go of tension and to fully engage with the situation at hand. Exactly what it takes to open up in sexual interaction.