What psychological factors may cause erectile dysfunction?

Erectile dysfunction is very common among men. There are many reasons that may cause erectile dysfunction in men during sex. Therefore, it is not ruled out that erectile dysfunction is caused by some psychological factors. Because many psychological factors may affect the quality of men's sex life, thus leading to some sexual dysfunction, what psychological factors may cause erectile dysfunction?

1. Disharmony in the relationship between husband and wife is a very important cause of the disease, which also accounts for a large proportion of the causes of the disease. Excessive work and life pressure, tension, fatigue, or dissatisfaction with work or environment may also cause erectile dysfunction in male friends. Some men gradually develop negative emotions such as anxiety, depression, and guilt because they worry that their penis is too small, and then the lack of self-confidence leads to the occurrence of the disease. Lack of correct sexual knowledge, or parents' strict requirements on sexual issues at home, may also cause male friends to have psychological contradictions and erectile dysfunction in future sexual life.

2. The main causes of psychological erectile dysfunction include anxiety, depression, tension, marital discord or lack of attractiveness of the spouse, sexual repression, sexual disharmony, bad sexual preferences in childhood, and concerns about pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. In addition, in clinical work, we often encounter some patients who blame themselves for their habit of masturbation, mistakenly believing that long-term masturbation will inevitably lead to erectile dysfunction. The erectile dysfunction of such patients is mostly psychological.

3. The treatment of psychological erectile dysfunction should be based on the specific cause, the doctor's experience, and the wishes of the patient and his spouse. Psychological therapy is an indispensable and important part of the treatment, including sexual knowledge education, psychological counseling, and sex therapy. In addition, other treatment methods such as drug therapy, penile corpus cavernosum injection therapy, and vacuum negative pressure aspiration should be used when necessary. At present, the more consistent view is that psychological therapy and oral drug therapy are the first-line treatments for psychological erectile dysfunction, and penile corpus cavernosum injection and vacuum negative pressure aspiration are the second-line treatments.