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Smoking and alcohol can cause ED. He said: “Alcohol increases sexual desire but decreases a man’s perform­ance.”

Prolonged bicycling -­which puts pressure on a vital artery and nerve near the genitals can also cause the condition. ED can either have mental or physical causes. Pug said that if the patient has normal morning erections, the ED is likely to be psychogenic, or mental, in nature. However, if a man’s morn­ing erections are poor, his erectile problems are prob­ably due to a physical cause. A patient with ED concerns consulting a doctor should expect to discuss his medi­cal history and go through a physical examination, includ­ing a urine test. Png said that properly prescribed medications such as sildenafil (Viagra) and tadalafil (Cialis) can have an 80 to 90 percent successful response rate with relatively minimal side effects. He discourages the use of alternative medicines that claim to boost male virility, especially if they are not from a reputable source.

He said: “These alternative medicines are not worth the risk when ED can be easily sorted out with a visit to the doctor.”

As sexual virility is associated with manliness, problems with erections understand­ably upset men. Erectile dysfunction (ED), also called impotence, is characterized by a man’s inability to have an erection hard enough to have sex or to keep an erection long enough to finish sexual intercourse.

However, one of the most important factors concern­ing a man’s erection is in the mind. Dr Damian Png, consultant urologist at Singapore’s MD Specialist Healthcare, said: “The brain is the biggest sex organ.

He explained that the brain processes all senses such as the tactile feel of skin or silk, the scent of perfume, melody of music and suggestive sen­sual visual stimuli.

These signals are then sent down the spinal cord and via nerves to the penis, which fills up with blood as a result of blood vessels opening up on stimulation. The penis gets rigid and becomes erect.

An erection thus requires the interaction of a man’s brain, nerves, hormones and blood vessels. Png said common causes of ED include problems related to blood vessels and nerves, such as diabetes, decreased male hormones due to aging and painful intercourse due to a crooked penis. He said that some medica­tion, such as antidepressants and those for blood pres­sure or prostate enlargement conditions, could also cause impotency problems.

It is a disease that affects thinking, mood to your body. There are several types of depressive disorders such as dysthymia, mania and depression, which have different symptoms of each case.

There is a reason for that, but maybe you are experiencing symptoms of depression.

I do not think that depression is a mental disorder or a depressive disorder. If the case is severe, can have a significant risk of committing suicide, the main reason why you should be aware of symptoms of depression is the last.

Before seeking professional help, you must make sure that depression is, in fact, is to have. Depression can be caused by many different factors, here is a list of known causes:

1 .- Stress is a cause of depression. Stress can make your nervous system and drain your body the necessary nutrients for the nervous system to function properly.

2 .- Another cause is physical illness. Once you have Parkinson’s, perhaps, stroke and hypertension, for example, you can develop a depression. Be affected by a disease that gives the feeling of insecurity and the inability

3 .- The unhealthy lifestyle can lead to depression. If no regular exercise, you have too much alcohol or stimulants such as coffee and take too much sugar and fat in your diet, then you can expect as well as to develop a depression.

Avoiding these causes will increase their chances of avoiding depression. But if you think you or your friend or family member has a serious case of depression and seeking professional help is the best resource.

To speak with a specialist may be the best thing to do if we talk about depression, he / she will, without doubt.