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Sex and Depression Archive

07 November 2014

Taking on Sexual Side Effects with Kinkly.com

Have you ever seen the lists of possible side effects for anti-depressants? They are pretty long and, what I’ve always found interesting is that they are fairly detailed, naming very

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01 October 2014

Let’s Talk About Sex And Depression, Really (Survey)

Update: The survey is closed to responses. Thank you to all who participated- the response was overwhelming and far beyond what I had even hoped for. If you volunteered to

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17 September 2014

Sex When You’re Depressed- Don’t “Just Do It”

I’ve been so excited to see more mainstream conversations about depression happening lately. I’ve even been seeing more folks talking about how depression affects sexuality, which is amazing! However there is

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13 August 2014

The Death of Robin Williams, Why I Talk About Depression And What Comes Next

Since Robin Williams died on Monday I have written and scrapped three separate pieces inspired by his death. None of them quite felt right. Everything felt a bit forced. Here’s

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20 July 2014

Talking About Sex & Depression

A topic of great importance to me is depression and the impact it has on sexuality. I’ve been doing a ton of research lately (I’m working on something… we’ll talk

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01 May 2014

5 Ways to Stay Sex Positive When You’re Dealing With Depression

I’ve been having a hard time writing these last couple of weeks. New insurance led to a switch in which particular generic form of my antidepressant I received and lo

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12 November 2013

Talking About Sex & Depression with Kinkly.com

This week over on Kinkly.com I’m talking about a subject very near to my heart- depression. It is a condition that, according to the CDC affects 1 in 10 adults

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09 November 2012

The time Celexa ate my brain: How 9 days on 1 drug screwed with my mind, job and sex

Look through my posts from last week. Go ahead, I’ll wait. Notice anything? I’ll help you out- I didn’t say squat last week. I re-posted an old piece and ran

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About JoEllen

JoEllen Notte is a writer, speaker, and mental health advocate whose work explores the impact of depression on sex and relationships. Since 2012 she has written about sex, mental health, and how none of us are broken here at The Redhead Bedhead.

JoEllen has led workshops nationwide on sexual communication, navigating consent, having casual sex kindly, and dating as an introvert. She has toured sex shops, spoken at length on dildos, and even started a sex school but she is happiest and most effective when writing and speaking on behalf of quiet people who have sex. Check out her video series on attending conferences as an introvert and her extensive writing on sex and depression.

JoEllen has spoken at Clark College, University of Chicago, University of Tennessee, the Guelph Sexuality Conference, Woodhull’s Sexual Freedom Summit, and the Playground Conference

JoEllen’s first book The Monster Under the Bed: Sex, Depression & The Conversation We Aren’t Having was published by Thorntree Press in March 2020. Her new book In It Together: Navigating Depression with Partners, Friends, and Family was published by Thornapple Press in March 2023.

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