Low Libido Causes

There are a few different reasons one may be suffering from low libido. The first cause could be physical. Physical low libido causes are easier to change than psychological or emotional reasons. Therefore, you should seek medical evaluation from your family physician. He or she can diagnose whether it is from a side effect from a prescription medication, hormone change in your body or other problem. Your physician can help you recover from having a low libido.

If your physician rules out physical causes for a low libido than it is most likely psychological or emotional. Low libido causes include:

Anxiety about sex
Depression
Self image
Frustration regarding your relationship with your partner
Fatigue

You may want to try to take a notebook and jot down your day and evening to see how you are feeling at certain times of a twenty-four hour period. Do this for about four or five days. You may find yourself upset about certain things your partner does that irritates you. If one is not happy with his or her partner, it will change your feeling about wanting to be intimate with him or her. It is very difficult to share your body and mind with a partner when you are upset.

Maybe your notes will reveal how you feel about your self-image. If you feel uncomfortable, perhaps overweight, the last thing you want to do is get undressed in front of your partner. You may feel self-conscious and that makes it difficult for one to get “into the mood.” On the other hand, maybe you feel bad about yourself and you do not think you are worthy of being with your partner.

Another low libido cause is feeling depressed which can make a person not want to do many activities he or she once enjoyed which includes sex.

One can also experience anxiety about sex. Worrying what the other person is thinking about you, if you are doing things that please your partner, etc. Open communication is very important and can help you. One may simply have anxiety thus making it very difficult to concentrate and focus on sex with his/her partner. Anxiety causes one to have many things going on in his/her brain and sex can be one of the last things to think about.

Constantly feeling fatigued is another low libido cause. When one is so overtired from his or her day, he/she may want to simply fall asleep to get some much-needed rest. Being overtired makes getting “in the mood” much harder as one may feel it is too much work.

Summary of Low Libido Causes

There are a number of reasons for low libido causes. Your physician can diagnose whether you have physical, psychological or emotional issues and treat you from that point on.