Bipolar 1 with psychotic features &amp; (previous?) rapid cycling here, not sure how to word it all I’m terrible with this stuff. 

Im a 28yo male with a long term partner, after about a full on 3 month manic episode I’ve finally been bought back down to earth. Treatment team put me on Olanzapine 20mg on top of my existing lithium &amp; valproate dose. It’s stopped the psychosis dead in its tracks and been probably the best thing that’s ever happened to me medication wise… problem is it’s also killed my sex dive.

It’s been probably a month now and nothing has happened either together or alone, I’ve got no interest in sex or masturbation, and even if I could manage to get a bit of it going mentally I don’t work physically well at all. Of course none of it is due to my partner, but I know how she feels (also ironically was stuck in the same situation myself before we met) and how terrible it’d be for her.

Anyway, have any of you been in this same situation? How did you get through it? If olanzapine also bought it on for you did you manage to beat the problem and stay on the medication? Thanks heaps and sorry for the wall of text!