Psychological Causes of Erectile Dysfunction and Lifestyle

Erectile dysfunction is not the disease that is caused by an immediate action. There are cases like surgery and traumas that can affect your ability to gain erection but impotence is more likely to develop as a result of everyday regular actions that seem to be harmless to health but repeated several times cause severe damage and lead to malfunction.

Erectile dysfunction may be caused by physical factors but psychological health determines your sexual performance no less that physical health does.
Any psychological disbalance or stressful situation may result in unsatisfactory sexual relationships, reduce or diminish your ability to have successful orgasm, ejaculation or erection.

The most common psychological factors of impotence are:
Stress at work
Conflicts with your partner

If you have troubles at work you are likely to be nervous and thus unable to concentrate on sexual intercourse and relax yourself. Stress at work often interferes with sexual relationships but stays unnoticed as you do not realize that nervousness means an overwrought state and nervous system is involved. At the same time nervous system plays an important role in performing an erection. To get aroused the male relies on the proper work of nervous system and the sensitivity of nervous endings.

Conflicts with partners are a common hassle that spoils the sexual intercourse. When you can’t come to agreement and have argues about who is cooking and who is doing the laundry today you may encounter misunderstanding in bed. Regular disputes develop the desire to contradict constantly and usually only the dominant partner gets orgasm and satisfaction from the sexual intercourse.

Your psychological well-being generally depends on how happy you feel. Felling anxious, guilty, depressed the male may not be able to get relaxed and switch from everyday troubles to sexual intercourse.

Your everyday life has a reflection on your sexual life as well. The most typical things that damage your potency are smoking and alcohol abuse. Alcohol addiction is the underlying cause of a disease called brewer’s droop when you are unable to get and keep erection. Alcohol damages the gland that releases the hormone testosterone.

Active life style is important to maintain proper blood circulation and healthy vascular system.