Physical and Emotional Causes

     In most cases, men are experiencing a range of controversial and often negative emotions, no matter if erectile dysfunction is caused by physiological or psychological factors. For the purpose of determining the treatment strategy man should be totally examined by the doctor and the factors which had cause erectile dysfunction have to be fixed.
     It is evident that erectile dysfunction should not be a part of getting older. Surely the older man becomes the more intense and long sexual stimulation he needs for erection to occur, but older men still are able to have active sexual life and experience multiple ejaculations and orgasms.
     We can mark out some main physical causes of erectile dysfunction.
     Physical causes of erectile dysfunction:
     • Alcohol and tobacco use
     • Fatigue
     • Brain or spinal-cord injuries
     • Hypogonadism (which leads to lower testosterone levels)
     • Liver or kidney failure
     • Multiple sclerosis
     • Parkinson’s disease
     • Radiation therapy to the testicles
     • Stroke
     • Some types of prostate or bladder surgery
     • Diabetes (high blood sugar)
     • Hypertension (high blood pressure)
     • Atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries)
     It goes without saying that person’s physical health often depends on the mental one. Erectile dysfunction is not an exception to the rule and in same cases men are faced with erectile dysfunction when having problems with sexual partner or being under any other kind of stress.
     Emotional causes of erectile dysfunction:
     • Feeling nervous about sex, perhaps because of bad experience or because of a previous episode of having no erection
     • Feeling stressed, including stress from work or family situations
     • Being troubled by problems in relationships with current sexual partner
     • Feeling too self-conscious to enjoy sex
     • Doubting the ability to satisfy sexual partner completely