Anne Truong MDMen's Sexual Health Doctor

Anxiety Makes ED Worse. How Stress Becomes Physical. #EDAnxiety #MentalHealth

15 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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YouTube video by Anne Truong MD (uploaded Dec 15, 2025) explaining research on erectile dysfunction (ED). Presents results from a comprehensive analysis of nearly 2,000 ED patients finding 86% had a primary physical (organic) cause and 14% purely psychogenic causes. Discusses how living with ED creates anxiety that functions as a physical stressor, worsening ED severity even among those with psychological origins.

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Nearly 2,000 patients

86% had a primary physical cause

14% were described as purely psychogenic causes

Anxiety acts as a physical stressor that makes ED worse; living with dysfunction causes anxiety which exacerbates severity.

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So here's what the research now clearly shows. In the comprehensive analysis of nearly 2000 ED patients, 86% had a primary physical cause causing the breakdown. 86% had primary physical cause that caused ED. Only 14% had purely psychogenic causes. And get this, even those men were pure psychological. ED often develop identical severity core scores to those men with organic ed. Why is this? Because when you live with dysfunction, anxiety become a physical stressor that makes the problem worse and.