# Abilities you seem tto have suddenly lost. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 16, 2016, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abilities-you-seem-tto-have-suddenly-lost/760064 "2016-07-16T18:22:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 10
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2016, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abilities-you-seem-tto-have-suddenly-lost/760064/10 "2016-07-16T23:18:42Z")
> [@HoneyBadgerDC](#): > > Not sure what you would consider sudden. Over the past couple of years I find my self struggling more and more with vocabulary words that I understand when I read but can’t recall to use them when I am writing. My speaking vocabulary is suffering terribly as I get older. I’ll know there’s a word I want, but it just won’t come to me. My writing vocabulary isn’t suffering much from this, although I often do have to pause to dredge for the word I want. Usually I get it within ten seconds. But in speaking, the word just won’t come to me at all. Irritating. My doctor tried me on Paxil, and I lost my sexual functionality, almost completely. Totally nixed my ability to attain sexual completion. Paxil wasn’t helping my other problems, so he took me off it again. I had a nice one-person orgy to celebrate. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abilities-you-seem-tto-have-suddenly-lost/760064)._