You have a meeting you need to plan. You have a quote you need to hit by the end of next week, and your numbers aren’t even close. The boss is expecting big things out of you, and you don’t know if you can deliver on his expectations. When you’ve got a full plate like this, it can cause work to become stressful. And while you may try to leave your work problems at work, as this stress continues to grow, it can spill into your personal life and may ultimately affect you in the bedroom.
When you have a head full of stress, it can often feel downright impossible to focus your mind on anything that isn’t related to your stressors. Sure, you may engage in other activities and manage to focus on other things at times, but it always feels like this stress is lurking in the back of your mind. When you bring that stress between the sheets, your brain may struggle to deal with sexual factors, causing these feelings to get lost in the ether and ultimately go unprocessed.
Your erection depends upon signals from your brain for when its time to get to work. When your penis is sending sexual cues to your brain, but your brain is focused on stress instead of the situation at hand, these signals do not get properly sorted and your penis never gets the go ahead, leading to missed erections, which can eventually snowball into full blown erectile dysfunction.
So yes, if work has been particularly stressful, it is very possible that your brain can’t properly focus on sex, leading to erectile issues. Thankfully, getting over stress-induced ED is quite simple: Figure out ways to cope with the stress. Either come up with plans on your own, or work with a psychologist, and you should work out ways to cope with workplace stress. Once you’ve gotten your stress sorted, your brain can get back to focusing on the bedroom and your erection should be back to normal.