A Florida woman who told a newspaper of her 16 year struggle with Persistent Genital Arousal Disorder is dead-she has taken her own life.
Gretchen Molannen shared her daily struggles with Tampa Bay Times last week which appeared on both in print and video. She told the newspaper that she considered suicide all the time because of her condition.
She said “I had no idea that other people were going through this. I wish I could have told my mom”.
Molannen was found dead at her home in Florida. But the details how she died were not known immediately.
In March she attempted to take her life by breathing in carbon monoxide and three weeks later she tried again by slitting her wrists.
The first case was medically documented 2001 by an American psychologist Sandra Leiblum. The disorder makes a woman feels sexually stimulated but not psychologically. According to experts there is cure neither do they records how many women are suffering from the debilitating condition.
It is learnt some women seek temporary relief by masturbating, but according to experts this may cause a nerve dysfunction.
Molannen called the disorder a “beast”.
She also sought her boyfriend’s help to pay the property taxes for the home she inherited from her parents when they died. She said it’s uncomfortable to be intimate with someone. Doctors trying to take away the pain and suffering prescribed her icepacks and cold compresses.
She said “I can’t even stop to get water, the pain is so much”.
After the Tampa Bay Times ran her story several have come forward to help women who are said to be suffering from same disorder. And several social organizations are demanding the Social Security Administration to declare the disorder as disability to facilitate medical attention
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