The other day, I asked whether I should start seeing a psychosomatic medicine specialist because I was mentally exhausted from the heavy workload and the weight of my responsibilities after my company began recruiting for voluntary early retirement.

Even though they had the academic ability to get hired by a major cosmetics company that’s laying off 1,500 employees, I wonder if they don’t even know how to use a search engine. There really is plenty to pick apart, though. As Taro said, you’d be better off saving it for implants. Three of my back teeth suddenly gave out after I turned 50, and I’m having a tough time now, lol. Apparently, teeth only last until around age 50.

So you’re going from internal medicine to psychosomatic medicine? This is starting to feel like a role-playing game（笑）. I hope you’re able to get your medication without any trouble. “Tsuri” is internet slang. If you search for “釣り 意味,” you’ll only get the ordinary meaning, so in cases like this, adding “2ch” to the search—“釣り 意味 2ch”—will give you the answer you’re looking for. I think physical libido weakens with age, but psychological libido may be unrelated. People who take ED medication just to have sex are generally driven by the latter. I wonder whether insisting on a second round is really about libido. Maybe they feel they have to go for a second round for some other reason. They could be calculating the allowance per round and feel they need to make the numbers work, or there could be some factor unrelated to pure sexual desire. If you search for “希望退職 1500人” (“voluntary retirement 1,500 employees”), a certain famous company comes up—is that okay? The timing is a perfect match, too（笑）. That said, I basically assume this is a bait question dressed up with plausible, fact-based details to make it seem believable(^^). I’m not sure how much qualifications really help when changing careers in your 40s. Rather than getting braces after 40, wouldn’t it be better to save the money for implants? I have various thoughts like that, but I’m taking it as part of the colorful charm of bait questions. Calling it a “bait question” is fine, but it has a bad image, doesn’t it? Maybe it would sound better to use the English and call it a “fishing question”... Though that might be even worse lol. Taro

① “Trolling” is internet slang for posting false information just to enjoy people’s reactions. In this case, the questioner included a lot of information, so people may have suspected that it was either a made-up story by someone familiar with the situation, or that another person was pretending to be someone who fit the questioner’s description. ② Apparently, sex drive does decline, but both the baseline level of libido and the way it declines vary from person to person. Sex drive is an extremely powerful force, and its strength has a major impact on someone’s personality. If a highly sex-driven person suddenly lost their libido one day, I think their personality and character would change dramatically as well. To begin with, if a man had a low sex drive, he probably wouldn’t register with a club or pay a reasonable allowance to meet women. If the man’s sex drive declined to a moderate level, it’s highly questionable whether he would continue to be a “kind, easygoing person” toward women—or whether he would keep paying an allowance to meet the questioner in the first place. In any case, a person’s personality, habits, and behavior are shaped by many different factors. If you try to correct one aspect of someone’s personality, unexpected side effects can result. Also, constantly worrying about whether something like a partner’s sex drive—something you cannot control no matter what—can somehow be changed is a thought pattern that can easily lead to mental distress. Even in the same situation, some people are able to get through it without becoming mentally unwell. Of course, being unable to do so doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong with you. Still, once you’ve calmed down, it would be worthwhile to use cognitive behavioral therapy or something similar to work on distorted perceptions and the ways of thinking and interpreting things that are causing you pain.