This chemical creates bonding in individuals. Dopamine leads to increased production of oxytocin, but the number of receptors which any individual has is the basis for the depth of the emotional attachment. Any individual with fewer oxytocin receptors will have a shallower relationship. The anxiety hormones increase alertness, spur your action, give an extra spark. Stress hormones have a catabolic effect on the body.
Depression is anger turned inward.
The steroid pregnenolone restores normal levels of memory hormones in mice - Neurobiologist Eugene Roberts, City of Hope Medical Center, Duarte. Med Ctr Missouri. The individual who has the serotonin level which gives assertivness, confidence, vitality, low anxiety, also gives a chemical basis for inhibited ejaculation, which is secondary impotence. Sex strips away identities it take a lifetime to build. A naked aroused man is not a brain surgeon, or a University president, or a Methodist Bishop.