Consumer support groups offer a way to meet and talk with others who have had many of the same experiences. Your facility staff will tell you how to contact these groups and attend meetings. When you begin treatment most of your focus will be on your illness and what you have to do on a daily basis to feel better. Once the first stages are past, you will want to restore other parts of your life to what they were before the illness. Intimacy with another person and the physical expression of that intimacy is needed, possibly more now than before the illness.
Medications can contribute toward difficulties sometimes encountered.
Worry and feelings of inadequacy may affect physical performance. Talk to your physician about any difficulties you may have. If there is a physical basis, your doctor can help to find it. Your medications can be changed, if needed, or you can decide to try counseling on a regular schedule until progress is achieved. There are agencies that use a sliding scale fee schedule so that payment is within reasonable ability to pay.