Can depression and anxiety disorder increase your sex drive?

I agree with Mark's answer - anxiety and particularly depression usually interfere negatively with sexual functioning. It mainly lowers libido (the drive to have sex). Anhedonia (the loss of pleasure of interest) is also one of the two obligatory signs of a major depressivd episode. read more

Thus anxiety and depression affect sex but they don't cause increase in libido. In depression one may become emotionally dependent. Thus depressives are also known as love addicts but it doesn't give any increased performance. In anxiety, one may become insecure and clingy. But it again doesn't increase performance. read more

Drugs that treat depression, Goodwin says, “can release sexual function from the grips of depression.” Still, many antidepressants can affect sex drive. “Medications can change sexual function,” says J. Michael Bostwick, MD, a psychiatry professor at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. read more

Depression and anxiety can make someone, women especially, feel ugly, both inside and out. That feeling of unattractiveness can spill over into your sex life and immediately put everything on hold. In order for one to want to be intimate and close to someone else, there has to be a certain level of love for themselves. read more