Try to remember what your hormones were doing to you when you were a teenager. Remember those first flushes of desire. Those awkward and revelatory introductory experiences of pleasure. Think of everything you were trying to understand about yourself and your body, everything cool and terrible and constantly changing about it.
Now imagine you have depression or anxiety. Okay, now imagine you are fortunate enough to be getting competent mental health care, and you and your providers agree you'll take medication to help with your depression or anxiety. But this prescription may also affect your burgeoning, still-figuring-it-out sexual drive and function. And yet, nobody's talking to you about that part.
