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Answered Jan 10, 2016 · Author has 6.5k answers and 7.9m answer views
Yes.
Antidepressants can change our emotional, sexual, and romantic functionality. They can compromise our ability to feel or behave or think normally, and have precipitated the ending of thousands (or even millions) of romantic relationships. Some online messageboards and other places that people communally share their experiences can collect hundreds or even thousands of stories reflecting on this particular problem.
Many people feel quite different on antidepressants, and some feel that it inhibits or totally destroys their ability to be emotionally intimate in the ways they once were. Sometimes they change relationships, sometimes they feel unable to be attached at all, and sometimes they uncharacteristically pursue risky, unfulfilling, or damaging interactions.
Changes in personality and biological functionality from antidepressant use, like the occurrence of impotence, anxiety, mania, sedation, demotivation, or other altered experiences or activities can all directly impact romantic relationships. This can sabotage healthy relationships even when romantic feelings and attachments are not seriously impaired by the drugs, especially as the disintegration of other aspects in relationships generally starts causing problems with emotional intimacy.
Radical and unprecedented changes in romantic relationships specifically are connected to antidepressant use in a worrisome portion of the patient population, and the other possible side effects of antidepressants, like anhedonia, inorgasmia, and protracted withdrawal can all impede or end romantic relationships in situations where the immediate effects on emotional intimacy are not strong enough to do.
You can read about the experiences of others in medical journals, news articles, and side effects support websites. Doing a quick Google search like this yielded some great starting places in all 8 of the top 8 slots:
5. beyondblue
I also recommend articles like this, which reviews some of the literature and explores various aspects of antidepressant-induced emotional changes in the romantic context: http://www.researchgate.net/prof...
