Depression and Hypersexuality

I thought of this conversation the other day when I bumped into this forum thread:

http://www.depressionforums.org/forums/Hypersexual

and there is a lot of literature associating depression and bipolar disorder with hypersexuality.....

In this article, there is reference to hypersexuality being a side effect of some of the treatment for Parkinson's...

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/558276

What I'm saying here is: There may be some other really compelling reason that a person might feel driven to go out and find some physical gratification outside the home....

In my limited experience a lot of these people also have a precipitating event: death, family crisis, other trauma, which might trigger some level of depression.... either the depression itself or the drugs used to treat it are not unheard of to cause a change in sex drive.....and it is pretty clear where this might lead....