Background: Anxiety can be debilitating after a stroke. As with stroke trialists, intervention trials have treated anxiety as a homogenous disorder, ignoring the variety of treatment approaches for phobic and generalized anxiety. The present study was conducted to assess anxiety and depression following stroke. Materials & Methods: 124 patients of stroke of both genders were studied. Parameters such as type of stroke, underlying disease, and stroke onset were recorded. Results: Out of 87 patients, 48 were males and 39 were females. Type of stroke was infarct in 45 and hemorrhagic in 43, weakness side was right in 36, left in 38 and bilateral in 13 patients. Comorbid diseases seen were diabetes in 47, hypertension in 79, dyslipidemia in 61, previous stroke in 17, smoking in 37, alcoholism in 28 patients. The difference was non- significant (P> 0.05). Common risk factors for anxiety and depression in patients with stroke was male gender (1.76), dyslipidemia (0.57), infarction (2.34), hypertension (0.48), and smoking (0.32). The difference was significant (P< 0.05). Conclusion: Anxiety and depression are common after a stroke. Common risk factors were infarction, smoking, dyslipidemia, hypertension, and male gender.