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Article: An onslaught of SSRI antidepressants has shifted depressive illness definitions.
- Article from:
- Drug Week
- Article date:
- February 27, 2004
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2004 FEB 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- An onslaught of SSRI antidepressants has shifted depressive illness definitions.
"This study examines how selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressants have played a contributing role in expanding categories of women's ''mental illness'' in relation to categories of ''normal'' behavior. We hypothesized that between 1985 and 2000, as premenopausal dysphoric disorder (PMDD), postpartum depression, and perimenopausal depression were increasingly treated with SSRIs, popular categories of depressive illness expanded to encompass what were previously considered normative women's life events such as motherhood, ...