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An onslaught of SSRI antidepressants has shifted depressive illness definitions.
2004 FEB 23 - (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, menstruation, or child birth," scientists writing in the journal Social Science & Medicine report.
"We quantified and qualified this expansion through an in-depth analysis of popular representations of depressive illness during the time period when SSRIs were introduced," wrote J.M. Metzl and colleagues, University of Michigan, Department of Psychiatry.
"Using established coding methods, we analyzed popular articles about depression from a mix of American magazines and newspapers spanning the years 1985-2000. Through this approach, we uncovered a widening set of gender-specific criteria outside of the ...
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