Mental Health Blog - antidepressant treatment review

The work which led to the discovery of fluoxetine (Prozac) began at Eli Lilly in 1970.  17 years later, the FDA approved it!  Boy, things sure take a long time, don’t they?  There are millions of clinically depressed people in the world, with I being one of them.  Anyhow, 20 years ago, today, a break-through anti-depressant was unleashed to the masses.  It's now known to also alleviate:

• obsessive-compulsive disorder
• bulimia nervosa
• panic disorder
• premenstrual dysphoric disorder
• hypochondriasis
• body dysmorphic disorder

Funny thing is, I don’t think some of those disorders were known back in 1987.  Nevertheless - Happy Birthday, Prozac.  While you may’ve not been the first anti-depressant in the world, you did help open the doors.  In the sense of making it acceptable for people to take medicine, for clinical depression.  I never took you, but many of your future relatives I have digested.  And I’m happy to say that your kin has helped me, tremendously.