Trends: From Anxiety to Depression and Back Again
Thursday, March 25, 2010 - 16:14
in Psychology & Sociology
Poet W.H Auden dubbed the post-World War II nuclear era the `age of anxiety` and indeed, at the time, anxiety disorders were the most commonly diagnosed mental illnesses. Yet, by the 1990`s, American psychiatry was `Listening to Prozac` and instead of obsessing about angst, it focused its attention on depression.