Trends: From Anxiety To Depression And Back Again (Medical News Today)

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 1990s, American psychiatry was “Listening to Prozac” and instead of obsessing about angst, it focused its attention on depression. Now, however, a new article in the The Milbank Quarterly by sociologist Allan …