Word: depressionitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ A third drug for dropping the blood pressure, mecamylamine (trade name: Inversine), sometimes causes severe anxiety or depression and is suspected of having triggered disabling mental illnesses. Other patients have developed chorea (muscular twitching), with tremor, slurred speech, and difficulty in controlling the joints; in some cases the symptoms...
¶ A fourth hypotensive, reserpine, may speed the appearance of peptic ulcers or worsen those already developed. It also commonly causes depression, often severe, and sometimes marked by delusions of persecution and suicidal impulses. And reserpine can hasten the death of patients with damaged hearts.
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