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antidepressants

  1. Drugs that prevent or relieve the symptoms of depression. Various psychological disorders are treated with antidepressants.


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Notes

Although there are many antidepressant drugs now in use, the best known is Prozac ®.

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Example Sentences

SSRIs are the most widely prescribed class of antidepressants.

In a turn that vindicates Aldous Huxley, one in ten Americans ingests their daily Soma supplement in the form of antidepressants.

Jacintha, 46, spent days in intensive care and was put on a course of antidepressants for nine months.

Many of those who die have alcohol, antidepressants, and/or pain medications in their bloodstreams at death.

The self on antidepressants becomes the only self they know.

At the time of this writing, the most widely prescribed antidepressants are the tricyclics.

The main advantage of ECT is that it acts much faster than any of the antidepressants.

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