psychotropic drug
The Depression it is a psychic pathology that has accompanied man since the dawn of time, but for centuries, also due to the lack of knowledge about it, it has been treated with methods that are, to say the least, questionable.
Until the middle of the last century it was not at all rare that depressed subjects, mistaken for "crazy", ended up in an asylum.
But precisely in the 50s of the 1900s finally there was a turning point destined to change forever, for the better, the history of psychiatry and the approach to so-called "mental" diseases:the formulation of special medicines, ready to replace the useless and cruel "cages" that were asylums at the time.
More and more specific and selective molecules were developed from time to time to fight and heal depression, up to fluoxetine, in 1987. active ingredient of the very famous (and sometimes abused) Prozac .