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Possible antidepressant effect of oral contraceptives: case report
The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
|August 1, 1984
Abstract:
An oral contraceptive was used successfully to treat recurrent premenstrual depressions and a subsequent major depressive episode in a 20-year-old woman. The relationship between premenstrual and major depressions is explored and the overlapping CNS effects of gonadal steroids and classical antidepressants are discussed.