Editing Antidepressant (section)

====Generalized anxiety disorder====
Antidepressants are recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) for the treatment of [[generalized anxiety disorder]] (GAD) that has failed to respond to conservative measures such as education and self-help activities. GAD is a common disorder in which the central feature is excessively worrying about numerous events. Key symptoms include excessive anxiety about events and issues going on around them and difficulty controlling worrisome thoughts that persists for at least 6 months.

Antidepressants provide a modest to moderate reduction in anxiety in GAD.<ref name="urlwww.nice.org.uk">{{cite web|url=http://www.nice.org.uk/nicemedia/live/13314/52599/52599.pdf|author=National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health and the National Collaborating Centre for Primary Care|title=Generalised anxiety disorder and panic disorder (with or without agoraphobia) in adults|work=NICE clinical guideline 113|date=January 2011|access-date=20 February 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021044157/http://www.nice.org.uk/nicemedia/live/13314/52599/52599.pdf|archive-date=21 October 2012}}</ref> The efficacy of different antidepressants is similar.<ref name="urlwww.nice.org.uk" />