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Overall rates of psychiatric disorder are almost identical for men and women but are different in mental illness patterns. Depression is the most common women's mental health and proves to be more persistent in women than men. Now take into the fact that men don't see treatment at the rate of women. I believe this may skew the research a bit.
Men are also more likely to use alcohol to deal with mental health issues. Not to say women don't use substances to deal with their depression. Untreated depression across genders is the leading cause of alcohol and substance abuse.
Depression can't go untreated, will come out sideways one way or another. It is a disease just like any other, but we have shame around it. Often, we feel crazy. Sometimes we are told we are crazy or label ourselves as crazy. I know I did.
Contributing Factors to Depression
According to the research on depression and anxiety in women, it has a great deal to do with our gender as a whole. It is significantly related to interconnected and co-occurrent risk factors such as gender-based roles, stressors, and negative life experiences and events. These include gender-based violence, socioeconomic disadvantage, low income, income inequality, low or subordinate social status, and rank and unremitting responsibility for others' care. And I have to add to this the lifetime of hormonal shifts we go through in pregnancy, perimenopause, and menopause.
The high prevalence of sexual violence to which women are exposed and the correspondingly high rate of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) following such violence renders women the largest single group of people affected by this disorder, even more, significant than what is suffered by soldiers.
The reason I'm telling you all these things is to help you understand the contributing factors behind female depression and to eliminate the stigma and the shame that often surrounds depression or other mental health issues that women face. It is also to show you that depression must be dealt with on many levels. Medication is undoubtedly necessary for the chemical imbalance in the brain, but these underlying factors behind female depression require us to come at it from several angles.
If you've been listening to my podcast, you know that I suffer from depression and went to see my first psychiatrist in my early 20's. But it has only been in the last 5 years of this 27-year journey with this disease that I have been appropriately diagnosed and given the proper medication. I've made so many mistakes in this journey that I could do another podcast just telling you all of them, but I won't bore you with the details.
In this episode, I want to share what I've learned with some simple, not easy ways, to get through this journey, no matter where you are today. Hopefully, you'll learn from my mistakes and be able to tackle your depression with more success.
Complete show notes to this episode can be found at http://reviveyourmidlifemarriage.com/36
Overall rates of psychiatric disorder are almost identical for men and women but are different in mental illness patterns. Depression is the most common women's mental health and proves to be more persistent in women than men. Now take into the fact that men don't see treatment at the rate of women. I believe this may skew the research a bit.
Men are also more likely to use alcohol to deal with mental health issues. Not to say women don't use substances to deal with their depression. Untreated depression across genders is the leading cause of alcohol and substance abuse.
Depression can't go untreated, will come out sideways one way or another. It is a disease just like any other, but we have shame around it. Often, we feel crazy. Sometimes we are told we are crazy or label ourselves as crazy. I know I did.
Contributing Factors to Depression
According to the research on depression and anxiety in women, it has a great deal to do with our gender as a whole. It is significantly related to interconnected and co-occurrent risk factors such as gender-based roles, stressors, and negative life experiences and events. These include gender-based violence, socioeconomic disadvantage, low income, income inequality, low or subordinate social status, and rank and unremitting responsibility for others' care. And I have to add to this the lifetime of hormonal shifts we go through in pregnancy, perimenopause, and menopause.
The high prevalence of sexual violence to which women are exposed and the correspondingly high rate of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) following such violence renders women the largest single group of people affected by this disorder, even more, significant than what is suffered by soldiers.
The reason I'm telling you all these things is to help you understand the contributing factors behind female depression and to eliminate the stigma and the shame that often surrounds depression or other mental health issues that women face. It is also to show you that depression must be dealt with on many levels. Medication is undoubtedly necessary for the chemical imbalance in the brain, but these underlying factors behind female depression require us to come at it from several angles.
If you've been listening to my podcast, you know that I suffer from depression and went to see my first psychiatrist in my early 20's. But it has only been in the last 5 years of this 27-year journey with this disease that I have been appropriately diagnosed and given the proper medication. I've made so many mistakes in this journey that I could do another podcast just telling you all of them, but I won't bore you with the details.
In this episode, I want to share what I've learned with some simple, not easy ways, to get through this journey, no matter where you are today. Hopefully, you'll learn from my mistakes and be able to tackle your depression with more success.
Complete show notes to this episode can be found at http://reviveyourmidlifemarriage.com/36