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Originally Posted by Lateralus
Then why is depression and other mental disorders significantly more common in women?
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Maybe it's just because it's more reported with women? Men are much less open about their emotional problems.
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That's from Gender differences in unipolar depression: An update of epidemiological findings and possible explanations. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. 2003;108(3):163–74. doi:10.1034/j.1600-0447.2003.00204.x. PMID 12890270.
I'm not saying that women suffer more than men, I think that both genders suffer equally and in different ways, it's just interesting that depressive and emotional disorders are statistically more common in women and that perhaps hormonal imbalance has some kind of bearing on it and the fact that women do have to deal with regular hormonal craziness.
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All I'm really saying is that regardless of who is more likely to have mental issues, women are less likely to act on psychotic impulses and at least compared to men exhibit better self control. They're more likely to sob at a funeral sure but I don't think simply being very emotional is being ubstable. That's actually pretty healthy.
Also stuff like harmonal changes is a biological/mood thing. I'm talking more specifically about mental disorders like psychopathy, a total lack of empathy. It's people with these problems who tend to be the most destructive and dangerous. And antisocial personality disorders are sigificantly more common with men.