Depression - Man or Woman?
By ccoriel
@ccoriel (571)
Philippines
27 responses
@aquariancore (608)
• United States
31 Dec 06
Studies show that woman suffer depression over men 2 to 1, but women are more likely to step forward about their problem. That makes it hard to say there is a true accuracy in study results. The true problem with depression is 80% of those that seek help do not follow through.
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@ssh123 (31073)
• India
14 Aug 06
Both men and women get depressions. It is woman who gets depression because of her being woman, the complications and implications she has to undergo. Man alo undergoes depression due to ill health, lack of welath, and due to psychology. One can overcome depression by meditation, engaging oneself with creative and constructive work.
@kellahinx (370)
• United States
8 Jan 07
Women get depressed about being a woman???!!!!! What I don't think I have ever seen anything misogynistic. By "the complications and implications she has to undergo" what do you mean? Do you mean being discriminated against or hormones or just the fact that she has to deal with her poor weak feamle form everyday.
It is true that both men and women get depression, but not for the reasons you are saying. Depression is most often caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain, but it looks different in men and women because the different sexes portray this imbalance differently. Say for instance when a woman is depressed she feels physically heavy and can't bring herself to be active. Whereas a man with the same chemical problem might feel his depression in muscle soreness and will get angry easily. These are just examples, I am not familiar with all of the differences in symptoms of depression, but I know that this is the case.
Also, clinical depression is a lot different than someone being bummed out because they aren't earning enough money. MOre often than not the real resaon for depression has a much deeper root. I glad that you can so easily pigeonhole the complexities of the human brain to peni5 envy and feelings of inadequacy. Thank you for even making Freud look like he had a pretty good understanding of women.
Now I am just going to go take my morphine to relieve my hysteria caused by by having a vagin@.
(that was sarcasm in case you missed it.)
@wiccan (347)
• Australia
9 Jan 07
studies show that clinically women get depressed more, this has been attributed to hormone fluctuations, however the rate of male depression in the western world is on the increase
@chocklitchip (472)
• Pakistan
8 Jan 07
women get more depressed coz they r the most sensitive ones around...
@angel_marie5 (1259)
• United States
8 Jan 07
both gender can have the feeling of depression but it is usually the woman that suffers most as having a very emotional feelings or weak in terms of bearing some problems.
@isha123 (104)
• India
7 Jan 07
in my opinion both man or woman are the same we can't say who get more depress. this is all because of circumstances that a human being gets depressed so we can't say it about man and woman because both are human being and we will find in our real life too. some personalities are like that who love to be depressed or look for a reason to be depress. it can be man or woman either of the two
@safiuddin (165)
• India
7 Jan 07
i think women are more depressed than men becausefor example if some thing happen in our house the who get depressed in my house r my mother and my sister. So with this ppoint of view i think think that women are more depressed.
@vyaasrad (565)
• India
7 Jan 07
depression is common fo both men and women ,when we come to reality womens are those who get more depressed
because they keep on loading their mind with responses and which becomes a burden
in case of men they get depressed because of their inferiority complex and stress in their job
@mariver101 (162)
• Indonesia
7 Jan 07
Equal to both. It depends again on how they handle their problems and how they accept it.
@bouncyball (88)
• Pakistan
7 Jan 07
hhhhhhmmmm...i think mens get more depressed than women.why??the answer is because men had to do much much work..he has to struggle to get money for his family, he has to monitor all the things happening in house and outside.
@buenavida (9984)
• Sweden
6 Jan 07
It is impossible to say, maybe there is some research but I learnt one interesting thing. Most people already know that depression often is lack of Omega3 fats in our brain and should be treated with cold presse fish oil. I recommend the gnld poduct.
One nurse that also is an expert on nutrition told us on a lecture that boys need three times more Omega3 than girls.
Maybe that goes for men too. Here we have some research to do so if anyone knows more, please inform us.
@freesoul (3021)
• Egypt
7 Jan 07
It depends on the person not the gender, the personality, life's experiences and emotional stability are main factors but i think usually women fall under more pressure than men and usually most women are more emotionally fragile than men so they stand bigger chances of falling into depression.
@mslenora (12)
• Australia
7 Jan 07
I feel women get more depressed than man as women tend to take on a lot more. They feel more responsible for things and sometimes things they have nothing to do with. I think women are more emotional and tend to take on more responsibilities than men.
