Women are more prone to depression

I think it is also a spiritual response to what may or may not be going in the persons life. I look at my life and I could get really depressed thinking about it but I am not. I have a peace and joy about where I am at and what I am or am not doing.

I think its because women are more emotional and sentimental and sometime overthink things

I agree with the reasons you give for women getting depression. I have had depression for as long as i can remember. Probably as early as 12. I was diagnosed with severe depression with panic attacks in 2004. Chronic depression before that. Women have more of a problem with hormones and emotions too. Men keep it bottled up and end up having heart attacks.

Usually i think rav, women who gets depressed easily are the housewives. That's because they don't have money of their own, to buy whatever they would want for themselves too. I can say that, because i also experienced being a housewife for more than 4 years after i resigned from my long time job. During those times i sometimes experience being depressed because i don't go out of the house since i have no money of my own to shop for new clothes or whatever i like. I have to ask money from my husband whenever i would like something. And sometimes i will be declined because it's not within his budget. But since i started working again, i regained my confidence and never felt depressed at any time. If i feel lonely, i shop. It's therapeutic.

I think not only working people, but women who are at home ,i mean housewives are also getting into depression these days. The reason may be, they are always at home looking after house hold work, but they are well educated too, so when they compare themselves with the working women ,they may feel/think all their education is wasted ,and restricted in their life. The older generation women were happy with house hold work , especially in India, but now every women in India want financial independence. So this may prone them to depression. As they feel ,they didn't achieve anything in life. But i wonder , why only Indian women are more prone to depression? I mean in terms of percentage, which is high than other countries, as the article stated. And one more point ,which i would like to point out. We have many restrictions in India regarding women, no matter how much we are educated and in high position , we are or have to follow those and women are not given freedom in certain issues, this also may lead to depression. For us the society comes first, and end of everything, our life depends on what the so called society thinks? Even if women is working ,she doesn't have freedom ,in what she want to do, i have seen this recently. especially in India. Where as in other countries , may not be 100% but to some extent ,women are free to decide what they want and how they want to live.

[b][u][i] Hello there! My dear mylotter friend respected ravisivan sir [/b][/u][/i] I do admit with your statement “Women are more prone to depression". The basic reason is that women are more sensitive and are not so stronger emotionally as compare to men. [b][u][i]Have a nice day and thanks. smtrsv[/b][/u][/i] Friday October 12, 2012.

Personally this is interesting. There are a lot of Men now being diagnosed with this over yrs. past, partly because so many people tend to want to hide it. I have had problems myself on and off over the yrs. due to past trauma and abuse. But too many times the main problem is hiding their feelings until they explode, and often this can be quite dangerous, and makes it worth trying to find ways to get more people the help they deserve.

hello ravi, Partly I agree that women are prone to depression compared to men. Partly I don't agree that it is caused by responsibilities. It depends on how everyone treat and consider their existence. I believe that women has more responsibilities especially when it comes to family eg. taking proper care of the kids, elders and her husband, taking care of household chores and needs and being the primary absorber in times of crisis/troubles/trials...not to mention how women suffer abused mentally/emotionally/physically compared to men. But, if we have at peace with the Lord (either men or women) we take everything lightly and cast/trust the rest to God. Just my opinion (speaking from my own experience)

Ravi bhai I agree with your saying about women and depression, but there are so many reasons for this, money is a factor no doubt, but family problems like relation with other family members like MIL, DIL, health issues.. Where both hubby and wife work, this causes more problems, they don't have time for each other.......

i agree certainly in a way its yes and its must be proven scientifically also and they tend to be more depressed for some reasons

This is a great topic. Most don't realize why women are more vulnerable to depression. You gave some good background here. Thanks.

I read also something related to that. But that is a nice to know information so we can educate ourselves on how to better handle depression and avoid the occurrence. Maybe because of the current economic condition all over the world, people tend to be more depressed especially women usually are those expose to all sorts of maltreatments, and there is something on their genes that makes them more emotional.Thanks

Ravi, nice to hear about this news, so women's in our country were depressed a lot compared with men. I read out the article and know about more information

I have seen this issue as well but I have also seen men fall very hard into depression. While women do shoulder burdens, if men are married and are considered to be the bread winners of the household, losing a job or lost credibility can be devastating to a man's state of mind. I have seen friends be depressed chronically through life, just because they have had ongoing trials that do not allow them to feel satisfied. I agree that having God in our lives does make us appreciate the smaller things and waking up each day as opposed to only looking to material wealth or vices to complete life. I think that when women are asked to do things that they are not built to do, they only appreciate the ability, the satisfaction, the moral character building, etc if they have God to lean on.

ravisivan I think the modern generation of young women want it all husband kids a great job and the latest gizmos and beware when they face reality and even with two jobs they arenot going to be able to buy the latest cellphone,laptops, notebooks, etc etc and they feel depressed as they want it all and not everyone can afford it all.I think its time they learned to appreciate what they have and appreciate that job and those great kids and that hard working husband and forget about longing for expensive electronic gadgets they cannot quite afford.its as if the standard of living we had growing up is thought poor and they want it all and get depressed as they feel its necessities all those electronic toys. they should try being grateful for what they have as in other countries people think we live pretty damned good. lol.

I stayed in this motel ran by people from India. Boy they sure believe for lack of a better word, or go by, the social class system. I was writing a letter in their motel lobby and I was told it was only for having breakfast. The Indian manager was telling my son a little later that he didn't want us talking to other patrons who owned a $35,000 vehicle. I was made to feel very badly and he upset me terribly when I was shewed out of the lobby. That motel made like over $1,000 from us. We ended up having to stay there like 5 weeks. He made me feel like I wasn't good enough to talk to other people staying at the motel. Now when I think of that guy - I really don't like him at all. Sorry I got off the subject. I think the class system is a big cause of depression. People shouldn't be made to think they aren't as important if they have less money and things.

Not only do I think that the burdens that so many women are facing in their lives is one of the reasons that there are so many women that suffer from depression in comparison with men that suffer from depression. I also think that another reason that there are so many women that suffer from depression is because of the differences in hormones that women have in their bodies when compared to the hormones of men.

Hi ravisivan: Although I didn't know about a medical research on this subject I can understand this information. My mom is usually more worried about the problems we have to deal everyday in my house. This is probably because women usually care more about their family and the problems they have to face in their house while men even if they are responsible too could ignore these things and feel less concerned about the daily problems that happen in the house. At the same time, women are usually more sentimental than boys. ALVARO

Yes, I think that much is asked of women. They need to be more sensitive, they have to be the better kid, like to take care of their male brothers even if they are not the oldest, some teach their daughters to accept cheating, if a girl wants to date and enjoy life until 25 if she has many boyfriends she's called names... it's hard. We got be strong and follow whatever we want to do cause it's in the end it's just sexism created by society, women can do everything man can.

Hi, You are right. Women are more prone to depression because they are very sensitive and emotional than may. Women also have the tendency to cry easily than men. I think working women have more responsibilities. They have to look after their family and work outside.