Researchers have known for years that women are about twice as likely to be diagnosed with depression as men, with depression being the leading cause of disease burden among women.
Women are nearly twice as likely as men to be diagnosed with depression. Depression can occur at any age. Some mood changes and depressed feelings occur with normal hormonal changes.
Although clinically depressed women generally endorse higher levels of depression than men,[4 ,5 ,6] review of data from large epidemiological studies found that the prevalence of somatic depression, but not pure depression, distinguished women from men.
The fact that increased prevalence of depression correlates with hormonal changes in women, particularly during puberty, prior to menstruation, following pregnancy and at perimenopause, suggests that female hormonal fluctuations may be a trigger for depression.
Women limbic area of brains, which control emotions and memories, are highly active. It makes it difficult to forget a bad incident and negative emotion. Women are not really good at letting go of a situation, their brain keeps on replaying the same event again and again, which makes them sad.
Today, women are three times more likely than men to experience common mental health problems.
In terms of absolute strength – that is, without regard for body size, weight or composition – the average man tends to be considerably stronger than the average woman. Specifically, the absolute total- body strength of women has been reported as being roughly 67% that of men.
Overall women have it harder than men. Women go through many different changes with their bodies that impact them on a daily basis. Although there may be arguments that men have it hard, women definitely have it harder.
For example, depression is more common among women than men. The median age of onset for depression is 32 years, meaning that half of people who will ever have a depressive episode will have had their first episode by this age.
Because women experience hormonal fluctuations regularly, and because they go through more intense hormonal changes at specific times in life, their risk of depression is biologically greater. Depression rates in women are particularly high during major life events that involve hormonal changes.
According to new CDC data [9.8 MB, 89 pages] released today, nearly 3 in 5 (57%) U.S. teen girls felt persistently sad or hopeless in 2021—double that of boys, representing a nearly 60% increase and the highest level reported over the past decade.
Women (10.4%) were almost twice as likely as were men (5.5%) to have had depression. Every day, women face many different stressors in both their personal and professional lives.
Women are twice as likely to be diagnosed with an anxiety disorder, and the prevalence of anxiety disorders is significantly higher for women (23.4 percent) than men (14.3 percent).
Men are more likely to recognise and describe the physical symptoms of depression (such as feeling tired or losing weight) than women. Men may acknowledge feeling irritable or angry, rather than saying they feel low.
Over 6 million men suffer from depression per year, but male depression often goes underdiagnosed. More than 3 million men in the US have panic disorder, agoraphobia, or any other phobia.
It is now recognized that there are no significant sex differences in general intelligence, though particular subtypes of intelligence vary somewhat between sexes. While some test batteries show slightly greater intelligence in males, others show slightly greater intelligence in females.
The onset of adolescence, generally between 12 and 14, is the hardest age for a teenage girl. The hormones of puberty cause her to feel her emotions more intensely but she has not yet developed the reasoning skills to know how to handle them.
This is backed up by Marissa Harrison, a psychologist from Pennsylvania State University who thinks that women are much more cautious when it comes to love, while men tend to fall in love harder and faster. Studies show that a man's requirements to fall in love are significantly less stringent than those of a woman.
However, when it comes to health, men are biologically weaker. Men are more likely to experience chronic health conditions earlier than women and have shorter lives. In almost all countries around the world, women outlive men.
Among humans, women's life span is almost 8% on average longer than men's life span. But among wild mammals, females in 60% of the studied species have, on average, 18.6% longer lifespans.
According to the findings of this study, females are more flexible than males. The stiffness of female muscles is less than that of males.
Females face childhood abuse more frequently than males, also making dissociative identity disorder more likely to occur in the female population. Individuals who are victims of past violence and mistreatment are at elevated risk of developing dissociative identity disorder.
Depression. Impacting an estimated 300 million people, depression is the most-common mental disorder and generally affects women more often than men.