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Depression in Men and Women

The exact reason is unknown but it is believed that two thirds of depression sufferers are female. Research has a few proposals on why this may be the case. One theory is that women suffer more from depression as their hormone levels change at different stages during their normal life.

This happens in the menstrual cycle, pregnancy and menopause to name a few. Men do not have so many fluctuations of hormone levels so the hormones are usually more stable.

So it is believed that women are more at risk of exposure to depression than men. But any evidence to prove this is not solid.

It has been found that women who are adolescent or in adulthood suffer from depression twice as much as men.

However, males and females at university often see a different trend with the rate of depression being spread equally among both sexes.


This maybe because males and females share the same subjects and have equal chance of success and failure. Being male or female in this environment tends to be equal status, share the same surroundings and the human body has still yet to fully mature.

In some cases, the onset of depression can be triggered by any stressful event. Some research suggest that women may be under more stress than men and in turn, more likely to suffer from depression. But in real life, men and women will usually have no more or less bad news than their opposite counterpart.

And more research suggest that men and women cope with stress and stressful events in different ways. And the way a female will deal with a stressful episode is more likely to bring on full blown depression more than it would in a man.

In tests, students were asked how they would react to certain stressful situations. The males responded by saying that they would try to avoid the issue by distracting themselves with a physical activity. Women responded that would ask themselves why they were feeling this way and would seek out someone to talk to about their feelings.

Simply put, the men will try to do something to distract themselves while the women would concentrate and focus on the feelings.

So if by concentrating on the feelings and symptoms makes any depression worse, then this may be a reason why women suffer more than men from depression. But as mentioned earlier, there will always be exceptions to this rule, blowing this theory wide open.