| inbluevt | Date: Sunday, 2013/08/04, 9:00 AM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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Women are more likely than men to suffer from depression. Women are more likely to suffer from anxiety, too, and sleep disorders, as well as a host of other emotional and medical problems. On the other end of the spectrum, men suffer more often from substance abuse issues and autism.
But as it turns out, mental health issues do not scale up measure for measure on both sides—for women are more likely than men to struggle under the weight of many emotional disorders.
Such are the findings of The Stressed Sex: Uncovering the Truth about Men, Women, and Mental Health, a new book by Daniel and Jason Freeman, out from Oxford University Press. Authored by two brothers—one a clinical psychologist, the other a writer—the book explores the how and why behind the finding that mental health problems plague men and women to different degrees. Daniel
Freeman, a psychologist and Oxford professor, says that he and his brother came across the topic indirectly. While working on a previous book on mental health problems, they noticed differences in the rates in which different emotional disorders affected the sexes. It suggests, he
says, “a major public health issue.
”Mental health can be a controversial subject—even defining what an emotional disorder is can be contentious—and looking at it through the lens of gender differences is more controversial still. (And not everyone agrees with the conclusions expressed in the first paragraph of this article—as the book points out, the World Health Organization says that women and men are about equally affected by emotional disorders.) Freeman concedes that the optics of the book jacket was a concern: “The
obvious danger,” he says, “was that we’d be viewed as two men labeling women as crazy.” (On the contrary, science-minded readers of both sexes will likely find the book fascinating, as I did, not simply because of the gender element, but because of the way it unpacks a complex subject.)
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