Why do women experience depression two times more often than men

Depression - one of the most common mental disorders, it affects more than 300 million people.

Both sexes are subject to mental illness, and men can also get sick. But women suffer from depression more often. Major Depression Men: 8.5% of women compared with 4.7% of men.

Because women have a special hormonal background
When it comes to women's mood, many people have a desire to write off everything on physiology and the notorious PMS, from which all the ills.

Because women can give birth
The statistics of morbidity is also affected by a purely female variant of depression: postpartum. It's not about the banal fatigue and lack of sleep, which probably all parents are experiencing, but about a protracted state with all the signs of depression that appeared just after the birth.

Because it's so accepted
It is believed that women react to everything that happens to them, much brighter than men. Therefore, they pay more attention to their feelings and give them a way out.