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Women And Depression: Made For Each Other

Depression seems to be particularly attracted to women all over the world without any exception whatsoever. Men get depressed too, usually following a major upheaval in their lives, or following a heart attack, or when they enter andropause (the masculine of menopause) at around 50 plus years old. Women however, have a love-hate relationship with depression through their lives.

Why Women And Depression Are Inseparable?

If you look closely, you will observe that women’s life is always in flux of hormones. When they are born, their body is flush with hormones from their mother’s body (and so is the male baby), then comes the puberty when hormones change the girl into a woman; then comes the reproductive period where, every time she becomes pregnant, the hormones are back in high dosage, and after birth they are totally withdrawn. No sooner than this phase finishes that the menopause starts and will carry on from 5-15 years, again with the help of hormones.

This come-and-go hormones situation is what ties up women and depression so well. Women experience their first bouts of depression at puberty when they blame it on the many changes that their bodies are going through. Then comes the depression caused by or rather after the birth of the baby (this type of depression is known as post-partum depression); this being caused by the hormones build-up during pregnancy and then total cut-off after the birth of the baby.

Again the women and depression combination will be obvious at the time of the onset of menopause, again due to hormone imbalance in the body, coupled with the fact that, with old age, women feel unwanted, worthless, un-loved, and so on. This is even more serious when the woman in question was an outstanding beauty in her youth.

In spite of the modern technology, so many really significant breakthroughs in medicine and cosmetic industry, nothing has been found yet which can break off the women and depression for too long. There is another factor which contributes to the women and depression aspect, and that is the fact the women mostly ignore their feeling, writing them off as unimportant.

Depression becomes a habit to women, and by and by it develops into chronic depression, which makes recovery very difficult, but, of course, not impossible. The first step towards cure and treatment is to recognize that you (the woman/ women) have a problem, and that the problem is an emotional one. No sooner you accept this fact that you are on your way to recovery!