14 DAY TRIAL // Courtesy of their having to juggle a tad too many roles, women are more likely than men to be affected by a mental health problem at some point in their lives.
In fact, Professor Daniel Freeman of the University of Oxford maintains that, according to his investigations, disorders ranging from depression to phobias are about 20-40% more common amongst women than they are amongst men.
Professor Daniel Freeman is fairly confident that these differences concerning the mental health of men and women need be linked to the latter's experiencing higher levels of stress.
According to Daily Mail, this stress is caused by the women's more often than not being left with no choice except figure out a way to be carers, homemakers and breadwinners, all at the same time.
“Increasingly, women are expected to function as carer, homemaker, and breadwinner - all while being perfectly shaped and impeccably dressed. It's certainly plausible that women experience higher levels of stress because of the demands of their social role,” the professor reportedly said.
“The biggest discrepancies occur in conditions for which we know the environment, rather than genes, makes the greatest causal contribution,” he went on to argue.
Some of the mental health issues allegedly experienced by women because of their leading rather stressful lives are as follows: depression, phobias, insomnia and eating disorders.
The same source informs us that, contrary to women, men are more likely to abuse either alcohol or drugs.
As well as this, the stress they become exposed to in their day-to-day life can cause them to develop anger problems.
Although said mental health problems appear to be more common amongst women, a considerable number of cases of men affected by them have also been reported over the years.
Professor Daniel Freeman's observations concerning the mental health of women are detailed in a book published this May 23.
The book is titled “The Stressed Sex: Uncovering the Truth about Men, Women, and Mental Health.”