Post: #1

Bitches be crazy.

"ATLANTA (CBS ATLANTA) – There is a gender gap for mental illness, with females being up to 40 percent more likely to develop some type of mental health condition than their male counterparts.

A new study to be published by Oxford University Press finds that women are nearly 75 percent more likely than men to have suffered from depression, and approximately 60 percent more likely to report an anxiety disorder.

The U.K. study was led by Dr. Daniel Freeman, who said his latest research set to appear in the book, “The Stressed Sex: Uncovering the Truth about Men, Women and Mental Health,” sets out to answer a simple but crucial question: are rates of psychological disorder different between men and women?


“This important issue has been largely ignored in all the debates raging about gender differences,” Dr. Freeman stated on his website.

Dr. Freeman said that because the conditions most affecting women were more common than those affecting men, overall mental health conditions were more common in women than in men, by a factor of 20 percent to 40 percent.

However, the study also found that men are more likely to report substance abuse disorders – around two and a half times more frequently than women. Conditions such as ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) and schizophrenia did not have statistically significant differences between adult males and females.

“There is a pattern within – women tend to suffer more from what we call ‘internal’ problems like depression or sleep problems,” Dr. Freeman told The Guardian. “They take out problems on themselves, as it were, where men have externalising problems, where they take things out on their environment, such as alcohol and anger problems.”

In the U.S., it appears that mental health diagnoses have spread across the gender gap, even for children. A recent study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that up to one in five American youngsters — about 7 million to 12 million, by one estimate — experience a mental health disorder each year."

http://atlanta.cbslocal.com/2013/05/23/s...-than-men/

   

Post: #2

I think men and women suffer from depression at similar rates, it's just under-reported because fewer men go to the doctor and demand medication.

When you consider serious mental illnesses like schizophrenia, that's almost impossible to live with so the rates will naturally be about the same.

Post: #3

(05-24-2013 12:11 AM)Hades Wrote:  I think men and women suffer from depression at similar rates, it's just under-reported because fewer men go to the doctor and demand medication.

When you consider serious mental illnesses like schizophrenia, that's almost impossible to live with so the rates will naturally be about the same.

I think you're probably right. I knew a lot of guys in the states who, at least at times, could be classified as depressed but never really voiced it as that and never sought any kind of help, myself included.

I'd venture a lot of this shit comes down to the foods we eat, lack of exercise, and too much alcohol.

Surely those variables are only part of it, but I find that my entire outlook on life changes when I don't drink - and even double so if I start exercising and eating right.

Beyond All Seas

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.
To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it, you'll be lonely often, and sometimes
frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." - Kipling

Post: #4

I believe that people who do not exercise their mental faculties on a daily basis are more inclined to get some sort of mental disease.
Weakness of the mind increases your likelihood to get a disease of the mind.

If you don't read books,try to figure shit out, or learn something new, you will start to feel like a zombie that only walk,eat and take a shit.

I have noticed that stupid people usually tend to do crazy things, (hoodrats,rednecks), is it due to their lack of knowledge?

If so it would make sense why there is a higher rate of nutcases among females than males, most girls don't spend their days learning anything; all they do is take pics of themselves,look at their own pics and text equally retarded human beings.

I'm far from having a whole lot of knowledge but to be honest the average person already seems crazy to me;

why are they fat? Don't they see how disgusting they look? Why do they watch tv so much? Why aren't they trying to improve their wealth? Why so dumb?

To me, people that walk around believing in satan or that you shouldn't have sex because god will be mad, or that If you don't follow a set of rules you will go burn somewhere are more vulnerable to mental diseases, they are living with a programing that is not in harmony with reality.

Post: #5

Is that crazy ass Jeannine Pirro in that pic?

Quote:Roman Polanski laments leveling of sexes as 'idiotic'[u]

CANNES, France (AP) — Roman Polanski says the birth control pill has had a "masculinizing" effect on women.

The director said the pill has "changed the place of women in our times," while talking to reporters Saturday at the Cannes Film Festival. He was there to premiere his film "Venus in Fur," adapted from the David Ives play.

Polanski said the leveling of the sexes is "idiotic" and lamented that "offering flowers to a lady" has become "indecent."

The film stars Polanski's wife, Emmanuelle Seigner, and Mathieu Amalric as an actress and theater director rehearsing an adaptation of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's 1870 novella, "Venus in Furs."

The film plays with gender roles, and features Seigner as a strong, feminine actress who comes to dominate her director.

Only a European male could say this publicly and not be vilified for it on his home soil. I would just LOVE to see the media explode at a prominent American male saying that here in the US...