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Why depression affects more women
Depression affects more women. Depression is a persistent and debilitating disease that affects both women and men, but women experience depression at a rate almost double that of men.
According to surveys of doctors and psychiatrists, one in five women are at risk of having an episode during their life. Hormonal factors are primarily responsible in this matter such as menstrual cycle changes, pregnancy, abortion, postpartum period, pre-menopause and menopause.
Depression is a subtle condition, still stigmatized and difficult to deal with a thousand edges in which no single trigger but several factors pushing suffer. According to epidemiological studies, depression can affect any age, including girls, there is a higher incidence after puberty until the end of menopause. Read the rest of this entry »