Depression in Women

Recent studies have shown that women become depressed twice than men. In USA the number of depressed women is more than 12 Million and the number of male depression is more than 6 Million. Out of 8 women 1 woman is attacked by depressive illness. That does not mean that men do not get depressed. Depressive illness is also common in men as in women. But female depression is more diagnosed or frequently visible by doctors, family and friends.

Depression can affect at any age of female such as children, young girl, adult women and older women. Adolescent girls or children often experience depression for their family problems or sometimes inherit the depressive illness.

Sexual abuse and poor education are the main causes of depressive illness of young girl. Though young girl could be successfully come out of their depressive stage, but sometimes depression can come out as a severe illness in the later life.

Pregnancy, poor married relationship, divorce, unemployment are some of the reasons which can affect on their both personal and professional life and lead serious depressive illness. Especially for the service holder, women depression is very much common. Most often they become unable to handle home and office at same time which resulted in poor family relationship.

But the all age group of depressed women do not react in same manner. They react differently at different age. Such as a depressed child may refused to go the school, or all time feels sick. Similarly the depressed young girl may suffer from feeling of loneliness or lack of interest or energy in any work.

However, a female may experience the symptoms of irritability, anger especially during her pregnancy. The older women also suffer from depressive illness. The older women naturally experience some disease or chronic pain at this age which can cause depression in their mental stage. Retirement from work, dependency on other people, loneliness, and menopause are highly important causes of older women depression.

Irritability, fatigue, and emotional reaction are some of the symptoms of depression which are the outcomes of hormonal fluctuations during the menstrual cycle of women. Although some women would be able to adjust with the stage whereas some other could not bear the side effects of this stage and develop depression.

The older women are often unaware about the outcome of depression. In spite of having depressive illness the women often become unable to identify the symptoms and consider them as the side effects of other illness.

So the older women should know the signs of depression so that they can get rid of this unusual situation. In older stage of life, depression often goes undiagnosed and gradually it goes at severe stage which is very dangerous because it increases the risk of suicidal thoughts and suicidal death.

The signs of depression are quite common between men and women. But there are certain factors which greatly affect the women than men such as women often experience seasonal depression in the month of winter due to cold.

In addition, the thyroid problem is very much common in women. The thyroid problem can be responsible for developing depressive disorder in women. Guilt feeling and lonely feeling are also frequently visible in women than men.

But whatever the depressive disorder is mild or several it can easily be treatable. If proper treatment could be taken, then women can successfully come out of depressive illness.

Many antidepressant medications and treatment centers have good records regarding depression recovery. Even General Practitioner can successfully treat mild depression. So, dear reader, if you are a woman and if you are developing depression then treat your illness as early as possible.