Top 10 Causes of Female Depression

People face difficulties due to some unusual and tough situations of life. For example death of a close or loved person, poor relationship, financial crisis, or any bad childhood experience. These unusual events or any stressful events can weaken a person’s mental state which can lead the person to gradually develop depressive illness. Depression not only affect a person’s personal life, but also can affect his/her professional even the academic life.

Similarly there are some factors which can affect the women severely and can put them in depressive state. Different phases of life often bring negative and severe changes in a woman’s life. For example loss of job or failures of study are the most common factors which can trigger depression in the young female.

Moreover a woman can develop depression due to poor marital relationship or separation. Some women also could be attacked by depression at their middle age due to post menopausal period, retirement or financial crisis. Genetic factor is also a most common reason which can lead a female to experience depressive illness.

But whatever the reason is behind the depressive disorder, this can affect a woman’s life and her thoughts, emotions, sleep, appetite and behavior severely.  All the female should be aware of the factors or reasons which can trigger depressive disorder among them so that they could take precautions and successfully beat those stressful events or any unusual situation.

Here are some possible reasons and factors which often become responsible for female depression:

1.     Genetic:

Most of the children often inherited the depressive illness from their parents or siblings. If the parents had a depressive disorder then it may affect their children. Even during pregnancy if the mother become depressed then it will certainly affect the upcoming child and it also could affect the child in the adulthood.

Genetic research has shown that the possibility for developing the depression can be resulted from the combination of multiple genes and environmental factors. But it does not mean that every person will inherit the depression from parents or genetic is the only reason for the female depression.

2.     Brain Chemistry:

Depression also can take place within women due to changes in the brain chemical. Depression brings massive changes in the brain chemistry of neurotransmitters or serotonin which can affect greatly in women's behavioral pattern or mood and create the symptoms of depression like, irritability, mood disorder, change of appetite, insomnia among women. According to the study, hormonal imbalance directly affect the brain chemistry which puts the women into depressive illness during their different stages of life.

3.     Separation or Divorce:

Poor marital relationship is the most common reason for female depression. Poor relationship with husbands could lead divorce or separation which can puts the women into depression. This depressive illness can ranges to major disorder which is very harmful for the women.

The major depressive disorder can bring suicidal thought in the woman’s mind. After divorce or separation a woman has to perform all duties alone. A working woman has to maintain both home and office concurrently which can make her very stressful as a result she might be attacked by depressive disorder.

4. Retirement or Unemployment:

Retirement or unemployment especially affects the elderly women. In the middle age, retirement from job  could become responsible for the depressive illness of elderly women. In this age, the women have to financially dependent on others as well it breaks their regular routine. Most of the elderly women are being unable to handle this situation and become severely depressed.

5. Puberty:

Puberty stage starts at adolescences period. In this stage the girls often become depressed. Puberty stage brings some physical and mental changes in their life. Some of the girls could not adjust with these changes and become shattered. As a result they suffer from depressive disorder.

6. Pregnancy:

It is one of the most featured reasons of female depression. During pregnancy the women always deserve extra care and love from family members. If any pregnant woman deprived from this love and care then she might gets depressed which is both risky for mother and child. Even during this pregnancy stage, fear of death is the common symptom among many depressed pregnant women.

7. Postpartum Depression:

In most cases women develop depression during new motherhood. After becoming a mother a female could experience “baby blue’ which often leads her to develop depression which is known as postpartum depression. It often happens that after giving birth a child, the women suffers from elevated mood or mood disorder. At this stage the women may experience some physical or hormonal changes.

Moreover a mother also has to deal with some new responsibilities or she has to fulfill extra care towards her child. These all changes and new responsibility of life lead the women to develop depression in this period.

Even some of the husbands do not show any extra care or love toward their wives and this negligence can create depression and anxiety among the women.

Postpartum depression can put the women in the riskier stage and stay for longer period. Sometimes pregnancy depression also could be responsible for postpartum depression. It will not only affect the mother but also will affect the child. Most of the depressed mothers show negligence and irritation toward their child which can be very dangerous for the children.

8. Premenstrual Difficulties:

Before menstruation period, the women can develop the signs of depression. For example, the women could behave in a hostile or aggressive mood with everybody. She also could be attacked by the feelings of hopelessness or loneliness at this stage. Before the menstruation period the symptoms or signs of depression are referred as premenstrual dysphoric disorder. At this stage of life the women may behave or react in different manner which is not their general behavior. Though in this premenstrual period hormonal changes are not common, but this period could brings some mental difficulties among the women which are responsible for their depressive illness.

9. Menopause Period:

Menopause stage does not create depressive illness itself. But in this stage the women experiences some hormonal changes which may lead the women to build depression in them.

10. Thyroid:

In the middle stage of life, most of the women experience thyroid problem. Thyroid is not only cause of depressive illness. But if any female has thyroid problem then she may suffers from some signs and symptoms of depression like irritability, anger, loneliness, weight change, grief etc.