By Brant Wenegrat

Seeing that precedent days, physicians have believed that ladies are in particular liable to convinced psychological health problems. modern examine confirms that girls are certainly extra weak than males to nervousness, melancholy, a number of character, and consuming problems, and several other different types of what was once known as hysteria. Why are those issues extra widely used in girls? Brant Wenegrat convincingly asserts that women's extra probability stems from an absence of social energy. He studies women's social energy from an evolutionary and cross-cultural standpoint and areas psychological issues within the context of evolution and societal association. during this accomplished examine psychological issues ordinarily linked to girls, Brant Wenegrat convincingly asserts that women's extra hazard stems from a scarcity of social strength.

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22 Page 22 Family and treatment studies suggest that panic and agoraphobia share etiologic factors with depressive disorders. Munjack and Moss, for example, found that first-degree relatives of agoraphobics with panic attacks had a 38 percent risk of depressive disorder, compared with a 14 percent risk for relatives of patients with simple phobias. 26 Exposure and antidepressants are effective for agoraphobics. 27 Anxiety disorders are sometimes associated with premenstrual syndrome, suggesting that reproductive hormones play a role in their genesis.

Mores encouraging male violence against women are still a significant factor decreasing women's real and perceived social power. 53 Many of these assaults are so-called date rapes, which courts only recently defined as real crimes. Wife beating is still widespread, and many wives are threatened if they try to leave their marriages.

Antisocial and alcoholic men, in particular, have sometimes been thought to ward off their feelings of depression with criminal acts and drinking. 9 Antisocial behavior and alcoholism are almost unknown among Amish men. Amish men and women, unlike men and women in the general population, were found to be equally likely to complain of depressive symptoms. Possibly, the men who would be criminals or alcoholics in other populations were merely depressed in the Amish. However, as I noted, there are methodological problems with the Amish study.

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