ladies are you depressed if you are we have good news for you because a new
study
has proven that men are in fact as depressed
as women which goes against the almost everything
that psychologists have believed up until now a new study from the
University of Michigan
and Vanderbilt university has come out
and it overturns long accepted statistics that over their lifetime
women are seventy percent more likely
to have major depression than men we've got some numbers to show you
so this was assessed on the gender inclusive depression
scale 30 points 6 percent of men and thirty 3.3 percent of women experience a
depressive episode
in some point in their lives that's not a huge difference what are the things
that the researchers did was they expanded the list of things that
qualify as depression as depression which then included aggression subsidy
stubs dans abuse
risk-taking behavior so not all those things are normally associated with
depression per se but so by widening it
maybe they made the difference a little small
what's interesting about this is that you know for decades much
medical research was based on men because men were sorta easier to study
women had no additional menstrual problems at all that was like oh well we
have all these
a issues as well with gender bias and medical research as well i winner just
too difficult
but now find a seriously this happened but now
this particular study they they chose to widen out the idea of what constitutes a
symptom of depression
you know and said it being BZ a listless feelings of worthlessness all that by
expanding it to aggression
and other forms up self-destructive behavior that are more outgoing
I thought that was a fascinating shift and in the way that they approach to
press right so normally the things that they associate with depression or things
like difficulty sleeping feelings of guilt or worthlessness
which somehow that is something that may perhaps women feel more now you add this
end
and you you can you expand the number of people would actually qualify
and that's the whole point of this is it's part of a questionnaire to help
people
I assess for themselves whether not they might actually have a major depression
and should seek help for that
so if it helps more man and his more men really are depressed and if that helps
them
to get medical treatment then by all means this is good I just think it's
funny that people
are sure that they are in a major depression he fear
II bet in major depressions you are sure
you're in a major depression so if you're not sure
I'm not sure how major is maybe you're more in touch with your feminine side
yeah it was easier for you to no i i i think thats interesting in what you're
saying nice doggie
Google if this helps men I had to do you think a human being
I know you're a link to that are more like got to be there gender-neutral
yeah on but I do think though that when you expand the list in in
I don't think it's a fairly small is pretty substantive way including like
aggression and things like that
it it might be that those are the sort of the
outgrowths have depression but you are I think describing a bigger thing you're
not really just describing traditional depression
and so I think that keeping the same term is the biggest problem that I have
with it
is is is still just calling into question when really it looks like
you're describing something larger
that I mean look if men react in an aggressive way it's possible that women
also some cases reacted that way
and maybe what you're describing is actually something different yeah I
actually didn't know until I read this
study that that men that were thought of having left depression than women I
actually would have thought it was the reverse would you for
no I'm so I had I had known that the incidence of depression just overall
was believed to be higher in women in general but then when they are also more
likely to seek treatment man are more likely to feel ashamed or not willing to
yet or even go see the doctor the first floor tiling self-medicate North yes
tray and should shut it down just denied their motions and this is what happening
in
so it's a cultural shift potentially as well yeah I did notice the one
another think they list is a sign of depression men is
is working a lot which I thought was interesting as I couldn't
maybe I should seek help overworking I'm cause the passion maybe some teams like
the job