Anxiety/Depression

[Saldav]

Why do women experience anxiety/depression more than men?

[NixonRulz]

Why do women experience anxiety/depression more than men?

Probably just something else that they do in order to show men they can do everything better

[Kuma]

I am not sure women experience depression or anxiety more than men. I just think women may be more likely to acknowledge that they experience depression or anxiety more than men.

[NixonRulz]

Probably so they can show that they can get in touch with their feelings better than men ;)

[Saldav]

Probably so they can show that they can get in touch with their feelings better than men ;)

I doubt that!

[gypsylee]

Probably just something else that they do in order to show men they can do everything better

LOL. It's just a fact that we do ;)

I think suicide rates are higher in men.. Which suggests women tend to admit to depression (as someone said), talk about it, see doctors etc more. That's not a fact (unlike women being better lol) but it seems a reasonable assumption.

[Im-Suffering]

The gender roles have been exaggerated to where the individual loses touch with who he/she is. They become off balance or off center. For example,

When a woman is denied her femininity due to (being):

Suppressed
Put down
Closeted
Weakened
Masculinized
Criticized
Demeaned
Unjustly (unfairly) compensated for equal work
Enslaved
Trapped
Persecuted
Judged
Locked in their homes
Made to feel worthless
Abused
Trampled over
Lied to
Misled
Controlled

She finds her life force drained. And becomes despondent. Especially if this is long suffering. If the woman overly emphasizes her masculine side (personality) to compensate for the (lack) in a relationship or in the workplace, she loses the self, who she is, and the feminine-power is suppressed.

So we either have a woman stripped of power and dignity made to stay at home, cook, clean, and birth, or a woman forced to act like a man in an overly dominant workplace where sensitivity is replaced by sheer force.

A man is not able to give birth, and so he is out of touch with what birthing teaches. Carrying life, and the value of each individual. So man goes to war and kills, both in the battlefield and his profession where he uses money as a deadly weapon. He tries to capture the feeling a woman has in giving life, by taking it away, the other side of the coin. He is trying to feel, you see, one way or the other. To fill a void in himself, so to speak.

In any case there must be a balance. A woman must be free to express her femininity (in the world as well as the home), without that power she surely will become depressed. Locked in and afraid.

Man has suicidal thoughts because he himself kills, aggressively conquers, tramples and destroys his brothers. In guilt then he may regress into his feminine side and lose touch with who he is. Force his wife to compensate by becoming herself masculine, swapping roles, and throwing the balance completely off.

A woman is more than a mother, or wife. And a man more than a caveman at the entrance of his lair with a club. A good deal of anxiety can be attributed to this loss (and transfer) of power in both sexes. So this thread may lead to self discovery and healing for some of the readers here.