PanicPhobia
11-29-2013, 05:35 PM
So if you read up on anxiety disorders and panic attacks, you see that it affects twice as many women as men. As a male, this makes me feel sort of emasculated (lol).
So I wonder, is this really true or is it a form of selection bias? In other words maybe it's just that men are more reluctant to seek treatment and thus are under reported in the "statistics?"
If that's not it and if more women truly do have anxiety when compared to men, then it seems to me that hormones must be at play here.
Does anyone have any insight on this?
So I wonder, is this really true or is it a form of selection bias? In other words maybe it's just that men are more reluctant to seek treatment and thus are under reported in the "statistics?"
If that's not it and if more women truly do have anxiety when compared to men, then it seems to me that hormones must be at play here.
Does anyone have any insight on this?