Dr. Daniel Freeman, the lead author of a UK study, found evidence that suggests women are 40 percent more likely to develop mental disorders than men.
A new UK study, led by Dr. Daniel Freeman, states that women are 40 percent more likely to develop mental disorders than men. The research also found evidence that women are 75 percent more likely to suffer from depression than men and 60 percent more likely to suffer from an anxiety disorder.
The findings of this research will later be published in Freeman's book "The Stressed Sex: Uncovering the Truth about Men, Women and Mental Health," which analyses the rate of mental illnesses between men and women. The study has also been published online by the Oxford University Press.
"This important issue has been largely ignored in all the debates raging about gender differences," Dr. Freeman stated on his website.
Dr. Freeman said that "because the conditions most affecting women were more common than those affecting men, overall mental health conditions were more common in women than in men, by a factor of 20 percent to 40 percent."
However, Freeman found that men were two and a half times more likely than women to report abuse disorders. Also the rate of disorders like ADHD and schizophrenia were not very different for men and women.
"There is a pattern within - women tend to suffer more from what we call 'internal' problems like depression or sleep problems," Dr. Freeman told The Guardian. "They take out problems on themselves, as it were, where men have externalizing problems, where they take things out on their environment, such as alcohol and anger problems."
