HLTHAGE 2G03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Antisocial Personality Disorder, Hegemonic Masculinity, Postpartum Depression
29 Oct 2017
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Sources of difference: 1) real difference in well being and psychopathology, based on psychological differences. If you assume mental illness is somatic (diseased brain, hormone imbalance) then yes men and women experience mental illness in different ways - based on biology: e. g. History: post ir, belief that women inherently more mentally ill than men, women being more inferior to men for the last 200 years, fragile . It"s not your fault - protected them: those being diagnosed were diagnosed (e. g. suffragettes, women who had premarital sex, women who defied femininity norms, etc, freud: painful memory and though converted into bodily symptoms. Gender and mental health in the modern world. Female depression - internalized behaviours (guilt, sadness, worthlessness), somatic symptoms. Male depression - exhaustion, irritability, restlessness, anhedonia: perhaps women express depression though mood and body complaints, ment turn to substance abuse.
